As we all know, China actually implements both calendars at the same time. One is the western calendar, which is what we usually call the solar calendar, and the other is the traditional calendar of China, which is what we know as the lunar calendar. As the most important and grand festival in China, the Spring Festival, that is, the first day of the first lunar month, has almost been integrated into everyone's life. However, many people may not know that during the Republic of China, the Spring Festival was even cancelled.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

19 12, with the victory of the Revolution of 1911, the decadent Qing government was overthrown and the Republic of China was founded. In the view of revolutionaries who founded the Republic of China, it is an inevitable choice to learn from the West to strengthen themselves. Therefore, they abandoned the feudal dross of the Spring Festival and advocated calling on everyone to celebrate the Spring Festival on the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day according to the western calendar.

Of course, the interim government existed for a short time, and its control over the whole country was weak. Therefore, although this policy was put forward, it was not put into practice. 19 14 After Yuan Shikai became president, this policy was also compromised. The Gregorian calendar of foreign goods is parallel to the traditional lunar calendar, and the Spring Festival continues to be recognized, while the Gregorian calendar is 1.

Yuan Shikai

Therefore, the idea of canceling the Spring Festival was actually put forward mainly by revolutionaries headed by Sun Yat-sen ... During the Northern Warlords, Sun Yat-sen still put forward the idea of canceling the Spring Festival many times. After two victories in the Northern Expeditions, the Nanjing National Government was established. Sun Yat-sen successor? Chang Shenkai, who pretends to be himself, start? Inherit Sun Yat-sen's legacy? The abolition of the lunar calendar was naturally included in the administrative scope of the Nanjing National Government.

However, the abolition of the lunar calendar, that is, the abolition of the Spring Festival, is only the result of the rulers' complete disregard for China culture, and the local people neither support nor completely ignore this decree of the Nanjing National Government. Therefore, after administrative measures failed to prevent people from continuing to celebrate the Spring Festival, the National Government officially abolished this policy on 1934.

Nanjing national government

As a native of China, the Spring Festival is the most important and indispensable festival in the traditional culture of China. Why did the Nanjing National Government and many revolutionaries and literati repeatedly demand its abolition regardless of reality and public opinion? In fact, the reason is very simple, because they are eager for China to catch up with the West and feel inferior, which makes them overcorrect and even radical.

1840, after the western powers who completed the first industrial revolution opened the door for China to go to the country with a gun, the Chinese nation, which had been ahead for thousands of years, suddenly found that the once central dynasty and China went to the country, and the barbarians who were despised by them and crushed by absolute superiority completely surpassed them.

Build a strong ship and sharpen a gun.

After they refused to accept their anger, they became confused and afraid in the face of the absolute superiority of the West. Some people have become die-hards, such as ostriches, ignoring the guns of western powers, thinking that there will be no existence without acknowledging the facts, stubbornly adhering to feudal traditional habits, while others actively hope to learn. Control foreigners like foreigners? .

At the same time, there is also a kind of person who blindly worships and worships everything in the West, regardless of the advanced technology or dross of the West, in order to learn and even worship advanced experience, but has no dispute about the traditional culture of China. It was in this environment that the sensational statement of abolishing Chinese characters was shouted out in the Republic of China.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

In fact, the proponents of abolishing Chinese characters and Spring Festival couplets are not necessarily traitors or unpatriotic. Some people just want China to rise again, but they overcompensate and feel inferior. Instead, they begin to deny everything about themselves. Just like Lu Xun said: When they poured foot washing water, they even threw away the children.

Of course, no matter what the starting point of abolishing the Spring Festival is, they are too eager to see China rise again, or they are already grovelling in front of western culture and eager to deny everything about China. This kind of practice and thinking of these people is neither realistic nor likely to be supported by ordinary people. The strong charm and vitality of China's traditional culture can never be determined by a slogan or a policy. China's traditional culture, including the Spring Festival, has never been an obstacle to the rise of China.