Does the Lunar New Year begin in beginning of spring or on New Year's Day?

The Lunar New Year begins at the beginning of the Lunar New Year.

The first day of the first month is the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival of the Han people in China, which marks the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month.

Beginning of spring, one of the 24 solar terms, is also called the Spring Festival, the First Month Festival, the New Year Festival and the New Year Festival. Standing means "start"; Spring represents warmth and growth. In ancient times, the method of "bucket handle Acupoint" used bucket handle and the Big Dipper in beginning of spring to point to Yin. The current method of "fixing qi" divides solar terms, and beginning of spring is when the sun reaches longitude 3 15. In the era of cadres and branches, taking beginning of spring as the beginning of a year, beginning of spring means the beginning of a new cycle, which means that everything is the beginning and everything is rebirth.

Beginning of spring is not only the first of the 24 solar terms, but also in nature and people's minds, "spring" means warm weather, flowers and birds, everything grows and seeds are sown in spring. The so-called "one year's plan lies in spring". In the early spring, in the tropic of cancer and its vicinity, the weather is warm, everything begins to grow, temperature, sunshine, rainfall and so on. Often at the turning point of the year, it tends to rise or increase, and it can be clearly felt that the days are getting longer and the sun is getting warmer.

On the first day of the first month, it was always called "New Year's Day" or "January Day" before the Qing Dynasty, and it was renamed "Spring Festival" after the Revolution of 1911. The pre-Qin period was also called "going to Japan", "January Day", "changing the year" and "offering the year". In the Han Dynasty, it was also called "Three Dynasties", "Sui Dan", "Zheng Dan" and "Zhengri". Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were called Chen Yuan, Yuan Ri, Fuehrer and Sui Dynasty. In the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was called New Year's Day, Yuan, New Year's Day and Singapore dollar.

The first day of the first month is the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is the most grand and distinctive traditional festival among the people, marking the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. In the folk, the traditional Spring Festival refers to offering sacrifices to stoves in La Worship on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, until the 15th day of the first lunar month.

During the Spring Festival, all kinds of activities to celebrate the Spring Festival will be held all over the country, with a lively and festive atmosphere. These activities are rich and colorful, with strong regional characteristics. The main contents are to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to attract money and treasure, to worship gods and ancestors, and to pray for a bumper harvest.