1, the Spring Festival is the evolution of the year from the first year of prayer rituals, 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, held a festival to pay tribute to the gods of heaven and earth, the ancestors of the grace, pray for a good year.

2, the ancient rituals of the situation is difficult to know, but still can be found from the later generations of the festival rituals of some of the remains of the ancient customs. Such as Lingnan part of the inheritance in the new year on the first day of the year to worship the custom of the New Year, New Year's grand grand worship of God and ancestor festival activities, which can be seen in the ancient times of the first year of the year to pray for the traces of the festival.

3, the primitive sense of the first year is the spring, spring is the beginning of everything, the meaning of all the more raw, meaning that a new cycle has opened, so the spring for the "beginning of the year" (the first year), that is, "the age of the festival". Lichun year festival to celebrate a series of festivals not only constitute the framework of the later years of the first festival, and its folk function has been survived to this day.