The festival was traditionally a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. The public celebrations were reinstated by the time of the Chinese economic reform.
The State Council of the People’s Republic of China announced that the public should change customs, have a revolutionized and fighting Spring Festival, and since people needed to work on Chinese New Year Eve, they did not have holidays during Spring Festival day. In 1967 during the Cultural Revolution, official Chinese New Year celebrations were banned in China. In 1928, the Kuomintang party decreed that Chinese New Year will fall on the first of January, following the Gregorian Calendar, but this was abandoned due to overwhelming opposition from the populace. It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries with significant Chinese populations, like Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, North America, and Europe. It’s a major holiday in Greater China and has strongly influenced lunar new year celebrations of China’s neighboring cultures, including the Korean New Year, the Tết of Vietnam, and the Losar of Tibet. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between January 21 and February 20.
The festival is usually referred to as the Spring Festival in mainland China and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia.
Chinese New Year is the Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar.
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