What's the difference between Spring Festival and New Year?

The Spring Festival counts as the New Year.

The Spring Festival is the new year in China, and what we call "celebrating the Spring Festival" in our daily life is "celebrating a new afternoon". The Spring Festival, also known as the New Year Festival, sprouted in the pre-Qin period and was formed in the era of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. The customs and elegant changes of New Year's festivals have gone through a long and complicated historical process of development, change and perfection.

The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. It is the biggest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. In China, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax.