When is the Lunar New Year in 2024?

Celebrate China New Year on February 9, 2024.

The holiday time for the Spring Festival in 2024 is from February 10 to February 17, and February 9 is New Year's Eve. A few days later in beginning of spring, it will be New Year's Eve and the last day of the Year of the Rabbit. After this day, 2024 the Year of the Loong will make its debut. The most ceremonial thing on this day is to have a reunion dinner. There is no New Year's Eve on the legal holidays of the Spring Festival in 2024. Please remember to make preparations in advance to avoid being in a hurry.

New Year's Eve, the last day of the twelfth lunar month, is traditionally called New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve (for example, the twelfth lunar month needs to be advanced to twenty-nine) and New Year's Eve. It is one of the important traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China, which is isomorphic with traditional festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival, and constitutes the ancestor worship festival in China.

Spring Festival custom:

China has a long history of celebrating the New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development. Many of them have been passed down to this day, such as holding new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year's greetings, having a family reunion dinner, celebrating New Year's Eve and New Year's greetings, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, setting off firecrackers, setting off fireworks, worshiping gods, racing boats, temple fairs, beating gongs and drums, flying cursor flags and so on.

Ancestor worship not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. Ancestor worship not only covers all the ancient traditional festivals in China, but also is the eternal theme of folk festivals in China.