When is the traditional Spring Festival of the lunar calendar?

The Spring Festival is commonly known as the Chinese New Year, which is the Lunar New Year. The first day of the first lunar month is the beginning of a year. It is a traditional festival, the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, a festival celebrated by the people of China and a day for family reunion.

Traditionally, the Spring Festival begins on1February 23rd or 24th, and lasts until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. The Spring Festival is a bond to enhance people's feelings, and let everyone get together in this happy and peaceful festival. Holiday greetings convey the family ethics between relatives and villages and maintain the sustainable development of the Spring Festival.

Clean the house before the new year, and clean the house before the new year. We call it "sweeping the dust". The purpose of sweeping dust is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck, so as to pray for peace and good luck in the coming year. And put as many red decorations as possible at home.

Sacrifice to the kitchen god on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should provide some food and clean the stove. Many families will put up portraits of the kitchen god in the kitchen.

Eating a traditional New Year's Eve dinner, the dishes are also traditional, but because of the different customs in different places, I won't go into details. On New Year's Eve, most people will observe the custom of observing the new year and stay up late to welcome the new year.

In the early morning of New Year's Day, in order to have a good omen for the New Year, firecrackers are set off first. After the firecrackers sound, the red is broken all over the ground, which is called "full house". At this time, the streets were full of anger and joy.

Visiting relatives and friends is the most important thing during the whole Spring Festival. Relatives and friends who rarely meet each other all the year round get together during the Chinese New Year to enhance their feelings.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, even at the end of the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by lively and festive viewing customs since ancient times. As the name implies, eating Yuanxiao is an indispensable traditional custom, and solve riddles on the lanterns and flower viewing lanterns are also activities that can be carried out during the Lantern Festival.