A brief introduction to the Spring Festival (bilingual version) is as follows:

The Spring Festival?

Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year.

Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West.

The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the GREgorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February. from late January to early February.

To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. calendar.

But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.

Spring Festival is the most importantand popular festival in China.Before Spring Festival ,the people usually clean and decorate their houses.

Spring Festival is the most important and popular festival in China. Before Spring Festival ,the people usually clean and decorate their houses.

And they go to the Flower Fairs to buy some flowers.During Spring Festival ,the adults usually give lucky money to children. During Spring Festival ,the adults usually give lucky money to children.People often get together and have a big meal.Some people eat dumpling for dinner.

The Flower Fairs to buy some flowers.During Spring Festival ,the adults usually give lucky money to children.

Long ago, the most important festival in Chinese history was the Spring Festival and it was said to be the Chinese New Year. For the Chinese, it was as important as Christmas in the West. The date of this annual celebration was set on the lunar equivalent of the Gregorian calendar, so the holiday changed dates from late January to early February.?

For yellow-skinned Chinese, this explanation actually begins on the eve of the Spring Festival ending on the first full moon day of 15. And the first full moon night is generally known as the Lantern Festival, meaning that the Spring Festival ends on the official holiday time in most of the country.?

The Spring Festival is the most important and popular festival in China. A long time ago, people often needed to organize and clean their rooms for the Spring Festival. And go to the flower market to buy some flowers. During the Spring Festival, adults often had to give their children New Year's money. People often had to get together for a meal, and some people would eat dumplings at midnight.

Customs of the Spring Festival:

Busy year

Nian soldiers and bandits to refine the end of the 23rd or 24th, in folklore known as the small year, is from the small year, people will begin to busy year. It is not exclusively referred to as a day, and the days known as the New Year are different due to local customs.

The main folk activities during the New Year include dust sweeping and offering sacrifices to the stove. Prior to the Qing Dynasty, the traditional folk day for sacrificing stoves on the Lunar New Year was the 24th day of the Lunar New Year.

From the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in order to save money, by the way, Zaowangwang also worshipped, so the folk people in the northern region followed suit, more in the twenty-third day of the lunar month to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Most parts of the South, still maintains the old tradition of Lunar New Year on the 24th day of the month.

Sweeping the dust

Busy year before the year is mainly to get rid of the old as the theme of the activities of the new, sweeping the dust is one of the customs of the old before the new. Proverbs say that the 24th day of the lunar month, dust sweeping house. At the end of the year, on the 23rd and 24th of the year, they officially start to make preparations to welcome the New Year.

Sweeping the dust is the end of the year cleaning, the north said sweeping room, the south said sweeping house. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding and curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of the six villages, dust and brush the dust and cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and dark ditches.

There is a joyful atmosphere of hygiene and cleanliness everywhere.