What's the difference between New Year's Day and Spring Festival? When are they?

The Lunar New Year in China refers to the Spring Festival, that is, the first day of the first lunar month. In China, the Gregorian New Year refers to the day of the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 every year.

2. Festival customs are different.

The customs of the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) include traditional customs such as buying new year's goods, offering sacrifices to stoves, posting couplets, eating New Year's Eve, collecting lucky money, paying New Year's greetings and keeping vigil. Compared with the Spring Festival, there is no custom of putting up couplets, eating New Year's Eve and collecting lucky money in the Gregorian New Year.

3. Legal holidays are different.

The legal holiday of China Lunar New Year is three days. The legal holiday of Chinese Gregorian New Year (New Year's Day) is 1 day.

Festivals come from different sources.

Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) evolved from ancient year-end prayers. The Gregorian New Year (New Year's Day) originated from June +09 12 10/day of the founding of the Republic of China in 65438, and Sun Yat-sen's oath of office ended with "New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic of China".

5. Different meanings.

According to the China lunar calendar, the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) is the first day of the year, which is the beginning of the year. Gregorian New Year (New Year's Day) is the first day of the year.

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