Why do people in China celebrate the Lunar New Year instead of the Gregorian New Year?

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Lunar New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, commonly known as the "New Year Festival". The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. It is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. It is the biggest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. In China, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from December 8th or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Lunar New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, commonly known as the "New Year Festival". The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. It is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. It is the biggest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. In China, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from December 8th or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.

During the Spring Festival, Han people and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate.

The main content of these activities is to offer sacrifices to ancestors, pay homage to ancestors, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and pray for a bumper harvest. The Spring Festival activities are colorful and full of national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nations belonging to the circle of Chinese characters also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Chinese New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.

The traditional names of the Spring Festival are New Year, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but they are also called "Celebrating the New Year" and "Celebrating the New Year" verbally. In ancient times, the Spring Festival usually referred to beginning of spring in the solar terms, and was also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally speaking, it doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival", is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the date of the annual festival has been fixed and continues to this day. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times. After the Revolution of 1911, 19 1 1 adopted the Gregorian calendar to calculate the year, so it was called "New Year's Day" on the Gregorian calendar 1 and "Spring Festival" on the first day of the first lunar month.

During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, offering sacrifices to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

On May 20th, 2006, the folk custom of "Spring Festival" was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

On February 7th, 2007, the198th executive meeting in the State Council approved the Spring Festival as a national legal holiday.