What festival is 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 "New Year" and "Happy New Year" verbally. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is 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", 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 has continued 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. [ 1]

During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage 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.

65438 On February 7th, 2007, the198th executive meeting in the State Council approved the Spring Festival as a national legal holiday.