What is New Year's Day also known as

Also called "New Year's Day". In the pre-Qin period called "on the day", "the first day", "change the year", "dedicate the year" and so on; to the two han period, and was called "three dynasties", "the first day of the year", "the first day", "the first day"; Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties called the "Yuan Chen", "Yuan Day", "Yuan Shou",? "year dynasty", etc.; to the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming, it is called "new year's day", "yuan?" , "year day", "new positive", "new yuan" and so on; and the Qing dynasty, has been called "new year's day" or "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day" in the Qing Dynasty.

The Spring Festival is the grandest and most characteristic traditional festival of Chinese folklore. Generally refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, is the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". But in folklore, the traditional meaning of the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year's festival from the eighth day of the wax month, or Lunar New Year's 23rd or 24th day of the sacrificial stove, until the first month of the 15th, which is the culmination of the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the New Year.

During the Spring Festival, China's Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities hold a variety of activities to celebrate. These activities are to worship gods and Buddhas, pay tribute to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome happiness and pray for a good year as the main content. The activities are colorful and have strong ethnic characteristics.

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The Spring Festival

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, historically known as the first day of the first month of the first day of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first month of the first year of the first year of the lunar calendar, the history of the first day of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first year of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar. The concept of "Spring Festival" is not found in ancient times, it was created by the government of the Republic of China.

December 31, 1911, the Republic of China Hubei military government in the release of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs on the Republic of China to use the solar calendar encyclical", clearly will be called "Spring Festival".

To September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference further clarified the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the "Spring Festival", "Spring Festival" name formally included in the Chinese festivals code.

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