As one of the oldest traditional festivals in China, the Spring Festival embodies the national feelings and sense of identity of China people, and shows the profoundness of Chinese civilization and the profoundness of China cultural tradition.

Joy, peace and happiness are the common aspirations of all China people. These aspirations are reflected in the culture carried by the program in the Spring Festival Evening program, which meets the needs of the audience. CCTV chose the special day of New Year's Eve to hold a festival party celebrating the whole country, and naturally took "unity", "joy" and "harmony" as its unchanging theme.

The concept of "year" comes from the ancient calendar, and Pangu and Sanhui all have the concept of "year". : "the emperor of heaven began to make branch names to determine the age." "sui" means "the subject" (the original branch), also known as "sui xing" and "tai sui" At the age of 60, the running cycle is 60 Jiazi (chronology of branches and branches), and it starts again and again. In the process of inheritance and development, future generations simplified the multi-syllable terms of this group of years into one word, and their comparison with simplified branches was recorded in Erya and Historical Records.

The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provided decisive conditions for the emergence of festivals, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture were important factors for the formation of New Year festivals. The Spring Festival evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year. In ancient times, people held sacrificial activities at the beginning of the new year after the end of farming at the age of one (year) to pay homage to the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth and pray for a good year. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial ceremonies is unknown, we can still find some ancient custom relics from later festivals.