The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is special to every Chinese. Now the Spring Festival is approaching, these special cold knowledge of the Spring Festival, do you know?
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Spring Festival used to be not called “Spring Festival”
The first day of the first month in ancient times is not called the Spring Festival, but called New Year’s Day.
After the revolution of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was adopted for the year, then called the Gregorian calendar January 1 for New Year’s Day, the first lunar month for the Spring Festival.
The Kuomintang tried to abolish the Spring Festival, but failed after being strongly resisted by the Chinese people.
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Spring Festival used to be not a festival.
The term “Spring Festival” in Chinese history is not a festival, but refers to the “beginning of spring” in the 24 solar terms.
“Later Han · Yangzhen Biography” there is: “The Spring Festival did not rain, 100 Liao worried, and repair more than, sincere drought also.”
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, “Spring Festival” generally refers to the whole spring.
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The Spring Festival has a narrow sense and a broad sense
Today’s narrow Spring Festival generally refers to the beginning of the Chinese lunar year, that is, the first day of the first lunar month.
The folk Spring Festival in a broad sense refers to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, or the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of the twelfth lunar month, until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
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Time of Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month)
Travels between January 21 and February 21 in the Gregorian calendar
The “earliest Spring Festival” (such as January 21, 1966) and the “latest Spring Festival” (such as February 20, 1985) differ by a whole month.
According to the calendar calculation, if the lunar calendar is not artificially adjusted, February 21, 2319 will usher in the “latest Spring Festival in history”, before the Spring Festival appeared on February 20 in the Gregorian calendar, for 1920 and 1985.
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There may be two Spring festivals
Leap Spring Festival, also known as “leap first month”, from the use of the calendar in 1645 to the beginning of the leap system to AD 2800, the lunar calendar leap first month occurred only six times, its years are 1651, 2262, 2357, 2520, 2539, 2634.
MHM. The last time we had to wait until 2262, we ran into each other.
In this case, in principle, the Spring Festival is the first month of the first month, but there have been two.
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