What does the Spring Festival have to do with beginning of spring?

Beginning of spring is the ancient Spring Festival.

Spring Festival is the China Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Spring Festival", "New Year" and "New Year's Eve". It is also called "New Year" and "New Year's Eve". It is a folk festival integrating the old with the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. Beginning of spring is the first of the traditional 24 solar terms, and the ancient folks celebrated the festival on "beginning of spring", which is equivalent to the modern "Spring Festival".

According to the Book of Rites, the word beginning of spring appeared as early as 3000 years ago in the Zhou Dynasty. Originally called Spring Festival, it was changed to beginning of spring after the Republic of China. 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.

The traditional cultural implication of the Spring Festival;

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.