The origin of the Spring Festival was originally called Yuan Day, and related celebrations began in the Xia Dynasty. As the first festival of the year, it was founded in the Han Dynasty. In the first year of the early Han Dynasty (BC 104), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promulgated the taichu calendar, and decided to take the first day of the first month of the first month of the summer calendar as the beginning of the year. The last day of every year is New Year's Eve.
As the first festival of the Chinese nation, the connotation Spring Festival is the core festival in the festival system, with the longest duration and the richest content. The significance of the Spring Festival in saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new and family reunion has become an important force to unite national feelings and a cultural symbol of the Chinese nation's self-identity. On New Year's Eve, China people get together for a reunion dinner and stay up late to celebrate New Year's Eve, which is an annual cultural custom. Wanderers who have left their homes have to hurry home thousands of miles away.
Qingming Festival
Sacrifice and outing are suitable.
The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the few traditional festivals determined by the solar calendar, which is fixed around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The custom of sweeping graves and hiking in Tomb-Sweeping Day mainly comes from the ancient Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival.
Connotation In the past two years, Tomb-Sweeping Day's Huangdi Mausoleum, Xuanyuan Temple and Yandi Mausoleum all held large-scale public sacrifices, and Chinese at home and abroad learned the truth that blood is thicker than water from the sacrifice ceremony. Sacrificing ancestors has always been a major event in the folk life of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship shows the tradition of "pursuing the future with caution", and a large number of overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan have also rushed back to their homeland to worship their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best in spring, which is suitable for people to go to the suburbs to get close to nature and embrace spring. Many places in our country still have the habit of planting trees in Qingming.
Dragon Boat Festival
There are many customs of Xiangzongye.
The origin of Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Magnolia Festival, Pujie Festival, etc. The earliest written records about the Dragon Boat Festival can be found in the Eastern Han Dynasty. On the fifth day of May, people tie colorful ribbons on their arms to prevent military service and ghosts, diseases and plagues. Eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats are the customs formed since then.
Connotation revolves around the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, forming some influential folk customs, adding new customs and cultural connotations to the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats, the common explanation is to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, which increases the spiritual core of patriotism, and various sports activities such as dragon boat racing derived from it also help to cultivate the spirit of cooperation.
Mid-Autumn Festival
Have a good month and get together.
Originated in the folk festival system in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival came into being late. During the Han and Wei Dynasties, there was no trace of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival centered on appreciating the moon appeared in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and rose to a folk festival in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Connotation Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional autumn festival in China, ranking second only to Spring Festival. At the full moon, people associate it with the reunion of people, so the Mid-Autumn Festival was regarded as a "reunion festival" in ancient times. The artistic conception of reunion between people and the moon is the life ideal of China people. "I wish people a long life, and a thousand miles is a good wish for life." . The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival custom attaches great importance to the cultivation and expression of family ties and plays an irreplaceable role in promoting social harmony.