The Spring Festival is the grandest and most characteristic traditional festival of Chinese folklore, and it is one of the grandest and most lively ancient festivals in China. Generally refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, is the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". But in folklore, the traditional meaning of the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year's Eve from the first eight of the Lunar New Year's wax festival or Lunar New Year's twenty-third or twenty-fourth of the sacrificial stove, until the first fifteen months of the first month of the New Year, which to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the New Year for the climax. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly to worship gods and buddhas, pay homage to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome joy and receive blessings, and pray for a good year. The activities are colorful and have strong ethnic characteristics. There is also the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival in Tianjin. Before the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, Tianjin people have the custom of asking for Chinese knots in Qiaoxiangge on the Ancient Culture Street in Tianjin, taking Qiaoxiang as the meaning of good fortune.　　Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han Chinese, but also Manchu, Mongolia, Yao, Zhuang, white, mountain, Herzhe, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li and other dozens of ethnic minorities also have the custom of the Spring Festival, only the form of the festival has its own characteristics.　　Spring Festival has different names in different times. In the pre-Qin called "on the day", "yuan day", "change the year", "dedicate the year" and so on; to the two Han period, and was called "three dynasties", "the first day of the year", "the first day", "the first day"; Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties called the "yuan Chen", "yuan day", "yuan head", "year dynasty", etc.; to the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming, it is called "New Year's Day", "Yuan", "Year Day", "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan "The Qing Dynasty, has been called "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day".　　Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has continued to this day.　　On May 20, 2006, the Spring Festival folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. [edit paragraph] Spring Festival from the Spring Festival ancient name "first day", "the first of the year", "three yuan", etc. December 31, 1911, the Republic of China Hubei military government in the release of the "". Ministry of Internal Affairs on the Republic of China to use the solar calendar encyclical", clearly will be called "Spring Festival". To September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference further clarified the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the "Spring Festival", "Spring Festival" name formally included in the Chinese holiday code.　　The oracle bone character for "Nian" is written with the character "Wo" on the upper part and "Ren" on the lower part. The character for "year" in gold script is also the same as the oracle bone script, which is also derived from the characters for "harvest" and "man". In the Small Seal Script, the character for "year" is written as "上禾下千", and in the Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字-禾部), it reads "年" (year), which means "year" (year) is the year in which the grains are ripe. It is pronounced from "禾" and "千". The character for "man" in the Small Seal Script was changed to "thousand", which is why Xu Shen used it, while the character for "thousand" was originally for a decorated person, which is not a contradiction in terms. "Wo" is a general term for grains, and cannot be misinterpreted as only "wheat". The good or bad of the year, mainly by the growth and harvest of "Wo" to determine the situation, and now has been unearthed in the oracle bone inscriptions in the "Wo" character, almost all look heavy was bent over, it can be seen that it symbolizes a bumper crop of cereal production. What is the meaning of the character "人" under the character "年"? From the oracle bone inscriptions, the character "年" seems to be a man holding grain on his head.　　There is also a legend that in ancient China, there was a monster called "Nian", which had tentacles and was very fierce. "The Nian lived deep under the sea for many years, and only climbed ashore on New Year's Eve to devour livestock and hurt people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, the people of villages and hamlets fled to the mountains with their children and old people to avoid the harm of the beast "Nian". One New Year's Eve, from outside the village came a begging old man. Folks a rush panic scene, only the east end of the village, an old woman gave the old man some food, and advised him to quickly go to the mountains to avoid the "year" beasts, the old man stroked his beard and laughed: "Granny if you let me stay at home one night, I'm sure that the 'year'! The old man smiled with his beard and said, "If you let me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive away the 'Year' beast. The old woman still continue to persuade, begging old man smiled but did not say.　In the middle of the night, the Beast of the Year came into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from that of previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had a big red paper on the door, and the candles in the house were burning brightly. "The beast shivered and gave a strange cry. Near the door, the yard suddenly came "bang bang pop" sound, "year" trembling, and do not dare to come forward. It turns out that Nian is afraid of the color red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door of the mother-in-law's house was wide open, only to see an old man wearing a red robe in the courtyard laughing. "Nian was so shocked that he fled in disarray. The next day was the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the people who had returned from their refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. It was then that the old woman came to her senses and hurriedly told the townspeople about the old man's promise. This story soon spread in the surrounding villages, people know the way to drive away the "New Year" beast. (Hakka legend) Since then every year on New Year's Eve, every family stick red couplets, firecrackers; household candles bright, to keep the night. Early in the morning on the first day, but also to go to friends and relatives to say hello. This custom is more and more widely spread, and has become the grandest traditional festival of Chinese folklore.　　This statement is probably a descendant of the tradition of New Year's Day. It is unlikely to be the origin of the word "year".　　The original name of the Spring Festival was "New Year's Day", and in the Sui Dynasty, Du Taiqing said in "Five Candles": "The first month of the year is the end of the month, and the first day of the month is the first day of the year, which is also known as the first day of the month, and the first day of the month is also known as the first day of the month, which is also known as the first day of the month. The original meaning of "Yuan" is "head", which is later extended to "beginning", because this day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring, the first day of the first month, so it is called "Sanyuan"; because this day is still the age of the morning, the month of the morning, the day of the morning, so also known as "three dynasties"; and because it is the first day of the first day, so also known as "Yuanshuo".　　Basically, there are a considerable number of Chinese countries and regions will be the Lunar New Year as a public **** holiday.