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When is the Chinese New Year?

Hunan Spring Club is the first day of the second lunar month. According to the calendar data, March 13, that is, the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar, is the traditional Spring Festival in China, that is, people pray for good weather, abundant crops, peace and prosperity in that year by offering sacrifices to the gods of land and valleys. The social time of the Spring Festival is generally the fifth day after beginning of spring, around the vernal equinox.

Spring Festival is one of the oldest traditional folk festivals of Han nationality. In Shang Dynasty and Western Zhou Dynasty, it was a carnival festival for men and women to meet, and later it was mainly used to worship the land god.

The social time of the Spring Festival is generally the fifth day after beginning of spring, around the vernal equinox, but the Han people also have the sayings of February 2nd, February 8th, February 12th and February 15th.

The rise of the spring club:

After Qin and Han Dynasties, with the development of productive forces, the first thing the rulers need to pay attention to is how to maintain their own rule, and population is no longer the most urgent issue. Therefore, although there are still various entertainment activities during the Spring Festival, the male and female dramas preserved in the traditional folk are basically banned under the will of the rulers.

With the change of administrative system, the original governors' clubs (state clubs and Hou clubs) were gradually replaced by county clubs, and became emperor clubs (Thai clubs), county clubs (county clubs, county clubs) and township clubs (Li clubs).