The Origin Of The Spring Festival

The origin of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, is the beginning of the lunar year, the other name of the Spring Festival - called Guo Nian, is China's most grand, the most lively, the most important - an ancient traditional festival, is also the Chinese unique festival. It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has continued until today.
The Spring Festival generally refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. But among the folk, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival refers to the wax offerings from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month - until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which with the New Year's Eve and the beginning of the first lunar month - as the climax. How to celebrate this festival, in thousands of years of historical development, formed some relatively fixed customs, many still handed down to today. During the Spring Festival, the Chinese Han nationality and most ethnic minorities will hold a variety of celebrations. Most of these activities include offering sacrifices to gods and Buddhas, offering sacrifices to ancestors, refreshing the old and the new, meeting the jubilee and praying for a good year. The activity forms are rich and colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. On May 20, 2006, "Spring Festival" folklore was approved by The State Council to be listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The origin of the Spring Festival has a legend, in ancient China, there was a monster called "Nian", head long tentacles, ferocious. "Years of deep seabed, every New Year's Eve to climb ashore, devour livestock harm human life. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in villages and villages fled to the mountains with their young and old to avoid the injury of the "Nian" beast. One New Year's Eve, from outside the village a begging old man. Villagers a panic scene in a hurry, only the village east - an old woman gave the old man some food, and advised him to quickly up the mountain to avoid "year" beast, the old man beard smile: "mother-in-law if let me stay at home for a night, I must put the 'year' beast out." The old woman still continued to persuade, begging the old man smiled without a word. At midnight, "year" beast into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the wife's husband's home in the east of the village, the door was plastered with red paper, and the candles were bright inside." "Year" beast shaking, strange cry. Nearly the door, hospital suddenly spread "banging spluttered" Fried sound, "year" shuddered, again dare not go up. Originally, "Nian" most afraid of red, light and explosion. At this time, the door of the mother-in-law opened, I saw a hospital wearing a red robe in the old man laughing." Year "be frightened and change color, panic fled. The second day is the first day of the first month, the people who came back to see the village safe and sound very surprised. At this time, the old woman suddenly saw the light and hastened to tell the villagers the promise of the begging old man. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages,
People know how to drive away "Nian" beast. (Hakka legend) From then on every New Year's Eve, every family pasted red couplets, set off firecrackers; Household candle fire bright, keep more to the year. Early in the morning, but also walk friends Daoxi greetings. This custom spread more and more widely, and became the most solemn traditional festival of Chinese folk.

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