Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Chinese New Year in the cultural circle, commonly known as "Nian Festival", the traditional name for the New Year, Nian, New Year, but verbally also called the year, celebrate the New Year, the New Year, is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

Spring Festival, is the beginning of the lunar year, the Spring Festival is another name called the Spring Festival, is China's most grand, the most lively, the most important of an ancient traditional festival, but also the Chinese unique festival. It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has continued until today. Spring Festival generally refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. But in the folk, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival refers to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the twelfth lunar month twenty-three or twenty-four sacrificial stoves, until the fifteenth day of the first month, which culminates in the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. To celebrate this festival, in the thousands of years of historical development, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which are still passed down to the present. During the traditional festival of the Spring Festival, the Han nationality and most ethnic minorities in our country have to hold a variety of celebration activities, most of these activities to worship God and Buddha, worship ancestors, remove the old and the new, welcome the jubilee and pray for a good year as the main content. The forms of activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. On May 20, 2006, the "Spring Festival" folk custom was approved by The State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.