What month is Chinese New Year 2020?

Saturday, January 25, 2020? (Gengzi (Year of the Rat).

The Lunar New Year is the first of the year and the traditional festival of the year (Nianzhi). In ancient times, people from the end of the year on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth of the sacrificial stove will begin to "busy year", the New Year to the first month of the nineteenth day before the end. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but generally at least until the first month of the fifteenth New Year's Day is not considered to be over.

The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony, a gathering of family and friends, and a bond that deepens people's feelings. The exchange of greetings during the festival transmits the ethic of kinship between friends and relatives, which is an important element in maintaining the survival and development of the Spring Festival.

The New Year's Day is an ancient festival in China and one of the most important festivals of the year. In the course of its historical development, it has blended a variety of folklore from different places into a single entity, forming a number of fixed customs and habits, many of which have been passed down to the present day. China is a multi-ethnic country, and each ethnic group celebrates the New Year in a different way.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese, Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountain, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and other ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, but the form of the festival is more of their own national characteristics, more flavorful.

The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and varied, including lion dances, floating colors, dragon dances, God tours, temple fairs, flower streets, lanterns, gongs and drums, flag tours, fireworks, praying for blessings, guanchuan spring, and stilt walkers, dry-boat runners, and rice-planting songs, etc. The Spring Festival is also celebrated by a number of ethnic minorities, such as the Hani, Daur, Dong, and Li.

During the Spring Festival, there are many different ways to celebrate the New Year, such as sticking the New Year's red, observing the New Year's Eve, eating the New Year's dinner, and paying homage to the New Year, etc. However, due to the differences in customs and localities, each of them has its own characteristics in the subtle way. Spring Festival folklore in various forms, rich in content, is the essence of the Chinese people's life and culture of the concentrated display.

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