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When is the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month. Generally speaking, the traditional Spring Festival begins in La Worship on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or at the altar on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, with New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as the climax, and the whole Year doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It marks the end of the cold winter and the beginning of the new year, and symbolizes new hope. Chinese people all over the world have to hold various colorful celebrations, which is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation in a year.

Historically, there are many interesting legends about the Spring Festival among Chinese people. There are many names for the Spring Festival, such as January Day, New Year's Day, Unlicensed, Chen Yuan and Nian Egg, but ordinary people are more accustomed to calling it "Nian".

The development history of Spring Festival travel rush.

In the early days of observing images and time, "Yin Hui with a barrel handle" is the beginning of a year. Spring has returned to the earth, and "Yin Hui with barrel handle" has started again, and everything has taken on a new look, thus opening a new cycle. 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.

In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, family reunion, celebration, entertainment and food.