The Spring Festival known as "festival",the Chinese nation is the most solemn preach to celebrate the Spring Festival holiday series. Since the first year of emperor the beginning, beginning with summer years (the lunar) for the first day of the first month "at" (the "year"), the date of the festival this fixed down, continue today. Festival times, "New Year's day". 1911 years after the revolution, began to the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) JiNian, hence say calendar January 1 as "New Year's day", said the first day of the lunar year for "Spring Festival". When old festival, also known as "traditional festival". They has a long history, spread wide, for great popularity, mass, even the characteristics of honor. The day of the festival is ChuJiuBuXin. Although the festival for the first day of the lunar year, but the festival's activities but and more than the first day of the first month this day. From the twelfth 23 (or 24) small festival on, people began to "busy" houses, shampoo and bath, and preparing for the festival appliances, etc. All of these activities, there is a common theme, namely "special". People with big ceremony and enthusiasm to greet the New Year, and meet the spring.
Festival is also offering wish the day of prayer. The ancients refers to a ripe for 一“ millet in ", the grain harvest for "a year". Early zhou dynasty, that has emerged of the celebration of the annual harvest activities. Later, actually became the prayer in the main contents of the call. And, such as kitchen, goalkeeper, mammon, like god, JingShen as the way the gods, during the festival, and earth for incense. People like to take this opportunity to thank the gods of the attention, and wishes for in a New Year can get more bliss. Festival or family reunion, the days of king diyi kiss, fathers. The New Year's eve, the family gathered, eat "reunion dinner", the elder give children distribute "lucky money", the family TuanZuo "shou sui". YuanRi son/years time, firecrackers neat ring, resigned, the activities of the old New Year up to the climax. A salute to his burning incense, and heaven and earth, and the chief fathers, and in turn give thine elder New Year, and to congratulate each other wayward relatives and friends. Yuan in the future, starts to go visit family and friends, gift giving, to a New Year. Festival but also people entertainment gala day. YuanRi later, all sorts of rich and colorful entertainment to carry out activities: play the lion, WuLongDeng, stilted, juggling the yangge dance, theatre, in New Year Spring Festival to celebrate the Spring Festival add rich festival atmosphere. At this point, is worth "year" before, during and after the winter days will have a big ceremony, NiuYingChun whip a wish for the good, the grain harvest. All kinds of activities to jan on January 15, once again, the formation of upsurge.
Therefore, the collection prayer, congratulations, the entertainment is a body festival festival became the most grand holiday of the Chinese nation. And today, in addition to offer a sacrificial activities such as god than ever before to fade beyond, the festival's main custom, are in good condition to inheritance and development. The Spring Festival is the fine tradition of the Chinese national culture of the important carrier, it contains the Chinese cultural wisdom and crystallization, condensing Chinese people's life pursuit and emotional reposing, inheritance of Chinese family ethics and social ethics. After one thousand years of accumulation, colorful folk customs of the Spring Festival, has formed the details profound and unique culture of the Spring Festival. In recent years, as material standard of living rise, people on the cultural life of the rapid growing demand, the family love, friendship, harmony, and happy thirst for more intense, the Spring Festival is a traditional festival, by more and more attention and concern from all walks of life. To carry forward the fine tradition of the condensate Spring Festival culture, outstanding new, blessing of peace and prosperity of the reunion theme, work hard to build harmonious family, stability and unity, joy and harmony in the festive atmosphere, promote Chinese culture griselda, the constant development and expansion.
翻译：春节俗称“年节”，是中华民族最隆重的传 欢度春节统佳节。自汉武帝太初元年始，以夏年(农历)正月初一为“岁首”(即“年”)，年节的日期由此固定下来，延续至今。年节古称“元旦”。1911年辛亥革命以后，开始采用公历(阳历)计年，遂称公历1月1日为“元旦”，称农历正月初一为“春节”。 岁时节日，亦被称为“传统节日”。它们历史悠久、流传面广，具有极大的普及性、群众性、甚至全民性的特点。年节是除旧布新的日子。年节虽定在农历正月初一，但年节的活动却并不止于正月初一这一天。从腊月二十三(或二十四日)小年节起，人们便开始“忙年”：扫房屋、洗头沐浴、准备年节器具等等。所有这些活动，有一个共同的主题，即“辞旧迎新”。人们以盛大的仪式和热情，迎接新年，迎接春天。
年节也是祭祝祈年的日子。古人谓谷子一熟为一“年”，五谷丰收为“大有年”。西周初年，即已出现了一年一度的庆祝丰收的活动。后来，祭天祈年成了年俗的主要内容之一。而且，诸如灶神、门神、财神、喜神、井神等诸路神明，在年节期间，都备享人间香火。人们借此酬谢诸神过去的关照，并祈愿在新的一年中能得到更多的福佑。年节还是合家团圆、敦亲祀祖的日子。除夕，全家欢聚一堂，吃罢“团年饭”，长辈给孩子们分发“压岁钱”，一家人团坐“守岁”。元日子时交年时刻，鞭炮齐响，辞旧岁、迎新年的活动达于高潮。各家焚香致礼，敬天地、祭列祖，然后依次给尊长拜年，继而同族亲友互致祝贺。元日后，开始走亲访友，互送礼品，以庆新年。年节更是民众娱乐狂欢的节日。元日以后，各种丰富多彩的娱乐活动竞相开展：耍狮子、舞龙灯、扭秧歌、踩高跷、杂耍诸戏等，为新春佳节增添了浓郁的 欢度春节喜庆气氛。此时，正值“立春”前后，古时要举行盛大的迎春仪式，鞭牛迎春，祈愿风调雨顺、五谷丰收。各种社火活动到正月十五，再次形成高潮。
因此，集祈年、庆贺、娱乐为一体的盛典年节就成了中华民族最隆重的佳节。而时至今日，除祀神祭祖等活动比以往有所淡化以外，年节的主要习俗，都完好地得以继承与发展。春节是中华民族文化的优秀传统的重要载体，它蕴含着中华民族文化的智慧和结晶，凝聚着华夏人民的生命追求和情感寄托，传承着中国人的家庭伦理和社会伦理观念。历经千百年的积淀，异彩纷呈的春节民俗，已形成底蕴深厚且独具特色的春节文化。近年来，随着物质生活水平的提高，人们对精神文化生活的需求迅速增长，对亲情、友情、和谐、美满的渴求更加强烈，春节等传统节日越来越受到社会各界的重视和关注。要大力弘扬春节所凝结的优秀传统文化，突出辞旧迎新、祝福团圆平安、兴旺发达的主题，努力营造家庭和睦、安定团结、欢乐祥和的喜庆氛围，推动中华文化历久弥新、不断发展壮大。