What is Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year refers to the "Chinese New Year Festival", which is the most solemn and lively traditional festival of the Chinese nation. In ancient China, there was a tradition of celebrating the New Year. In ancient times, the New Year specifically referred to the "beginning of spring" in the official calendar. When the solar term is in beginning of spring, the transformation of Yin and Yang, the combination of Yang and thorn, and the spring of everything mean the beginning of a new cycle. Later, due to the change of the calendar, the New Year usually refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. 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.

Spring Festival is commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. It is also known verbally as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve 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 the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. It is also the opposite to pray for the ancestors who worship the sky. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. New Year's greetings are centered on offering sacrifices and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of activities such as bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, and offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for blessings. The lively and festive atmosphere is rich and colorful, which embodies the traditional cultural essence of Chinese civilization. [ 1][2][3]