Chinese traditional Spring Festival, more than 4,000 years of history

Chinese traditionsChinese New YearHow many years of history? Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Wang thought, from the information currently available, the traditional Chinese New Year is played by the Yushun Xing, has more than 4,000 years of history.

    Chinese Lunar New Year of Rosh Hashanah is called the Spring Festival. It is the Chinese people's most ceremonious traditional festival, but also a symbol of unity, prosperity, new hope for the future sustenance of the festival. Wang thought introduced the Spring Festival, commonly known as "Spring Festival", a very long history of the Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year is also about the origins of a variety of claims, which have been widely accepted by the public is that 2000 years BC, the day following the Emperor Shun bit, led his men who, worship heaven and earth. Since then, people took that day as the beginning of the year. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.

    It is understood that, in 4,000 years of history, the Chinese people for the New Year's time is very different, there the first day, the first day of December, started in November, even early October. Until the Han Dynasty when, as now, in order to establish the first day of the New Year.

    Wang thought introduced as China's most important and most popular traditional festival, Chinese New Year culture has become one of the most important representatives of Chinese culture. Spring Festival has a variety of customs, such as the preparation stocking, couplets, firecrackers, stay up, New Year, give lucky money and so on. It is these customs, so that the Spring Festival is even more colorful.

    Wang thought that the Spring Festival cultural fact, expressed the Chinese people to pursue happiness, harmony and a better life wishes. Today, the Spring Festival is a family reunion, the children away from home when the New Year to go home, the whole family gathered to share their grandchildren.