What's the difference between New Year's day and Spring Festival? New Year's day and Spring Festival are both traditional festivals in China. What's the connection and difference between them? Let's have a specific understanding.
The difference between New Year's day and Spring Festival
1、 The new year's day of 2018 is January 1 of the Gregorian calendar. New year's Day is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, which is on January 1 of the lunar calendar. Long ago, the dates of new year's day in ancient times were all lunar calendar, and the dates of new year's day in different dynasties were also different. At that time, the Spring Festival and new year's Day belonged to the same day.
2、 The Spring Festival of 2018 is February 16 in the Gregorian calendar. The traditional meaning of Spring Festival is from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, or the twenty third or twenty fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, to the fifteenth day of the first month. The specific Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the lunar new year, that is, the first day of the lunar new year.
Activities related to new year's day and Spring Festival
New year's day in ancient times
In ancient times, new year's Day held celebrations, ceremonies and other activities. Since the ancient spring festival and new year's day belong to the same day, the activities of new year's day are similar to those of our Spring Festival, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, dancing dragon lights, pasting spring couplets, setting off firecrackers, etc.
Modern new year's Day
Although we have separated the new year's day from the Spring Festival, the new year's Day is our traditional festival in China. The state has listed the new year's day as a legal holiday, and people all over the country have a holiday to celebrate the new year's day. We will also take advantage of the new year's day, get together with our families or travel together and so on.
Keeping the year before the Spring Festival
Before the Spring Festival, every family should clean up their environment, which is permeated with the happy atmosphere of welcoming the Spring Festival. New year's Eve is one of the important customs, that is, the night before the Spring Festival, the whole family will get together to eat the new year's Eve dinner, then sit around the stove and chat, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
New year's Eve
On the first day of the Spring Festival, that is, the first day of the lunar new year, everyone will get up early, put on beautiful new clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and greet each other, wishing the new year good luck.