Chinese New Year

Spring Festival
Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. It's enjoyed by Chinese and many foreigners also like it.During it people get together and visit their frieds and relatives.They usually say"Happy new year''to each other.Children will be given a lot of money by their parents or relatives.


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Spring Festival and the year concept, the initial meaning comes from the agriculture, the ancient times people is called the valley growth cycle "the year", "Shuowen. Standing grain department ": "Year, Gu Shouye: . Has produced the lunar calendar in the summer business time, take a moon segment of cycle as the month, a year division is 12 months, each month take does not see the moon that day as a new moon, in first lunar month the first day of a lunar month period of time from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m is called the beginning of the year, namely a year start, also calls the year, the year name is starts from the Chou Dynasty, only then official has fixedly gotten down to the Western Han Dynasty, continues continuously to today. But the ancient times in first lunar month first day are called "the New Year's Day", after Chinese modern times 1911 Revolution victory, Nanjing Provisional Government in order to comply with the farmer season and is advantageous for the statistics, stipulated in the folk use lunar calendar, in the governmental agency, the factories and mines, the school and the association implements the male experience, take male experience on January 1 as the New Year's Day, the lunar calendar in first lunar month first day calls the Spring Festival. Spring Festival to, had meant the spring is going to approach, all phenomena on earth recovers the vegetation to renew, new turn of sowing seeds and the harvest season must start. The people just passed the world of ice and snow vegetation on the wane endless cold winter, is already hoping the bloomy spring day, when when the early spring arrival, must fill naturally joyfully sings and dances greets this holiday. On September 27, 1949, new China was founded, in the Chinese people political consultative conference first session of plenary session, passed in the use world the general male experience era, decided as male experience on January 1 the New Year's Day, was named positive all previous years; Lunar calendar in first lunar month first day usually all around spring beginning, thus first day decides as lunar calendar in first lunar month "the Spring Festival", is named cloudy all previous years. In the traditional significance Spring Festival is refers from the December eighth day sacrificially offers a sacrifice to or in December 23 offering sacrifice to the kitchen god, always to the first lunar month 15, take the lunar New Year's Eve and in the first lunar month first day as the high tide. In Spring Festival this tradition holiday period, our country's Han Nationality and the majority national minority all have must hold each kind of celebration, these activities mostly take sacrificial offering god Buddha, holds a memorial service for the ancestor, abolishes the old and establishes the new, to welcome auspiciousness to meet the luck, the hope good harvest year as the main content. The form of action is richly colorful, has the rich national characteristic.