The Spring Festival, is the first lunar month, also called the lunar year, commonly known as "Spring Festival". This is our country folk ceremonious, the most lively a traditional festival. The history of the Spring Festival is very long, it originated in the shells period year the sacrifices of the tail and head of the ancestor worship of god. According to the lunar calendar in China, the first day called ganjitsu, yuan Chen, yuan is, new moon, such as New Year's day, commonly known as day, in the period of the republic of China, to switch to the Gregorian calendar, calendar January 1st as New Year's day, the lunar calendar January 1st is called the Spring Festival.
春节，是农历正月初一，又叫阴历年，俗称“过年”。这是我国民间最隆重、最热闹的一个传统节日。春节的历史很悠久，它起源于殷商时期年头岁尾的祭神祭祖活动。按照我国农历，正月初一古称元日、元辰、元正、元朔、元旦等，俗称年初一，到了民国时期，改用公历，公历的一月一日称为元旦，把农历的一月一日叫春节。
The Spring Festival, means spring is coming, vientiane update vegetation recovery, and to start a new round of sowing and reaping season. People just had snow vegetation withering of the long winter, has long been looking forward to spring days, when the New Year coming, it is only natural that joy singing and dancing to welcome the holiday.
Customs in one thousand years, people make colorful celebrations are abnormal, from the 23rd day of the lunar year 30 each year, the folk this period is called "chun", also known as "sweep dust day", sweep the dust cleaning before the Spring Festival, is known as the traditional habits of our people.
春节到了，意味着春天将要来临，万象复苏草木更新，新一轮播种和收获季节又要开始。人们刚刚度过冰天雪地草木凋零的漫漫寒冬，早就盼望着春暖花开的日子，当新春到来之际，自然要充满喜悦载歌载舞地迎接这个节日。
千百年来，人们使年俗庆祝活动变得异常丰富多彩，每年从农历腊月二十三日起到年三十，民间把这段时间叫做“迎春日”，也叫“扫尘日”，在春节前扫尘搞卫生，是我国人民素有的传统习惯。
Then families prepare necessities and first ten days or so, people begin to busy purchasing items, including special purchases serve fish or fowl, tea wine sauce, the north-south nuts, sugar, fruit, bait to shop is enough, to prepare some Chinese New Year when the gifts when visiting relatives and friends, children need to acquire new clothes new hat, ready to wear at New Year.
然后就是家家户户准备年货，节前十天左右，人们就开始忙于采购物品，年货包括鸡鸭鱼肉、茶酒油酱、南北炒货、糖饵果品，都要采买充足，还要准备一些过年时走亲访友时赠送的礼品，小孩子要添置新衣新帽，准备过年时穿。
Before the Spring Festival to paste on the door of the residence red paper yellow word New Year message, also is the Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. House posted colorful auspicious New Year pictures, xinlingshouqiao girls cut out a beautiful window on the window, the door hang red lanterns or stick to everyone, and the god of wealth, goalkeeper like, everyone can also sell, passers-by a read down, that is blessing to all of these activities is to add enough festive atmosphere for the festival.
在春节前要在住宅的大门上粘贴红纸黄字的新年寄语，也就是用红纸写成的春联。屋里张贴色彩鲜艳寓意吉祥的年画，心灵手巧的姑娘们剪出美丽的窗花贴在窗户上，门前挂大红灯笼或贴福字及财神、门神像等，福字还可以倒贴，路人一念福倒了，也就是福气到了，所有这些活动都是要为节日增添足够的喜庆气氛
Another name called the Spring Festival Chinese New Year. In the legend of the past, the year is a bad luck for people of imaginary animals. In a result. Trees, grass bouquet DiaoBi not born; After years, all things grow, flowers everywhere. How can in the past? Need firecrackers boom, so have the custom of burning firecrackers, which is part of a foil lively scene and a way.
春节的另一名称叫过年。在过去的传说中，年是一种为人们带来坏运气的想象中的动物。年一来。树木凋蔽，百草不生；年一过，万物生长，鲜花遍地。年如何才能过去呢？需用鞭炮轰 ，于是有了燃鞭炮的习俗，这其实也是烘托热闹场面的又一种方式
The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful holiday, is also a family reunion day, leave the child to go home during the Spring Festival together. Night before New Year, is the twelfth month old year 30 night, also known as the New Year's eve, also called reunion night, at the time of this new era, shou sui is one of the most important customs in activity, New Year's eve night, her family together through years shou sui, gather carouse, sharing happiness, in the north have the tradition of eating dumplings on New Year's eve, is dumplings and first, and the word is; Dumplings, dumplings and harmonics, and hand in a get together, and take more old hand. In the south have the habit of the Chinese New Year to eat rice cakes, sweet sticky rice cake, the symbol of the New Year life sweet, backgammon.
Waiting for the first ring crow, or bells ringing in the New Year, firecrackers exploded on the streets, noise, the jubilant house, a New Year begins, men, women and children are in one's best, best wishes to the family of the elderly birthday first, and give children lucky money in section, special dinner, 2, 3 began to see relatives friends, happy New Year to each other, congratulations wish, to say a happy New Year, kung hei fat choi, congratulations, such as New Year's day good words, ancestor worship and other activities.
春节是个欢乐祥和的节日，也是亲人团聚的日子，离家在外的孩子在过春节时都要回家欢聚。过年的前一夜，就是旧年的腊月三十夜，也叫除夕，又叫团圆夜，在这新旧交替的时候，守岁是最重要的年俗活动之一，除夕晚上，全家老小都一起熬年守岁，欢聚酣饮，共享天伦之乐，北方地区在除夕有吃饺子的习俗，饺子的作法是先和面，和字就是合；饺子的饺和交谐音，合和交有相聚之意，又取更岁交子之意。在南方有过年吃年糕的习惯，甜甜的粘粘的年糕，象征新一年生活甜蜜蜜，步步高。
等待第一声鸡啼响起，或是新年的钟声敲过，街上鞭炮齐鸣，响声此起彼伏，家家喜气洋洋，新的一年开始了，男女老少都穿着节日盛装，先给家族中的长者拜年祝寿，节中还有给儿童压岁钱，吃团年饭，初二、三就开始走亲戚看朋友，相互拜年，道贺祝福，说些恭贺新喜、恭喜发财、恭喜、过年好等话，祭祖等活动。
Festival atmosphere is not only in families, are around the streets, and in some places in the streets and the lion dance, the dragon, on jan, flower market, temple fairs and other customs. Lanterns during the city, visitors streets, very busy, bustling, straight to make to the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival after the Spring Festival is really finished.
节日的热烈气氛不仅洋溢在各家各户，也充满各地的大街小巷，一些地方的街市上还有舞狮子，耍龙灯，演社火，游花市，逛庙会等习俗。这期间花灯满城，游人满街，热闹非凡，盛况空前，直要闹到正月十五元宵节过后，春节才算真正结束了。
