Spring Festival Spring Festival known as "new year ", is the Chinese nation most grand traditional festival to celebrate the Spring Festival. Since the Han Dynasty too at the beginning of the first year, with summer year (lunar ) lunar January first " the beginning of the year " (i.e., " year " ), the festival date so fixed, continues to this day. The festival called " New Year's day ". Xin Hai revolution since 1911, began to use the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar ) dating, he called the Gregorian calendar in January 1st as the "New Year's Day ", said the lunar January 1 as "spring festival ". The festival, also known as "traditional festivals ". It has a long history, wide spread, with great popularity, mass, or even universal features. Chinese New Year is the time being. The festival is on lunar January 1, but new year 's activities are not limited to this day of lunar January first. From the twelfth twenty-three ( or twenty-four) of small festivals, people began to "busy ": clean the house, wash bath, preparing for the festival appliances etc.. All of these activities, there is a common theme, namely "new year ". People greet the new year with a grand ceremony and enthusiasm to greet the spring,. Chinese New Year is also offering hope for the day. The Tani Koichi as a " year ", " big grain harvest for years ". The early Western Zhou Dynasty, that has appeared once a year 's harvest celebrations. Later, heaven Qinian became one of the main contents of the vulgar. Moreover, such as kitchen, God, God, God, God of gods Wells Road, during the festival, all to be human incense. People like to take this opportunity to thank the gods of the attention, and wish to receive more blessings in the new year. Chinese new year or family reunion, nearby such day. New year's Eve, the whole family have a joyous gathering, eat "reunion dinner ", elders give children distribute " gift money ", one family tuanzuo " staying-up ". Yuan day over years time, firecrackers chime, bid farewell to the old year, and welcome the new year activity to the climax. The incense to salute, respect for nature, offering fathers, and then to the elders pay New Year's call, and his relatives and friends to congratulate each other. The first day of the year, began to visit relatives and friends, to send each other gifts, in the new year. Chinese New Year is the populace entertainment Carnival festival. The first day of the year, all kinds of rich and colorful entertainment to carry out activities: play the lion, dragon dance, yangko dance, walking on stilts, juggling the play, to celebrate the Spring Festival add rich festive atmosphere for the spring festival. At this time, when the " beginning" before and after, it will have a big spring ceremony, whip Niu Yingchun, for favorable weather, bumper grain harvest. All kinds of activities to the lunar January fifteen, formed the climax again. Therefore, set for, celebrations, entertainment for the whole of the festival festival became the most grand holiday of the Chinese nation. Today, in addition to sacrifice ancestor worship and other activities than ever before to fade away, the festival's main custom, are in good condition to inheritance and development. The Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, it contains the wisdom and the crystallization of Chinese culture, condensing Chinese people's life pursuit and emotional reposing, inheritance of Chinese family ethics and social ethics. After thousands of years of accumulation, colorful folk customs of the Spring Festival, has formed a profound and unique culture of the spring festival. In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, people demand for spiritual and cultural life of the rapid growth, more intense affection, friendship, harmonious, happy desire, the Spring Festival is a traditional festival has attracted more and more attention from all sectors of society and attention. We should vigorously promote the Spring Festival by the condensation of excellent traditional culture, highlight the new year reunion, blessing of peace, prosperity, and strive to create a harmonious family, stability and unity, joy and harmony in the festive atmosphere, to promote Chinese culture, its development. There used to be called the "year " monster, head long sharp edges, fierce abnormalities, and live in the sea. On New Year's Eve night climbed out, spit food livestock harm his life. Therefore, a new year's Eve, everyone fled to the mountains, to avoid "year ". This year, from the village to a silver to be elegant, eye Ruolang star old man. The middle of the night " year" beast into the village, are ready to act violently when, suddenly heard " crackling sound of bombing ", the old man put on robes in front of " year ", " year" trembling, fled back to the sea, then the night did not dare to the village. This is the legend of the origin and have the Spring Festival fireworks, after several years of development, have the Spring Festival custom Yuelai more rich.