What are the traditional customs of Chinese New Year's Day?

Chinese New Year's Day customs mainly include setting off firecrackers, worshiping ghosts and gods, and paying homage to ancestors.

Three major ways to celebrate New Year's Day

1. All over China and even the world regard New Year's Day as a legal holiday and have a holiday on New Year's Day. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, New Year's Day was also designated as a legal holiday and a day off.

2. The more common ones are activities organized by groups, such as New Year's Day parties, hanging slogans celebrating New Year's Day, or holding group activities, etc. In the past, there were organizations that played gongs and drums and performed folk dances in groups. In recent years, there are tours, parties and other programs.

3. The traditional Chinese way of celebrating lies among the people, especially in rural areas. Every New Year's Day, every household will set off firecrackers, kill chickens and geese, and worship the gods of various places, then the family will reunite and have a meal together.

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The origin of New Year's Day:

Chinese New Year's Day has always referred to the first day of the first lunar month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar, lunar calendar). The calculation method of the first day of the first lunar month was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the New Year's Day month and day in the past dynasties are not consistent.

The Xia Dynasty’s lunar calendar used Mengxi month (Yuan month) as the first month, the Shang dynasty’s Yin calendar used the twelfth month (December) as the first month, and the Zhou dynasty’s weekly calendar used the winter month (November). For the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took Yangchun month (October) as the first month, that is, the first day of October as New Year's Day.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Meng Xiyue (January month) has been designated as the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar) has been called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1911 AD, the Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Representatives of the provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling January 1st of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and January 1st of the Gregorian calendar "New Year's Day", but it was not officially announced at the time.

In order to "make Xia Zhengzheng, so it is in line with agricultural time, and it is based on the Western calendar, so it is convenient for statistics", it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar in the first year of the Republic of China (actually used in 1912), and stipulated January 1 of the Gregorian calendar as the "New Year" , but it is not called "New Year's Day".

On September 27, 1949, the first Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, while deciding to establish the People's Republic of China, also decided to adopt the world's common AD calendar, which we call of the Gregorian calendar. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the Christian era.

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