The Spring Festival is only the last day of winter and the first day of spring. Why does everyone pay so much attention to the Spring Festival?

Among the traditional folk festivals in China, the Spring Festival is the most important one. In the twelfth lunar month, the weather is cold, farm work is relatively idle, and people have more time, so the celebrations during the Spring Festival are more colorful than other festivals, and these activities have special holiday characteristics. In the past, in the vast urban and rural towns, people selling New Year pictures, people hanging money and window grilles, people hanging lights and firecrackers, people hanging Facebook, and people hanging Spring Festival couplets were all red, green and green, and the annual stalls were next to each other, beaming and full of festive atmosphere. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the hour hand moved past midnight, and firecrackers sounded immediately, ushering in the first morning of the New Year. The Spring Festival was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times. Yuan is the beginning, Dan is the morning, and New Year's Day is the first morning of the year. The annotation to "Nian" in Er Ya is: "Summer is called Nian, Shang is called Si, and Zhou is called Nian." Since the Shang dynasty, the full moon has been missing once in January, the first day is the new moon, and the fifteenth day is the hope. The beginning of each year starts at midnight on the first day of the first month and is called "New Year's Day" or "January Day". By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian had more and more rich experience in observing elephant numbers and timing, so he created the taichu calendar, and determined that the first month of the first month was the beginning of the year and the first day of the first month was the New Year. Since then, the custom of the Lunar New Year has been handed down. The Book of Songs records that during the Lunar New Year, farmers drink "spring wine" and wish "changing the year" to enjoy themselves and celebrate the bumper harvest of the year. There were also programs of setting off firecrackers in Jin Dynasty, that is, lighting piles of fires, burning bamboo in the fire and making crackling firecrackers, which made the festive atmosphere more intense. In the Qing Dynasty, the activities of setting off firecrackers, decorating lanterns and celebrating the New Year became more lively. In the Qing Dynasty, Pan's "Jingdi Shengsui" recorded: "On New Year's Eve, friends are made at the beginning of the night, and treasures and torches outside the door strive for glory and jade strives for profit. ..... I heard firecrackers like thunder, which spread all over the ruling and opposition parties and didn't stop all night. " In different historical periods in ancient China, the Spring Festival had different meanings. In the Han Dynasty, people designated "beginning of spring" as the Spring Festival among the 24 solar terms. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people called the whole spring Spring Festival. 19 1 1 year, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty. In order to "according to the summer calendar, so according to the agricultural season, so making statistics", representatives of provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar. In this way, the first day of the first lunar month is designated as the Spring Festival. Until now, people still use the customary title of the Spring Festival. There are many beautiful legends about the Spring Festival. Although these legends are unfounded, they add a layer of myth to the origin of the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is a symbol of unity and prosperity, symbolizing the hope of the new year.