The formulation of the ancient calendar provides the prerequisites for the creation of festivals, and primitive beliefs and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of annual festivals. The Spring Festival is evolved from the first year of the year to pray for the year of sacrifice, ancient times people in a year (year) after the end of the agricultural work in the beginning of the new year of the first year of the year, held sacrifices to pay tribute to the gods of the heavens and the earth, the ancestors of the benevolence of the gods, and to pray for the year of good fortune. Ancient rituals of the situation is difficult to know, but still can be found in the later generations of the festival some of the remains of the ancient custom.

The origin and development of the Spring Festival is a process of gradual formation, refinement and popularization. As an important part of traditional Chinese culture, Spring Festival culture reflects the profound Chinese cultural heritage and records the rich and colorful social life of ancient people.

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The Spring Festival not only focuses on the ideological beliefs, ideal aspirations, life and recreation, and cultural psychology of the Chinese people, but also serves as an ecstatic display of prayers for blessings and calamities, as well as dietary and recreational activities. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese New Year as a legal holiday in their entirety or in some of their cities. The Spring Festival is known as one of China's four major traditional festivals, along with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Spring Festival folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.