The beginning of the Chinese lunar year is called the Spring Festival.

The Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. It was started by Yu and Shun.

Shun ascended the throne as the Son of Heaven and led his men to worship heaven and earth.

From then on, people regarded this day as the beginning of the year and the first day of the first lunar month.

This is the origin of the Lunar New Year, later called the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival used to be also called New Year's Day.

The month in which the Spring Festival is located is called January.

However, the dates of New Year's Day in China are not consistent throughout the ages: for example, the Xia Dynasty used the first month as the first month, the Shang Dynasty used the twelfth lunar month as the first month, after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, October was used as the first month, and the early Han Dynasty followed the Qin calendar.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che felt that the calendar was too chaotic, so he ordered his ministers Gongsun Qing and Sima Qian to create a "solar calendar", which stipulated that the first month of the lunar calendar should be the first day of the year, and the first day of the first lunar month should be the first day of the year, which is New Year's Day.

Since then, China has continued to use the lunar calendar (also known as the lunar calendar) until the end of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for 2080 years.

After the Revolution of 1911, people began to use the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) to calculate the year, so January 1st of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day" and the first day of the first lunar month was called "Spring Festival".

On September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference decided to adopt the world's common AD chronology while establishing the People's Republic of China.

In order to distinguish the two "years" of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, and because the "beginning of spring" with 24 solar terms in a year happens to be before and after the lunar year, the first day of January in the solar calendar is called "New Year's Day", and the first day of the first lunar month is officially renamed "Spring Festival"

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The earth goes around the sun once, which is called a year on the calendar, and the cycle goes on and on, never ending.

However, according to the different seasonal climates of spring, summer, autumn and winter, people use the first day of the first lunar month as the beginning of the year.

Every year after midnight (twelve o'clock) on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month (the twenty-ninth day of the small month), even if the Spring Festival has officially arrived, it is also a day to pray for good luck.

Offering sacrifices to heaven and praying for good years has also become one of the main contents of annual customs.

Moreover, gods such as the Kitchen God, the Door God, the God of Wealth, the God of Joy, the Well God, etc., all prepare to enjoy the incense in the world during the New Year.

New Year's Eve is the night of reunion. It is difficult for Chinese people to understand the knot of reunion. Even if they are far away from home, they still have to rush home on New Year's Eve to have New Year's Eve dinner and watch the New Year's Eve.

Although the New Year's Day is held on the first day of the first lunar month, people have been busy preparing for the New Year's Day since the New Year's Day. It is people's common wish to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. People welcome the New Year with grand ceremonies and enthusiasm.

, welcome spring!

In folk belief, the first to fourth day of the lunar month are the carnival days of the New Year, and normal life resumes on the fifth day of the lunar month.

The fifth day of the lunar month is also called "Powu". The customary activity on this day is to "give away the poor". For businesses, businesses open on the fifth day of the lunar month.

The activities of the first lunar month gradually calmed down until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month... China is a multi-ethnic country, and each ethnic group celebrates the New Year in different ways.

The customs and habits of the Han, Manchu and Korean people during the Spring Festival are similar. The whole family gets together, people eat rice cakes, dumplings and various sumptuous meals, decorate with lanterns, set off firecrackers and wish each other well.

Celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dancing, dragon dancing, stilt walking, and land boat running.

In some areas, people continue to worship ancestors and gods in the past, praying for good weather, peace and a good harvest in the new year.

The ancient Mongolians called the Spring Festival "White Festival" and the first month Baiyue, which means good luck and good luck.

Tibetans celebrate the Tibetan New Year.

The Hui, Uyghur, Kazakh, etc. people celebrate the "Eid al-Adha".

The Spring Festival is also a grand festival for the Miao, Tong, Yao and other ethnic groups.

A list of customs in various parts of China during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Day in Wucheng County, Zhejiang Province, grass is tied up on long poles, lit on fire, and gongs and drums are beaten, which is called "Qingtian Silkworm".

He also lit sky lanterns on poles until March 3rd.

Ningbo eats bean porridge after worshiping ancestors on New Year's Day.

Before closing in the evening, there is another "closing gun".

During the New Year in Shaoxing, guests are served "chawan tea" with olives and kumquats, as well as tea eggs, which is called "holding ingots".

Before going out on New Year's Day, people in Xiamen, Fujian Province, must pray to the Jade Emperor in the air, which is called "sacrifice to the god."

In the morning, flowers and fruits are used to worship the gods, while at noon, animals, sweet wine, and a bowl of spring rice are used to worship the gods.

Spring rice is white rice with spring flowers made of red paper.

The Fujian pronunciation of "spring" and "leftover" are homophonic, so spring rice is a good snack that means "more than enough every year".

The fourth day of the Lunar New Year in Zhangzhou is called "Jie Hao". In addition to going to the temple to burn incense, you also need to prepare a candy and pastry box, called a "recommendation box", and offer it in the hall to welcome the gods as they descend.

In Haifeng, Guangdong Province, when the younger generation wishes their elders New Year greetings, the elders will reward the younger generation with red envelopes or oranges.

Teochew Spring Festival diet includes vegetable cakes, bean curd balls, fermented buns, fried tubes, and five-fruit soup.

On the night of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, every family lights a lamp and prepares a tank of water, which is called "Waiting for the Divine Water".

On the first day of the first lunar month in Dongguan, people worship the gods and ask for boiled taro with sugar, which is called "wealth and wealth".

In Jiangning County, Jiangsu Province, families put up pictures of roosters on their doorways on New Year's Day.

Many people from Wu County come to Tongyuan Temple to worship Guanyin on New Year's Day.

Suzhou custom: On the morning of New Year's Day, three firecrackers are required to open the door, which is called "high promotion three levels".

When going out in the early morning, you must follow the direction specified on the almanac, which is called the "Happy God's Direction".

And when you go to the Chenghuang, Tutu and other temples to burn incense, you must go through ten temples and then stop, which is called "burning incense in ten temples".

From New Year's Day to Lantern Festival, huge coals are burned in the stove, which is called "Happy Group".

According to Zhun'an people's legend, eating glutinous rice balls can attract the God of Wealth, so they start making glutinous rice balls from the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and eat glutinous rice balls every day until the Lantern Festival.