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What are the origins of New Year's Day, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival?

1. New Year's Day

On January 1, 1912, the Republic of China was proclaimed, and Sun Yat-sen took office as the interim president in Nanjing. In his oath of office, Sun Yat-sen said "New Year's Day, the first year of the Republic of China." ” as the end. This is the origin of China's "New Year's Day".

2. Spring Festival

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. The Spring Festival evolved from the rituals of praying for good luck at the beginning of the year. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after the agricultural work of the first year (year) was completed to offer sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth and the kindness of their ancestors, and to pray for a good harvest.

3. Lantern Festival

During the period of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming advocated Buddhism. Hearing that Buddhism had the practice of monks observing the Buddha's relics and lighting lamps to worship the Buddha on the 15th day of the first lunar month, he ordered that on this night Lanterns were lit in palaces and temples to worship Buddha, and nobles and common people hung lanterns, thus forming the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival. Later, this kind of Buddhist ritual festival gradually became a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the palace to the folk, and from the Central Plains to the whole country.

Extended information

1. New Year's Day

New Year's Day is not a traditional Chinese holiday. The traditional Chinese New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first lunar month. World Festival New Year's Day, which falls on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "New Year" in most countries around the world.

2. Spring Festival

The Lunar New Year is the beginning of the year and a traditional festival. Commonly known as New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, New Year, etc., it is also known verbally as celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, celebrating the New Year, and celebrating the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the ancient times when people prayed for good luck at the beginning of the year.

3. Lantern Festival

Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is one of China’s traditional festivals and takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Three Yuan" theory, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.

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