China is the oldest multi-ethnic country. Different historical periods of different nations have their own cultural traditions and customs to determine its own New Year\'s Day, that is, the words \",\" to correct the beginning of a time. Zhuanxu Dili and Xia are Mengchun day for the yuan, that is, the use of the traditional Chinese calendar Jian Yin to the first lunar month, the first for New Year\'s Day; the use of the Shang Dynasty Yin Li, Yin Li Jian ugly, with the first in December for the Lunar New Year\'s Day; Zhou use week calendar, week calendar Son built to early November for the Lunar New Year\'s Day; use Qin Li Qin, Qin Li Jian-Hai, the first for a Lunar New Year\'s Day; the Western Han Dynasty are still using pre-Qin calendar, the beginning the first year of Emperor (AD 104 years) to switch to Sima Qian, Luo Hong create the beginning of the next calendar, once again using the built-yin of the lunar calendar to the first lunar month, the first for New Year\'s Day. After the exception of Wang Mang and Wei had to switch to Yin Jian ugly calendar, and post-TANG King son when to switch to built-week calendar, all dynasties are the use of traditional Chinese calendar to the late Qing dynasty.
\"Spring Festival\" the word, in different historical periods, there are different specific. Han, it was the 24 solar terms of the first spring called \"Spring.\" Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was the entire spring called \"Spring.\"
After the victory of the Revolution, Nanjing interim government to \"shun farming season\" and \"ease of Statistics\", to provide for the civil use of traditional Chinese calendar, in government agencies, factories, mines, schools and organizations in the implementation of the Gregorian calendar to the Gregorian calendar for the January 1 New Year\'s Day. But generally known as the Gregorian calendar on January 1 for \"solar calendar year,\" and that it will continue to the first lunar month, the first day referred to as the \"New Year\'s Day.\"
September 27, 1949, Chinese People\'s Political Consultative first plenary session of the world through the use of common era calendar, the Gregorian calendar that is, as of January 1 New Year\'s Day, for the New Year; because the first lunar month, usually the first in the beginning of spring before and after the Lunar New Year is the beginning and therefore must as \"Spring Festival.\"
Spring generally refers to the first New Year\'s Eve and New Year. But in private, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival is the eighth of the fourth month fromFestival or the Prince of
23until the fifteenth day, of which the first New Year\'s Eve and New Year for the climax.
In the traditional Chinese New Year festive period, the majority of China\'s Han and ethnic minorities have to be held in a variety of activities and celebration. These activities are designed for worship deities, worshiping ancestors, Fu Ying Jubilee then, pray for a good harvest for the main content. Activities are rich and varied, with strong ethnic characteristics.
中国是个古老的多民族国家。不同的历史时期的不同的民族都曾经根据自己的文化传统和风俗习惯确定过自己的元旦，即改为“正朔”，改正月初一的时间。颛顼帝和夏代都以孟春正月为元，即使用建寅的夏历，以农历正月初一为元旦；商代使用殷历，殷历建丑，以农历十二月初一为元旦；周代使用周历，周历建成子，以农历十一月初一为元旦；秦代使用秦历，秦历建亥，以农历初一为元旦；西汉前期仍然使用秦历，汉武帝太初元年（公元104年）改用司马迁、洛下闳创制的太初历，又重新使用建寅的夏历，以农历正月初一为元旦。以后除王莽和魏明帝一度改用建丑的殷历，唐武后和肃宗时改用建子的周历外，各朝代均使用夏历至清朝末年。
“春节”这一词，在不同的历史时期，还有不同的特指。汉朝时，人们把二十四节气的第一个立春称“春节”。南北朝时，人们把整个春季叫“春节”。
辛亥革命胜利后，南京临时政府为了“顺农时”和“便于统计”，规定在民间使用夏历，在政府机关、厂矿、学校和团体中实行公历，以公历的元月一日为元旦。但一般人称公历元月一日为“阳历年”，仍把农历正月一日初一称“元旦”。
1949年9月27日，中国人民政治协商会议第一届全体会议通过使用世界上通用的公历纪元，把公历即阳历的元月一日定为元旦，为新年；因为农历正月初一通常都在立春前后，因而把农历正月初一定为“春节”。
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春节一般指除夕和正月初一。但在民间，传统意义上的春节是指从腊月初八的腊祭或腊月二十三的祭灶，一直到正月十五，其中以除夕和正月初一为高潮。
在春节这一传统节日期间，我国的汉族和大多数少数民族都有要举行各种活动以示庆祝。这些活动均以祭祀神佛、祭奠祖先、除旧布新、迎禧接福、祈求丰年为主要内容。活动丰富多彩，带有浓郁的民族特色。