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英语，090101010519 ，谢任瑞，Traditional Chinese Culture（the Spring Festival）The Spring FestivalThe origin oftheNewYearThe Chinese New Year, known as Spring Festival. Is the most ceremonious traditional festival of the Chinese people, but also a symbol of unity, prosperity, new hope for the future sustenance Festival. According to records, the Chinese people over the Spring Festival, more than 4,000 years of history, it is played by Yu Shunxing. BC 2,000 years day Shun emperor bit, led his men personnel, worship heaven and earth. Since then, people took the day as the beginning of the year, to be regarded as the month started. It is said that this is the origin of the Chinese New Year, and later called the Spring Festival. Spring Festival is also called the New Years Day in the past... However, Chinas ancient New Years date is not consistent: Xia Dynasty with Meng January for the first month, the Shang Dynasty used the twelfth lunar month (December) for the first month after Qin Shi Huang in October for the first month, the Han dynasty early follow Qin calendar . Flow dynasty was too messy calendar Ji on command Minister Gongsun Qing and Sima Qian made the solar calendar, the provisions of the first lunar month to the first to the first day of the first month, the first day of the year is New Years Day. Since then the Chinese lunar calendar (lunar calendar, also known as the Annals of the Lunar New Year) has been in use, and not until the Qing dynasty years, up to 2080. Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing in 1912 became the provisional president of the Republic of China, announced the switch to the worlds universal Gregorian calendar, also known as the Gregorian calendar, the new calendar. And decided to January 1, 1912 for the first year of the Republic of January 1. January called the New Year, but not referred to the New Years Day. September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) decided in the establishment of the Peoples