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Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring , this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve , the evening preceding the first day of the year, to the Lantern ...
Chinese New Year's Eve's practice is the cluster of this festival's history and tradition for thousands of years, there are many practices in China which are varied as people in different regions have different customs. Most of the practices exists for thousands years and still being used nowadays.
Chinese New Year is the grandest ancient traditional festival in China, commonly known as "Guo Nian". This festival means the beginning of spring and the arrival of the new year. The customs of Chinese New Year include sticking Spring Festival couplets, buying New Year's goods, and having family dinner together.
Spring Festival may refer to: Chinese New Year, as it is referred to in China; Holi, a spring festival in India; Kakava, a spring festival of the Romani people in Turkey; Nowruz, an Iranian festival that occurs on the first day of spring; Tแบฟt, a festival in Vietnam; Spring Day, a holiday observed in several countries; The Spring Festival, a ...
Setsubun has its origins in tsuina (), a Chinese custom introduced to Japan in the 8th century. [2] It was quite different from the Setsubun known today. According to the Japanese history book Shoku Nihongi, tsuina was first held in Japan in 706, and it was an event to ward off evil spirits held at the court on the last day of the year according to the lunar-solar calendar.
The festival originated from the Cold Food or Hanshi Festival which is said to commemorate Jie Zitui, a nobleman of the state of Jin (modern Shanxi) during the Spring and Autumn period. [8] Amid the Li Ji Unrest , he followed his master Prince Chong'er in 655 BC to exile among the Di tribes and around China.
Akitu or Akitum (Sumerian: ๐ ๐ ๐พ, romanized: a-ki-ti [2]) (Akkadian: ๐ ๐ ๐, romanized: akฤซtu(m) [2]) is a spring festival and New Year's celebration, held on the first day of the Assyrian and Babylonian Nisan in ancient Mesopotamia and in Assyrian communities around the world, to celebrate the sowing of barley. [3]
During the reign of the Parthian dynasty, the spring festival was Mehregan, a Zoroastrian and Iranian festival celebrated in honor of Mithra. [70] Extensive records on the celebration of Nowruz appear following the accession of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian Empire (224–651 AD). Under the Sassanid emperors, Nowruz was celebrated as ...