In different dynasties, the dates and names of the Spring Festival were different. After the Revolution of 1911 in China, the Spring Festival was fixed on the first day of the first lunar month every year, and it was officially called "Spring Festival", which has been used ever since.
In fact, among the people, there has been a "taste of the year" since the sacrifice of the kitchen stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and it didn't end until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month (people call the 15th day of the first full moon of the year the Lantern Festival, which is a festival to eat Yuanxiao and watch lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns), with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax of the festival. For thousands of years, the Spring Festival has been a traditional festival for people of all ethnic groups in China.
The Han Dynasty is an era in which science and superstition go hand in hand. People gradually come out of primitive beliefs, and some areas even broke the blind worship of nature since the pre-Qin period, creating conditions for rich festivals. Such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival and other basic contents are shaped in this period.
Until the Tang dynasty, festivals were liberated from the original taboos, superstitions and mysteries, and entertainment and etiquette activities occupied a dominant position. For example, firecrackers were originally said to exorcise ghosts, and later they symbolized joy. Today's festivals coincide with the special dates in the lunar calendar, probably because people often hold some activities on these special days, which are passed down from generation to generation year after year, thus forming today's festivals.