What season is 65438+ October?

October is the second month of winter. Solar terms this month: slight cold, great cold. The English word+October comes from the patron saint of ancient Rome. October is the first month of the year. January in the lunar calendar is called the first month. 1 month is the first month of the solar year, and it is a big month, * * * with 3 1 day. In the northern hemisphere, Janus, a two-faced god, has two faces, one looking at the future and the other looking back at the past.

The nicknames of January in China lunar calendar are: Meng Chun, the first month, the first month, the end of the month, January, Xinzheng, the beginning of the year, jiayue, Ruiyue, the new moon, Meng Yue, Liu Yue and the first month. Their sources and meanings are as follows:

Meng Chun: According to China's dictionary: Kong Ying Da. Justice: "Meng, Zhong, Shu, Ji, brothers and sisters are different." If you have three brothers, they are called Meng, Zhong and Ji. Obviously, the title of Meng Chun regards the first month of the new year as the beginning of spring. According to Lu's interpretation of Chunqiu, it is the first month of spring, March is spring, January, and mid-spring is February, March.

Spring Festival, that is, Lunar New Year, commonly known as Chinese New Year, generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month.

But among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest year. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Since the first year of Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month of the Xia Dynasty (lunar calendar) has been regarded as "Year", and the date of the annual festival has been fixed and continues to this day. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times.

After the Revolution of 1911, 19 1 1 adopted the Gregorian calendar to calculate the year, so it was called "New Year's Day" on the Gregorian calendar 1 and "Spring Festival" on the first day of the first lunar month. The 20-year-old festival is also called a "traditional festival". They have a long history, spread widely and have the characteristics of great popularity, mass and even the whole people. New Year's Day is a new day to get rid of old cloth.

Although this festival is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, its activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the beginning of the Lunar New Year's Day on the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, people began to "be busy": sweeping the floor, washing their hair and taking a bath, preparing new year's utensils and so on. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". People greet the new year and spring with grand ceremonies and enthusiasm.