The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year's Day, etc. It is also known as the Chinese New Year or the Chinese New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the ancient era of praying for the first year of the year and offering sacrifices. All things are based on heaven, and people are based on their ancestors. We pray for the New Year to worship and honor the heavens and ancestors, and to return to the beginning. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries rich historical and cultural heritage in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various celebration activities are held throughout the country, with strong regional characteristics. These activities are mainly about removing the old and renovating the old, dispelling evil spirits and fighting disasters, worshipping gods and ancestors, and praying for good fortune. They are rich in forms and reflect the essence of traditional Chinese culture.
In the early era of observing and timing, the "Dou Bing Hui Yin" was used as the beginning of the year based on the changing stars. The "Dou Bing Hui Yin" is a spring return in the earth, starting all over again, with everything renewed and a new cycle opened. In traditional agricultural societies, the beginning of the Spring Festival is of great significance and has derived a large number of related customs and traditions. In historical development, although different calendars were used and the dates of festivals at the beginning of the year were different, the festival framework and many folk customs have been inherited. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it usually ends at least on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reuniting with family and friends, celebrating and entertaining, and eating.
The Spring Festival is a grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with a hundred festival years as its head. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions around the world also have customs to celebrate the New Year. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese New Year as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction. The Spring Festival, together with the Tomb sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as China's four major traditional festivals.
Extracted from Baidu Baike - Spring Festival