Spring Festival is the lunar Suishou, is also our ancient traditional festivals. Ancient-off "year" is not in the twelfth lunar month on the 29th or on the 30th, but in the "wax on", that later, "Laba." Southern and Northern Dynasties later, the "wax Festival" to the end of the year. To the Republican era, the switch to Gregorian calendar was only then that the lunar year is called "Spring Festival", because the Spring Festival is generally in the "Spring," both before and after.
Origin of the Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the lunar Suishou, is also our ancient traditional festivals. Ancient-off "year" is not in the twelfth lunar month on the 29th or on the 30th, but in the "wax on", that later, "Laba." Southern and Northern Dynasties later, the "wax Festival" to the end of the year. To the Republican era, the switch to Gregorian calendar was only then that the lunar year is called "Spring Festival", because the Spring Festival is generally in the "Spring," both before and after.
翻譯：春節，是農曆的歲首，也是中國古老的傳統節日。古代過“年”不是在臘月二十九日或三十日，而是在“蠟日”，即後來的“臘八”。南北朝以後，把“蜡祭”移至歲末。到了民國時 ，改用陽曆，才把陰曆年叫“春節”，因為春節一般都在“立春”前後。