Chinese New Year custom

The second season of the Spring Festival: the creation of the calendar

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young man named Wannian. When he saw that the festival was very chaotic, he had the intention to set the order. But I couldn’t find a way to calculate time. One day, he went up the mountain and chopped wood, and sat down in the shade of the tree. The movement of the tree shadow inspired him. He designed a funeral meter to measure the time of day. Later, the drop spring on the cliff inspired his inspiration. He also made a five-layer leaking pot to calculate the time. Over time, he found that every three hundred and sixty days, the seasons are repeated, and the length of the day is repeated.

At that time, the monarch called Zu B, and often felt distressed by the unexpected weather. After Wannian knew it, he went to see the emperor with the sundial and the leaking pot, and explained the truth of the sun and the moon to Zu B. After the ancestors listened to Long Yan, they felt reasonable. So he left Wanian, built the Sun Moon Pavilion in front of the Temple of Heaven, and built a sundial and a leaking pot pavilion. And hope to be able to measure the law of the sun and the moon, to calculate the exact morning time, create a calendar, for the benefit of the people of the world.

Once, Zu B went to understand the progress of the Wannian test calendar. When he boarded the Sun Moon, he saw a poem on the stone wall next to the Temple of Heaven:

Sunrise and sunset three hundred and six, and the beginning of the week.

The grass and trees are divided into four seasons, and there are twelve rounds in one year.

I know that the calendar has been created for thousands of years, and I personally boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion to visit Wannian. Wannian pointed to the sky and said to Zu B: "It is now twelve months old, the old age is over, the new year is over, pray for the monarch to set a festival." Zu B said: "Spring is the first year, it is called the Spring Festival." It is said that this is the origin of the Spring Festival.

Winter is coming to spring, year after year, after years of long-term observation, carefully calculated, and made an accurate solar calendar. When he presented the solar calendar to the successor monarch, it was full of silver whiskers. The monarch was deeply moved. To commemorate the achievements of the eternal years, he named the solar calendar as the "perpetual calendar" and the seal of the year as the sun and moon. In the future, people hang up the birthday picture in the New Year, which is said to be a commemoration of the year of high morale.

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