The Spring Festival originated in Yu Shun period. Yu Shun said this is the oldest story about the origin of the Spring Festival. It is said that more than 4000 years ago, Tang Yao gave Yu Shun a meditation position, and Yu Shun acceded to the throne and sat in the temple, which happened to be the first day of the lunar calendar. He led ministers to worship heaven and earth and succeed him as the son of heaven. This is the origin of the New Year, that is, the beginning of the Spring Festival.

After the Revolution of 1911, in the first year of the Republic of China, it was decided that China, like other countries in the world, would adopt the Gregorian calendar and change the first day of the lunar new year to the Spring Festival.

1 On September 27th, 949, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference passed the Law on the Chronology of the AD, which named the first day of the first lunar month as the Spring Festival and the Gregorian calendar1as the New Year's Day.