When is the Spring Festival in 2017? What is the origin of the Spring Festival?
Introduction: The Spring Festival is the New Year of the lunar calendar, and it is calculated according to the lunar calendar, so it is almost different every year. So what time is 2017? Do you know the several theories about the origin of the Spring Festival? Now, let’s explore it with the editor. A year's plan begins with spring, and the Spring Festival is an important traditional festival of ours. Do you want to know more about the Spring Festival? Come and take a look at the Spring Festival special topic carefully prepared by Mr. Shui Mo!2017 Spring Festival timeThe date of the 2017 Spring Festival is: January 28, 2017, the first day of the first lunar month, SaturdayThe Origin of the Spring FestivalThere are many theories about the origin of the Spring Festival. Among them, some of the more representative theories include that the Spring Festival originated from the La Festival, the Spring Festival originated from witchcraft rituals, and the Spring Festival originated from the Ghost Festival. However, the most widely accepted theory is that the Spring Festival originated in the Yu Shun period.One day more than 2,000 years BC, Shun ascended the throne and led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. From then on, people regarded this day as the beginning of the year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The dates of the Spring Festival in Chinese dynasties have not been consistent: the Xia Dynasty used the first month of the first lunar month as the first month, the Shang Dynasty used the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he stipulated that October was the first month. The Qin calendar was used in the early Han Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor Wu of Han's Taichu reign, that is, in 104 BC, astronomers Luoxiahong, Deng Ping and others formulated the Taichu Calendar, which changed the original October as the beginning of the year to the first month of the first lunar month. Later generations gradually improved it into the lunar calendar (i.e. the lunar calendar) we use today. Luoxiahong is also known as the "Spring Festival Old Man". Since then, China has continued to use the Xia calendar (lunar calendar, also known as the agricultural calendar) to date until the end of the Qing Dynasty, a total of 2080 years. The New Year's Festival is a day to get rid of the old and start the new. Although the New Year's Festival is set on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the New Year's Festival are not limited to this day. Starting from the Minor New Year’s Day on the 23rd (or 24th) day of the 12th lunar month, people begin to prepare for the New Year: sweeping the house, washing hair and bathing, preparing New Year’s utensils, etc. All these activities have a common theme, which is “saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.” The New Year Festival is also a day for offering sacrifices and praying for a good harvest. The ancients called the ripening of millet a "year" and a bumper harvest of grains a "great year." In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, there were already annual activities to celebrate the harvest. Later, offering sacrifices to heaven and praying for a good harvest became one of the main contents of the New Year customs; moreover, various gods such as the Kitchen God, the Door God, the God of Wealth, the God of Joy, the God of Wells, etc., were all worshipped by people during the New Year period. People use this to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. The New Year's Day is also a time for family reunions, family gatherings and ancestor worship. On New Year’s Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats the “family reunion dinner”, the elders distribute “lucky money” to the children, and the whole family sits together to “stay up all night”. At the beginning of the new year on the first day of the lunar year, firecrackers are set off, and the activities of bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year reach their climax. Each family burns incense to pay tribute to heaven and earth and to their ancestors, then greets their elders in turn, and then congratulates each other with relatives and friends. Summary: Through the above article, we know the time of the 2017 Spring Festival, and have a certain understanding of several theories about the origin of the Spring Festival. I hope you will like these contents. I wish you all good luck and all the best in 2017! |
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