The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the New Year, New Year, Sui Dan, etc. It is also called the New Year or the Great New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the ancient times of praying for the new year and offering sacrifices. All things are based on heaven and people are based on their ancestors. Praying for the new year and offering sacrifices, respecting heaven and following ancestors, and repaying the original and returning to the beginning are also the origins of the Spring Festival. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations are held all over the country, with strong regional characteristics. These activities are mainly about getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, exorcising evil spirits and disasters, worshiping gods and ancestors, and praying for blessings and the new year. The forms are rich and colorful, and they embody the essence of Chinese traditional culture.

In the early era of observing the stars and giving time, the year was determined according to the movement of the stars. When the handle of the dipper returns to the tiger, the earth returns to spring, and everything is renewed, and a new cycle begins. In the traditional agricultural society, the beginning of the spring year has important significance, and a large number of related festival cultures have been derived. Although different calendars were used and the dates of the New Year festivals were different in the course of historical development, the festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it is generally not over until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is a folk festival that combines worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reuniting with relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating.

As the first of the hundred festivals, the Spring Festival is a grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese Spring Festival as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction. The Spring Festival is known as China's four major traditional festivals together with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia - Spring Festival