Is New Year's Day a traditional festival in China?

New Year's Day is not a traditional festival, but Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China.

New Year's Day is not a traditional festival in China, but the traditional New Year's Day in China refers to the first day of the first month. The world holiday New Year's Day, namely Gregorian calendar 1, is commonly called "New Year" in most countries in the world. On new year's day, yuan is called "beginning", and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; New Year's Day means "the first day". New Year's Day is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and hour yuan.

The traditional New Year's Day in China refers to the first day of the first month. The concept of "New Year's Day" has different meanings in different times and countries. China's concept of "New Year" always refers to the first day of the first month. The calculation method of "the first month" was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Therefore, the New Year's Day of the past dynasties is not consistent.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.