In ancient times, New Year's Day, now known as New Year's Day, is one of the most important festivals in China.
1. The legend about New Year's Day.
Legend has it that in the prosperous era of Yao Shun, Yao did a lot of things for the people during his reign and was deeply loved by the people. After his death, he passed the throne to Shun, who had both moral and moral qualities. Yao also told Shun that he wanted to inherit the throne well, and when Shun was old, he passed the throne to Yu, who had made meritorious contributions to water control. After that, people regarded the day when Yao died, the day when Shun sacrificed heaven and earth and the first emperor Yao as the beginning of the year, and called the first month of the first month "New Year's Day", or "Yuan Zheng".
2. The difference between ancient and modern New Year's Day.
In ancient times, the New Year was called "Nian Shou", which refers to the first day of the first lunar month. People celebrate this day with firecrackers, ancestor worship, couplet writing, dragon lantern dance, etc.
Modern China's New Year's Day, according to the regulations, has become a custom and Xi for people across the country to celebrate festivals, most of the celebrations are such as New Year's Day parties, hanging slogans to celebrate New Year's Day, holding group activities, or gathering with relatives and friends.
3. The origin and evolution of New Year's Day.
The origin of Chinese New Year's Day is said to have originated more than 3,000 years ago during the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasty literary historian Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya" has a record of "four seasons of new yuan and longevity and early spring".
After the Xinhai Revolution in January 1912, in order to unify with the world, China introduced the Common Era chronology, with January 1 being the New Year, but not called New Year's Day.
In September 1949, the first session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) decided that the first day of the first lunar month was the Spring Festival. January 1 of the Gregorian calendar is New Year's Day, so "New Year's Day is also known as the Gregorian year in China" new calendar or Gregorian calendar year".
4. Traditional Xi of New Year's Day.
Successive dynasties will hold celebrations and ceremonies on New Year's Day, such as sacrificing to the gods, sacrificing ancestors, writing couplets, hanging Spring Festival couplets, writing blessing characters, dancing dragon lanterns, etc.
The folk have also gradually formed entertainment and celebration activities such as worshipping gods and Buddhas, worshiping ancestors, pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, keeping the New Year, eating reunion dinners, and many "community fires".
Twisting songs, dragon dances, sweeping dust, setting off firecrackers, eating rice balls, drinking Tusu wine, eating dumplings, eating rice cakes, eating Wuxin plates, drinking pepper and cypress wine, eating peach soup, etc. are all traditional Xi customs of the New Year's Day.
These Xi are good wishes for health, longevity and good luck.