1, the Spring Festival and the concept of the year's initial meaning from agriculture, people in ancient times the annual cycle of the grain known as the year, said the Ministry of Wo year grain cooked also, in the Xia and Shang Dynasties produced the summer calendar, the cycle of the moon cycle for the month, a year is divided into twelve months, each month to not see the moon for the day for the first day of the first month of the first day of the month of the Zi Shi known as the year of the first, that is, the beginning of a year is also called the year.

2, the name of the year is from the Zhou Dynasty, to the Western Han Dynasty to be officially fixed, has continued to the present, the Spring Festival, one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, is traditionally the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival is commonly known as the New Year's Day, the traditional name of the "New Year", "Dainian! ", "Tianla", "New Year", orally also known as "Dusui", "celebrate the New Year "and" New Year "," New Year's Eve ".