Does the Spring Festival belong to one of the traditional cultures in China?

Spring Festival is the most distinctive traditional festival in China, generally referring to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. In the folk, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the period from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. It is the most solemn traditional festival of China people, and it also symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hope for the future. Influenced by the culture of China, some countries and nations in the circle of Chinese character culture also have the custom of Spring Festival.

The traditional names of the Spring Festival are New Year, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but they are also called "New Year" and "Happy New Year" verbally. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally, it doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival).

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God was sent to heaven (the portrait of the Kitchen God was cremated), and his family's performance in the past year was reported to the Jade Emperor. In order to make the kitchen god speak well, we should offer honeydew melons, and paste sugar on his mouth when sending him away, so that he can speak well in heaven. To welcome Kitchen God back on New Year's Eve is to invite (buy) a new painting of Kitchen God (with the milk of Kitchen God and his wife on it) for the kitchen. A pair of couplets are usually posted on both sides of the painting: Heaven says yes, go back to the palace for good luck. Horizontal batch: the head of the family.

From the end of the twelfth lunar month to the thirtieth day of the first month or the second day of the second month (the dragon looks up).

According to the solar calendar, the spring outing lasts from 1 to 2 1 to February 20th.

Beijing area: From the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (one year after Laba) to the second day of the twelfth lunar month (the dragon looks up), one year is over.