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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New Year’s Eve will also fall on the 29th.
There are no 30 days in a month, which is quite normal in the lunar calendar.
Because the current lunar calendar is arranged according to the astronomical data of the movement of the earth, the moon and the sun, you must not see any bright part of the moon on the first day of each month, that is, “new moon”.
In fact, the moon from round to missing time, the average cycle is 29.53 days, the number of days must be an integer, which leads to the emergence of large months, small months, there will be a month with 30 days, a month 29 days of the situation.
If this month happens to be the twelfth month, then this year (lunar calendar) there will be no New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve will be ahead of the twelfth month twenty-nine, this year is.
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The Spring Festival is celebrated differently every day
Although the Spring Festival is a holistic custom, the content of the celebration is different every day.
From the first day to the seventh day, it is chicken day, dog day, pig day, sheep day, cow day, horse day and human day.
Legend has it that Nuwa first spent six days creating chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, horses, and accumulated experience before creating man on the seventh day. So, why go to work on the seventh day? !
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Spring Festival is not only in China
In addition to China, there are many countries in the world to list the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday, respectively: South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Brunei.
In addition, in the past, Japan also celebrated the Lunar New Year, but after the Meiji Restoration, the lunar calendar was abolished, and the festival was directly moved to the solar calendar.
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Lucky money is not actually “money”
Lucky money is not actually “money”, but an evil product cast into the shape of a coin.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small demon with black hands and white, named “Tai”, which came out every New Year’s Eve to harm people, and the money was specially used to scare away this goods.
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The word “fu” is pasted upside down
The word “fu” on the gate cannot be pasted upside down. In the folk tradition, the word “Fu” should be pasted upside down on the water tank, garbage bin and cabinet.
In order to avoid the taboo of turning away the blessings of the family when pouring water and garbage, the word “blessing” is posted upside down in these two places, and “blessing to” is cleverly used to offset “blessing to go”.
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