Spring Festival it originated in the period of offering god shells fathers activity, is our ancestors after a year of labor, in early SuiWei occasion, with their farmers and hunters gain to sacrifice the gods and ancestors, to appreciate nature's blessings. This is "la offering". Because of religious, custom own conservative and successive ruling class out of inner advocating, this kind of low productivity of primitive times of traditional custom, have been preserved in the relatively low productivity in different historical periods, follow to 1940s, evolution of "Spring Festival" custom.
In addition, there is a saying is: happy New Year "in" word, is good, the grain and multiply it badyear means. For thousands of years it has always played lunar harvest that "was founded in January 1st as the" good "days".
There is a legend is, in the old times, there lived a monster named nian, each to December 30, then channeling village string door, foraging, mutilated flesh creatures. A la month 30 night "in" arrive village, there are two cowboys in game cow the whip. "Nian" suddenly smell midair rang with "spluttered pa" sound, it scared and run to another village, a head-on saw a bright red clothes, bask thing did not know its content is away. Later came to a village, see inside bright lights, stab it dizziness is its tail between its legs escaped.
Because legend nien was scared of red, afraid of the firelight and afraid of sound, so people will have Spring Festival couplet, firecracker, beating drums etc custom. Different period, different regions and different ethnic customs.
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