When did the Lunar New Year begin?

People set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it usually doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival).

In ancient times, people started a "busy year" in La Worship on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month or on the sacrificial stove, and the New Year didn't end until January 19.

Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. 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.

Although the Spring Festival is scheduled for the first day of the first lunar month, its activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, people began to "busy year": offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, putting up new year's red stickers, washing their hair and taking a bath, decorating lanterns and so on. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

The Spring Festival is a joyful and peaceful festival, a day for family reunion, a carnival and an eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom.