When does the New Year end?

The new year begins on the last day of the twelfth lunar month. It is generally believed that until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, there is another saying that the New Year is celebrated in the first month.

Chinese New Year means "Chinese New Year Festival", and now it is called "Spring Festival". The main contents of New Year greetings are to bid farewell to the old, worship ancestors, exorcise evil spirits and pray for a new year. The form is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

According to the old custom, from1the end of February 23rd/24th, that is, the day of offering sacrifices to the stove (dust-sweeping day) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th or 19th day of the first month, nearly one month is called "Chinese New Year", and now it is called "Spring Festival". If we start from the preparation of "New Year's Goods", we will enter a busy year from1February 15 at the end of the year.

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Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the carnival activities of praying for blessings, fighting disasters, eating and entertainment.

During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in the content or details of customs, which have strong regional characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.