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The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it's been known since the 20th century, remains the most important social and economic festival in China originally linked to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the holiday was a time to honor domestic and heavenly deities as well as the ancestors He was also a time to bring family to celebrate with the popular adoption in China of Western calendar in 1912, the Chinese have joined to celebrate January 1 as New year's day in China, however, continues to celebrate new year traditional Chinese year, although in a shorter version with a new name spring Festival significantly younger generations of Chinese now observe the holiday of a very different way of their ancestors for some youth, the party has evolved from a chance to reconnect with the family a chance to relax from work.
The ancient Chinese calendar, which the Chinese New Year is based, worked as a religious guide, dynastic and social Oracle bones inscribed with astronomical records indicate that there were at least as early as BC to the 14th century, when the Shang dynasty was in power structure the calendar s wasn t static He was cleared that emperor held power and varied in use depending on the region.
San Francisco, California, says the parade Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of its kind outside of Asia The city organized a celebration of the Chinese New Year from the gold rush era of the 1860s, a period large-scale Chinese immigration in the region.
The Chinese calendar is a complicated timepieces Its parameters were defined based on lunar phases and solar solstices and equinoxes Yin and yang, the opposing but complementary principles that make up a harmonious world, also ruled the calendar, as Chinese zodiac, the cycle of twelve stations or signs along the apparent path of the sun through the cosmos Each new year was marked by the characteristics of one of the 12 zodiacal animals rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
The period of the Chinese New Year began in the middle of the 12th month and ended around the middle of the first month with the waxing full moon Observance of the New Year period has been traditionally divided into Eve and the first days of the new year.
Traditionally, for the Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the entire schedule the attention of the household was set on celebrating Meanwhile, the business life came near a house arrest and the family was the main focus in preparation for the holiday, the houses were thoroughly cleaned to rid them of Huiqi, or blasts ominous, that might have collected during the previous year cleaning was also intended to appease the gods who would descend from heaven to make ritual sacrifices inspections icons of food and paper were offered to the gods and ancestors people displayed printed rolls with lucky messages on the doors of the house and set off firecrackers to scare off evil spirits elders have money to children in fact, most of the rituals performed during this period were supposed to bring good opportunity at home and long life to the family especially the parents.
The most important was the celebration of New Year's Eve, the extended family would join around the table for a meal that included the last being a fish that was the symbol of abundance and therefore not intended to be eaten in the first five days of the new year, people were eating long noodles to symbolize long life on the 15th and last of the new year, round balls like the full moon were shared as a sign of unity family and perfection.
The Western Gregorian calendar style arrived in China in 1582 and the Jesuit missionaries It began to be used by the general population in 1912, and New Year's Day was officially recognized as taking place on January 1 from 1949 under Chinese communist rule the head of Mao Zedong party 1893 1976, the government banned the celebration of Chinese New year and followed the Gregorian calendar in its relations with the West, but in the late 20th century, leaders Chinese were more willing to accept the Chinese tradition in 1996, China has established a one week vacation during the holidays now called spring Festival to give people the opportunity to go home and celebrate the new year.
In the early 21st century, many Chinese families have spent a significant portion of their discretionary income to celebrate the Spring Festival with traditional symbols and food They also spent much time watching the gala televised Spring Festival a show annual varieties with traditional and contemporary singers, dancers and magic demonstrations Although rites no holiday more had a religious value, people remained sensitive to zodiacal animals since they considered that, for example, a rat year could mean for their personal wealth or for a child born in that time.
A change of attitude towards the Spring Festival took place in youth of China, with Chinese students report that they prefer to surf the web, sleep, watch TV or spend time with friends to celebrate with family They also said not to love traditional food New year such as dumplings and rice dough sticky with its name change of the Chinese New year with the spring Festival, some members of the younger generation of the holiday has evolved from an opportunity to reconnect family ties with a chance to relax from work.
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