There are many traditional festivals in China, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. Every festival has its origin and legend. Please choose your favori

There are many traditional festivals in China, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. Every festival has its origin and legend. Please choose your favorite. Like the Spring Festival, we can have a family reunion.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a young man named Wannian who saw that the festival at that time was very chaotic and wanted to make it accurate. One day, he went up the mountain to cut wood and sat in the shade to have a rest. The movement of the shadow inspired him. He designed a sundial to measure the sun's shadow and time. But it was raining and foggy at that time, which affected the measurement. Later, the dripping spring on the cliff aroused his interest, and he began to make a five-story clepsydra. As time went on, he found that the length of the weather would repeat every 360 days.

At that time, the monarch was called Zu Ti, and the unpredictable weather made him very upset. A minister named Aheng, in order to please the emperor, said that he would set up a rooftop to worship the gods. Zu Ti thought it was reasonable, so he led officials to worship heaven, but to no avail. Ten thousand years later, he couldn't help but go to see the emperor with a summer heat instrument and a clepsydra, and explain to Zu Ti the truth about the movement of the sun and the moon. Zu Ti was very happy after hearing this and felt reasonable. So I left for ten thousand years and built the Sun and Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, as well as the sundial platform and the Leaky Pot Pavilion. Send twelve boys to serve for ten thousand years. Zu Ti said to Wannian: "I hope you can accurately calculate the laws of the sun and the moon, calculate the exact time in the morning and evening, and create a calendar for the benefit of people all over the world."

On one occasion, Zu Ti sent a message to Ah Heng asking about the progress of the perpetual calendar. When he boarded the altar of the sun and the moon, he saw the stone wall beside the Temple of Heaven engraved with:

Sunrise and sunset 360, start all over again.

There are four seasons when the wood is dry and glorious, and there are twelve laps in a year.

When Ah Heng saw this, he was very upset when he learned that the perpetual calendar had been successfully developed. He was extremely afraid that the monarch would blame himself for putting forward the idea of offering sacrifices to the gods because of the love of the calendar. So he plotted and sent an assassin to get rid of Wan Nian. The assassin climbed up the Sun Moon Pavilion and saw Wannian watching the stars on the pavilion, so he drew an arrow with his bow and prepared to shoot him. Who knows, the assassin was found by the guards and arrested on the spot. When Zu Ti learned this, he punished Ah Heng and personally boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit Wan Nian. Wan Nian pointed to the astronomical phenomena and said to Zu Ti, "It's been twelve months now, the old year has passed and the new year has begun again. Please make a festival for you. " Zu Ti said: "Spring is the way of the year, so let's call it the Spring Festival."

Winter goes and spring comes, year after year. Later, after long-term observation and careful calculation, it took 10 thousand years to calculate the accurate solar calendar. When he showed his successor the solar calendar, he was covered with silver whiskers. The monarch was deeply moved. In order to commemorate the achievements of 10 thousand years, he named the solar calendar "perpetual calendar" and named it the birthday star of the sun, moon and moon. In the future, people will hang up the Shou Xingtu during the Chinese New Year, which is said to commemorate the venerable ten thousand years. This is one of the origins of the Spring Festival.

The customs of the Spring Festival

In the towns and villages in the north and south of China, it is generally the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and people begin to prepare for the Spring Festival. A few years ago, markets all over the country were bustling and lively. There are all kinds of things to eat, wear, use and play in the stalls of the new year's goods store, including "rice cakes" marked with red stamps, as well as festive items such as Spring Festival couplets, fireworks and candles. Years ago, the market was the richest and most complete in a year, and men, women and children rushed to buy some desirable goods. Especially for children, whenever they buy firecrackers, they often start to set off firecrackers sporadically before the Spring Festival to add atmosphere to the upcoming New Year. There is a song in Beijing that sings a year-end folk song:

Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky;

Twenty-four, housing Tomb-Sweeping Day;

Twenty-five, make tofu;

Twenty-six, cut meat;

Twenty-seven, killing chickens;

Twenty-eight, white hair;

Twenty-nine, full of fragrance;

On the 30 th, sit in the dark for one night;