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Which solar term does the Spring Festival refer to?

Spring Festival is also called Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year" and "Chinese New Year". The Spring Festival symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hope for the future. According to records, the people of China have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, which was initiated by Yu Shun. One day more than two thousand years BC, Shun became emperor and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the beginning of a year, that is, the first day of the first month. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, which was later called the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival used to be called New Year's Day. The month in which the Spring Festival is held is called January. The first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month of the summer year (lunar calendar) is the year.

The Lunar New Year is the first day of the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the beginning of the lunar calendar in China, and it is also the most grand and lively ancient traditional festival in China. The folk custom of celebrating the Spring Festival in China evolved from "La Worship" in primitive society. Spring Festival is also called "Chinese New Year", commonly known as "Year". Nian is a monster. It stays in the deep sea all year round and only climbs ashore on New Year's Eve. As soon as it landed, there were floods everywhere. Later, people put red paper on their doorsteps, lit firewood in the yard, and chopped vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, making a thunderous sound. Scared nian back and fled back to the sea. So on New Year's Eve, there are couplets, lanterns, new clothes, jiaozi and jiaozi, bonfires and firewood at night-this is the New Year.

On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the hour hand moved past midnight, and the Spring Festival came. According to the China lunar calendar, commonly known as the first day of the New Year, traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Before the first day of the first month, there was ancestor worship and filth removal. On the 30th, there will be ceremonies such as sticking a door to the gods, couplets, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers, and "observing the old age" on New Year's Eve. On the first day of the first month, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and then visits relatives and friends. When relatives and friends meet for the first time, they will say something like "made a fortune" and "Happy New Year" and congratulate each other. The new son-in-law will pay a New Year call at his parents' home, usually on the third day of the Lunar New Year. In addition, in festivals, in addition to visiting each other, there are customs such as giving children lucky money, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets and enjoying lanterns. During this period, lanterns filled the city and tourists crowded the streets, which was unprecedented until the Lantern Festival.