What is the origin of the New Year?

Little New Year, a traditional Chinese festival, also known as the "Festival of the New Year", "Festival of the God of the Stove", "Festival of the Stove" and so on. The folk activities of the small year mainly include dust sweeping, sacrificial stoves and so on. China is a vast country, there are great differences in local customs, due to different local customs, known as the "small year" days are not the same. Most of the southern region is the 24th day of the lunar month, the northern region is the 23rd day of the lunar month, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas to the "24th day of the lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are known as the New Year, Nanjing, the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival for the New Year, Yunnan, part of the date of the New Year is the date of the first month! In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is called Xiao Nian; in some areas of Yunnan, the date of Xiao Nian is the sixteenth day of the first lunar month; in some areas of the southwest and the north, the date of Xiao Nian is New Year's Eve. Small New Year is usually regarded as the beginning of the busy year, means that people start to prepare the New Year's goods, dust sweeping, sacrificial stoves, etc., ready to clean a good year, expresses a kind of resignation of the old and welcome the new, welcome the auspicious and blessed good wishes. Stove festival in our country has thousands of years of folk history, is the Chinese people on the "food and clothing have more than" the dream of the pursuit of reflection.