The most important holiday in Chinese culture is the Chinese New Year, known as the Lunar New Year, and it is one of the most important celebrations in China, starting from the first lunar month and ending on the fifteenth day of the month, known as the Lantern Festival, and the night of the holiday is called Chushi.

The centuries-old legends on the origins of the celebration of Chinese New Year vary from one narrator to another, but the well-known story of a horrible mythical beast that beat up the villagers, the name of the lion-like beast was Nian (年), and also the story of a wise old man asking the villagers to ward off Evil Nian by making loud sounds with drums and fireworks.

Then hanging pieces of red paper and rolls on the doors because the nian is afraid of red, the villagers took the advice of the old man and the nian was shunned, and in memory of this date, the Chinese realize (passage of nian) known in Chinese as (guo nian) (gu), which is also a synonym To celebrate the new year.

The date of the Chinese New Year changes every year because it is based on the lunar calendar. The date of the Chinese New Year is determined according to the orbit of the moon around the Earth, the Chinese New Year is always when the second new moon falls after the winter period, and other Asian countries such as Korea, Japan and Vietnam celebrate the new year using the calendar lunar.

Its roots go back to the spring celebration, depending on where rice is grown in China. The China season lasts from May to September in northern China, from April to October in the Yangtze River Valley and from March to November in southeast China. In the Chinese New Year, families travel long distances and speak Great migration in China, and the holiday is from a week to 15 days in which fireworks are played, drums are heard in the streets, red lights glow at night, red curtains and paper are hung in homes and on doors, and children are given red envelopes with money.

Parades take place across China and the ceremony concludes on the fifteenth of the month, Lantern Day. The food is traditional Chinese food, sticky rice cake and dumplings. The New Year celebrations in China are synonymous with the (Spring Festival) (春节 or chūn jié), which is A week-long celebration, the origins of the renaming of the Chinese New Year to the Spring Festival is a widely known story.

In 1912, the newly formed Chinese Republic, ruled by the Nationalist Party, renamed the traditional holiday to the Spring Festival in order to have the Chinese people move in to celebrate the Western New Year instead. During this period, many Chinese thinkers felt that modernization meant doing everything New things as the West did.

When the Communists took power in 1949, the celebration of the New Year was seen as feudal, and not appropriate for Communist China. Under the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese New Year was not celebrated for several years, and by the end of the 1980s, China began to liberalize its economy. The Spring Festival is a big and profitable business, and China Central Television has held a new annual party since 1982, which was and still is televised by satellite to the world.

A few years ago, the government announced that it would shorten the holiday system, the Labor Day holiday would be shortened from one week to one day, the National Day holiday would be spent two days instead of a week, as well as traditional holidays such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, the only one that has been preserved is Spring Festival is celebrated for a week.