What is the information about Chinese New Year?

1, the Spring Festival is the Chinese Lunar New Year, commonly known as the new spring, the new year, the New Year's Day, etc., and verbally known as the New Year, the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of prayer and sacrifice.

2, the first of a hundred festivals, the Spring Festival is the Chinese nation's grandest traditional festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year.

3, the Spring Festival and the Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four traditional festivals. Spring Festival folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

4, 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 is not considered to be over. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings to ward off evil spirits, reunion of family and friends, celebrations and entertainment, and eating and drinking.

5, during the Spring Festival, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the New Year, with a strong local characteristics. These activities to get rid of the old and new, drive away evil spirits and disasters, worship the gods and ancestors, the blessing of the New Year as the main content, the form of colorful, cohesion of the essence of traditional Chinese culture.