Chinese New Year known as Spring Festival岁首1.docVIP

Chinese New Year known as Spring Festival岁首. The most solemn of the Chinese peoples traditional festival, but also a symbol of unity, prosperity, and new hope for the future sustenance of the festival. According to records, the Chinese people over the Spring Festival has more than 4,000 years of history. With regard to the origin of the Chinese New Year, many say, but the public generally accepted the argument is that the rise of the Chinese New Year by虞舜. One day more than 2,000 years BC, that is, the Emperor Shun, and led his men staff, worship heaven and earth. Since then, people put on this day as岁首. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, and later called the Spring Festival. Over the past Spring Festival, also known as New Years Day. Spring Festival in January where it is called in January. However, the Chinese New Years Day date history is not consistent: Meng Xia used for the first month of January, the Shang Dynasty used腊月(Dec) for the first lunar month, the First Qin Emperor统一六国for the first month after the October, the early Han Dynasty followed the Qin calendar. Han Wu Ji刘彻calendar was too messy, the minister of public order and Sima Qian孙卿made solar calendar stipulate that the first lunar month for the one-year-old first to the first day for the first day of the year is New Years Day. Since then China has used traditional Chinese calendar (lunar calendar, which is also called Lunar) Jinian, not until the Qing Dynasty, the up to 2080. Spring Festival have different names in different times. When in the pre-Qin called the day, 元日, reform-year-old, Xian-year-old and so on; to the Han Dynasty, also called for the Three-North Korea, Dan-year-old, 正旦, is Day ; Wei and Jin referred to as meta-chen, 元日, Head of State, North Korea-year-old and so on; to the Tang and Song Yuan and Ming, then known as the New Years Day, element, -year-old Japanese, new is , S and so on; and the Qing Dynasty, has been called the New Years Day or元日. Sun Ya