What is the meaning of Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year, refers to the "New Year Festival", now known as the "Spring Festival". The main contents of Chinese New Year celebrations are to get rid of the old and bring in the new, pay homage to the gods and ancestors, drive away evil spirits and disasters, and pray for the New Year, which are colorful, lively, festive and full of New Year's flavors, and condense the essence of the traditional culture of the Chinese civilization. According to the old custom, from the end of the year, December 23/24 of the sacrificial stove day (dust sweeping day) until the first month of the 15th night of the Lantern Festival or the first month of the 19th, nearly a month is called "New Year's Eve", that is, what is now called the "Spring Festival period"; if you start from the preparation of the "New Year's goods", you can see that it's a very important part of the New Year. If you start counting from the preparation of "New Year's goods", about December 15 or 16 from the end of the year will enter the New Year's busy.

The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only centers on the ideological beliefs, ideal aspirations, life, entertainment and cultural psychology of the Chinese nation, but also is a carnival-like display of blessings, calamities, food and entertainment activities. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held throughout the country to celebrate the New Year, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs due to different regional cultures, with strong regional characteristics. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year.