When did the Spring Festival first appear?

Chinese New Year (New Year's Eve) will not exceed this range from 65438+1October 2 1 to February 19. For example, the earliest was 65438+ 10/0 in 2004 and the latest was 65438+2 1 9 in 0985. As far as dates are concerned, the time span of the two Spring Festival is as long as 30 days.

The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival". Commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. It is also known verbally as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. It is also the opposite to pray for the ancestors who worship the sky.

The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, with a lively and festive atmosphere. These activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, worship ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest. They are rich in forms and have strong regional characteristics, which condense the essence of China traditional culture.

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If the China lunar calendar is not adjusted for 300 years, the date of breaking this record will appear 300 years later today (2365438+21February 2009).

In fact, if the lunar calendar had not been adjusted by the "leap month", the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month) would have appeared in summer.

In the Gregorian calendar, one revolution of the earth around the sun is 1 tropical year, with 365 days in a normal year and 366 days in a leap year. China's traditional summer calendar (lunar calendar) is a combination of yin and yang, based on the moon's profit and loss cycle. A month is about 29.5 days, 12 months is 354 days or 355 days.

In this case, if the number of days between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar is allowed to differ so much, it is inevitable to celebrate the Spring Festival in summer. Therefore, every few years, a leap month will be set up in the lunar calendar. For example, in the third year of the summer calendar in 2006 (commonly known as the Year of the Dog), there was a leap in July, and the whole year was 20 days longer than the Gregorian calendar.

Therefore, in 2007, the Spring Festival in Dinghai (commonly known as the Year of the Pig) was delayed by 20 days compared with last year. In this way, there is not only an error between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, but also the Gregorian calendar date for celebrating the Spring Festival every year is not fixed. If it is the lunar leap month of that year, the gap between these days will widen, and the "earliest Spring Festival" will be a whole month later than the "latest Spring Festival".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival