When will the Chinese New Year be celebrated in 2023?

The Chinese New Year in 2023 is 065438+1October 2 1 Saturday.

Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve and so on. Verbally, it is also called Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original.

Spring Festival is one of the top ten traditional festivals in China with a long history. The origin and development of the Spring Festival is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization. It evolved from the time when ancient people prayed for the New Year, and it is related to ancient primitive beliefs, auspicious day sacrifices, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanities and natural cultural contents. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after a year of farming to thank the gods of heaven and earth, repay the kindness of their ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year.

China New Year's custom:

1, dust removal cloth new: China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Its intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

2. Celebrating the New Year's Eve: Celebrating the New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual custom activities, and the custom of observing the old age has a long history. On New Year's Eve, people give gifts to each other, which is called "Feeding the Year". Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui".

3. Exchange greeting cards: As early as the Song Dynasty, the special greeting cards, called "name thorns" or "name stickers", began to be used between royalty and relatives. There is a red paper bag on each door, called "door book", with the owner's name written on it to receive the name thorn (name card). Worshipers write their names on the door book to express New Year greetings, which has the same meaning as modern New Year cards.