Spring Festival, the new year of Chinese traditional calendar, is one of the major traditional national holidays in China. In ancient times, people called the Spring Festival as New Year.
　　In order to rejoice at the New Year, people wished others a happy new year and blessed heartily. Some stuck calligraphies full of joy on doors, most of which were antithetical couplets and phrases, such as: blessing, longevity, luckiness, propitious New Year and so on. Whereas, some people pasted paper-cuts for window decorations to do away with the old and set up the new. The patterns of paper-cuts mainly consisted of figures, flowers, characters, any of the twelve animals representing the twelve Earthly Branches, and other animals.
　　It was in recent times that people called the New Year as the Spring Festival. Although China had conducted legislative reform for several times, Chinese traditional calendar was still applied. Only after the Revolution of 1911, the Gregorian calendar had begun to be applied. For distinguishing two new years in Gregorian calendar and Chinese traditional calendar, additionally, the new year in Chinese traditional calendar is around the Beginning of Spring, so people termed the new year in Chinese traditional calendar as  the Spring Festival.
　　
　　春节,中国的传统新年,在中国是主要的传统国家节日之一。在古代,人们把春节叫做新年。
　　为了庆祝新年,人们都给他人一个新年快乐的真心祝福。许多写满欢乐的春联贴在门上,大多数都是字母押韵的句子或词语,比如祝福,长寿,幸运,吉利等等。同时,许多人都把剪纸贴到窗户上,代表着辞旧迎新。窗花的形式主要有人物,花,字母,以及十二生肖或者其他动物图案。
　　近年来人们开始把新年叫做春节。虽然中国已经经历了好几次法制改革,但中国传统的农历依然有效。而公历是在1911年的革命之后才开始运用的。为了分辨公历和农历的新年,再加上农历新年在一年春季的开始,所以人们把农历新年叫做春节。