Are New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival the same day? What are the sayings and rules?

Are New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival the same day? What are the sayings and rules?
New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival are both important traditional festivals in my country. Since the two festivals are very close in time, many people cannot tell the difference between New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival. So are New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival the same day? The Chinese New Year is a very important festival in China. Fortune Teller.com has carefully prepared some relevant knowledge about the 2018 Chinese New Year and New Year’s Eve for you. Let’s take a sneak peek!

Are New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival the same day? What are the sayings and rules?

Simply put, the broad definition of the Spring Festival includes Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve; Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve are all on the same day, and New Year's Eve specifically refers to the night of New Year's Eve, which is New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival in a specific sense refers to the first day of the Lunar New Year.
According to relevant information, New Year's Eve is one of the most important traditional festivals in my country. It refers to the last night of the lunar year, that is, the night before the Spring Festival. Because it often falls on the 30th or 29th day of the twelfth lunar month in the lunar calendar, this day is also called New Year's Eve. The last day of the year is called "Sui Chu" and the night of that day is called "New Year's Eve". On New Year’s Eve, people often stay up all night, which is called Shousui. Su Shi has a poem "Keeping the New Year's Eve": "Children force themselves not to sleep, and stay up all night to have fun. For more exciting content, please pay attention to the weather calendar channel." On New Year's Eve, not only do people have to clean the house inside and out, but they also put up door gods, spring couplets, new year pictures, and hang door cages. People also change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns. The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is commonly known as the Chinese New Year.

Spring Festival and New Year's Eve are combined into one

Because the Spring Festival and the New Year are closely connected, and due to the needs of the times, people gradually combined these two traditional festivals into one. In terms of time, the Chinese New Year is the last day of the year, which is the end of the year. The Spring Festival is the beginning of the year, and the first day of the New Year is the first day of spring in the lunar calendar, so it is called the Spring Festival, which tells people that from this day on, spring has arrived and the new year has begun.
In the past, people called this time the Chinese New Year, which is "New Year's Eve". With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the "New Year's Day" on the first day of the first lunar month was changed to a synonym for the Gregorian New Year. In addition, after the 1960s, political factors such as "breaking the old and establishing the new" and "breaking superstition" gradually faded the significance of the year. In recent years, the words "New Year's Eve" and "Spring Festival" have been printed on some desk calendars, wall calendars, and calendars. However, in public media and propaganda, the New Year and the Spring Festival are confused. I really don’t know whether the Chinese traditional festival “New Year”, which has been passed down for thousands of years, will be replaced by the “Spring Festival”. It’s hard to say.

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