What can we talk about when we talk about the Spring Festival?

Except for the one-year-old in firecrackers,

The spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu.

Thousands of families are dying,

Always trade new peaches for old ones.

-Wang Anshi

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. In ancient times, it was called New Year's Day, starting with "Yuan"; Dan is also in the morning. "New Year's Day" refers to the first morning of the year. After the founding of New China, the Gregorian calendar was officially adopted, 1 was designated as New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month was renamed Spring Festival.

The origin of "New Year's Eve"

About the origin of "New Year's Eve", what people talk about most is a legend that has been passed down from mouth to mouth for thousands of years. In legend, "Xi" is a monster, very fierce, with a unicorn on his head and a big mouth. On the night of the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, he jumped out of the mountains or caves and preyed on people. In order to prevent the invasion at night, people invited Nian, the fairy of Kitchen God. Organize people to get together on the night of the twelfth lunar month, make a fire and set off firecrackers in 2008. When the monster hears this at night, it will run away. The next morning, on the first day of the first month, when everyone was safe, they bowed to congratulate each other. At the same time, they call the first day of the first month "New Year". Greeting each other on the first day of the first month, thousands of years later formed the custom of "celebrating the New Year".

The origin of "Spring Festival"

Legends loved by people before the birth of characters enriched people's spiritual life. But since written records, there has been a reliable source channel for the origin of the year. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, "Nian" represents a person carrying ripe grain. That is to say, in the ancient traditional agricultural society, "year" first refers to the maturity of grain.

Then people gradually extended the meaning of "year" from grain maturity to grain maturity period, that is, from this grain maturity to the next grain maturity, which is called a year. However, with the gradual understanding of the running law between the sun, the earth and the moon, the significance of the year also points to astronomical time.

Therefore, the Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year, as the largest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, carries the most primitive hope of the ancients-a bumper harvest of grains. In order to celebrate the bumper harvest of grain, people have formed a series of celebration ceremonies for thousands of years, such as: New Year greetings, posting Spring Festival couplets, killing livestock to worship ancestors, kowtowing and burning incense, worshipping the heavenly monarch, worshipping the heavenly teacher and so on. In ancient times with low productivity, people's worship of eternal nature was expressed through the opportunity of Chinese New Year. At the same time, the ancients believed that people had souls, and the souls would not die after death, which led to ancestor worship. People believe that their abundant crops and prosperous livestock are blessed by some supernatural force, that is, they become ancestors of gods. Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, people kill chickens and sheep, kowtow and burn incense, and worship their ancestors. This has become the most ceremonial activity of ordinary people in ancient society.

Listening to firecrackers burning in the child's heart,

Look, the word peach is old and biased. ?

Add a plum blossom to the drum,

Wu Geng smiled to celebrate the New Year.

-Kong Renshang

In fact, the formation of any festival is entrusted with the collective memory of a group and a nation, which is usually based on the beautiful vision of reality. These beautiful visions have evolved into the culture of this nation over the years and become the spiritual essence of the years. These carry the essence of our ancestors' life experience and turn people's hostility and ignorance into words.

With the development of productive forces, the old customs born out of agricultural civilization and Spring Festival are more and more impacted by industrial civilization and even the information society. Today, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people no longer stick to honeydew melons, and rarely kill pigs and sheep before the Spring Festival. I will no longer wait for the fat on my father's stove, or even buy myself new clothes for the New Year for many years ... I have to say that the abundance of materials lowers people's expectations for the Spring Festival ... once I lack it.