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Chinese New Year refers to the "Chinese New Year Festival", that is, the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, with a lively and festive atmosphere.

These activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, worship ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest. They are rich in forms and have strong regional characteristics, which condense the essence of China traditional culture.

Ancestor worship not only covers all traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China.

According to the old custom, from1the end of February 23rd/24th, that is, the day of offering sacrifices to the stove (dust-sweeping day) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th or 19th day of the first month, nearly one month is called "Chinese New Year", and now it is called "Spring Festival". If we start from the preparation of "New Year's Goods", we will enter a busy year from1February 15 at the end of the year. ?

Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way.

Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

Celebrating the Lunar New Year, centering on wishing and praying for the New Year, is carried out in the form of activities, such as saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, worshiping gods and ancestors and praying for a bumper harvest. The festive atmosphere is rich and colorful, which embodies the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization.

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The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provides a prerequisite for festivals, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of festivals.

The first year of the ancient folk refers to the "beginning of spring" in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. When "bucket handle refers to the Yin" on that day, it is the node of beginning of spring, that is, the longitude of the sun reaches 3 15.

Beginning of spring is a node in the calculation of the ecliptic, which is the law of astronomical phenomena. "Spring" was highly valued by people in ancient times. If there is a "double spring" year, it is regarded as a bumper year. At the beginning of the new year (beginning of spring), Vientiane is renewed, meaning new.