What is the difference between New Year's Eve and Spring Festival? Which one is the New Year's Eve or Spring Festival?

What is the difference between New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival? Many friends don’t know the difference between New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival, and think they mean the same thing. In fact, there is a big difference between them.

What is the difference between New Year's Eve and Spring Festival?

New Year’s Eve is the last day of the year, usually on the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. The Spring Festival is the first day of the new year, that is, the first day of the first lunar month.

1. New Year's Eve is also called "New Year's Eve", "New Year's Eve", etc. "Chu" means a place and "Xi" means night. New Year's Eve means getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. Before New Year’s Eve, every household will do a thorough cleaning of the house inside and out, put up Spring Festival couplets, hang red lanterns, prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, and then stay up all night to celebrate the New Year. On this day, family members should gather together. If the elderly are still alive, they should return to their homes. Brothers and sisters and their respective families should gather together to reminisce about family life.

2. The Spring Festival is the first day of the new year, the first month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the New Year, New Year, and New Year. Celebrating the Chinese New Year is a process, and it cannot be described as just one day. Everyone goes through various preparations before the first day of the new year, and starts to get busy on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is almost over until the Lantern Festival after the new year. On the day of the Spring Festival, everyone has gone through a series of preparations such as cleaning, worshiping, and pasting Spring Festival couplets, and then stays up until the early morning waiting for this day to arrive. When twelve o'clock arrives, everyone will first set off a string of firecrackers to celebrate. The New Year arrives with the sound of firecrackers, which usually lasts for an hour. The next day, everyone has to get up early and visit every household to wish everyone a happy new year. Those who live nearby can go in person, while those who can't make it should call to express their best wishes.

Which is more important, New Year's Eve or Spring Festival?

New Year’s Eve and the Spring Festival are both celebrations of the New Year, one is an end, the other is a beginning. During the transition from the old to the new, everyone treats them with piety, bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year with all their heart. New Year's Eve refers to the last night of the twelfth lunar month, and the next day, the New Year's Day, is the Spring Festival, which falls on the first day of the first lunar month every year. The broad sense of the Spring Festival includes the Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve specifically refers to the night of New Year's Eve, which is New Year's Eve. Among the people, the traditional Chinese New Year refers to the period from the La Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (or the Kitchen God Festival on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month) to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month being the climax.

When is Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year refers to the last day of the year, which is the end of the year. The first day of the first lunar month is the beginning of the year, and after the "New Year" comes the new year, so whether it is New Year's Eve or the first day of the first lunar month, it is a good day to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and welcome good fortune. 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.