What is the significance of the Spring Festival for China people?

For China people, the significance of the Spring Festival lies in starting from scratch and renewing everything.

The meaning of the Spring Festival is to start all over again, renew everything and start a new cycle. In the traditional farming society, beginning of spring, the first year of the year, is of great significance, and a large number of festivals and customs related to it have been derived.

In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, family reunion, celebration, entertainment and food.

Social effects of the Spring Festival:

Spring Festival is the most important festival with the most cultural connotation in China, and it is also an important internal driving force to promote industrial economy and domestic consumption. With the rapid growth of the national economy and the continuous improvement of the disposable personal income of residents, the consumption of Spring Festival has also developed from the traditional purchase of new year's goods to holiday products and services with the characteristics of the times, such as new year's goods works, product technology, leisure and entertainment.

During the Spring Festival, the large-scale flow of people, goods, information and art promoted the overall prosperity of culture, commerce, transportation, tourism, telecommunications, finance and catering, and formed a unique "Spring Festival economy".