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What date is Chinese New Year 2024

The Chinese New Year 2024 is February 10th.

According to the calendar information consulted, the 2024 Chinese New Year holiday schedule is from Saturday, February 10, 2024 to Friday, February 16, 2024 *** counting 7 days, with Saturday, February 17 and Sunday, February 18 off. New Year's Eve is a holiday on February 10th, which also starts on New Year's Day. 2024 A.D., a leap year in the Gregorian calendar, ****366 days and 53 weeks, the year of the A-chen in the lunar calendar (Year of the Dragon).

The Spring Festival is the Chinese Lunar New Year, commonly known as the new spring, the new year, the New Year's Day, etc., also known as the New Year, the New Year, is a set of old and new, worship the gods and ancestors, praying for blessings to ward off evil spirits, reunion of family and friends, celebration and entertainment and food as one of the big folk festival. The Spring Festival has a long history, originating from the primitive beliefs and nature worship of early mankind, and evolving from the ancient times of the first year of the year prayers and sacrifices.

Origin of the festival

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, as well as astrology, calendars, and other humanities and natural cultural content, according to modern anthropology, archaeology, the two most primitive human beliefs. One is the belief in heaven and earth, and the other is the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient traditional festivals were formed in the ancient people to choose the day of sacrifice, in order to thank the gods of heaven and earth, ancestors, as well as pray for blessings to ward off evil activities.

Early festival culture reflects the humanistic spirit of ancient people's nature worship, unity of heaven and man, prudence, and remembrance of the past. A series of sacrificial activities, which implies a profound cultural connotation of respect and virtue, ritual and civilization, the origin and development of the festival covers the humanistic philosophy and the laws of nature and other aspects of the content.