The Spring Festival includes the first month and New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and New Year's Eve all refer to the same day. The Spring Festival in a special sense refers to the first day of the New Year, that is, the first day of the Lunar New Year. New Year's Eve is the last night of the Lunar New Year, usually on the 30th or 29th of the twelfth lunar month, so it is also called New Year's Eve.
In the folk, the traditional Chinese New Year refers to the period from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (or the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month) to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month.
The origin of New Year's Eve:
As a festival at the end of the year, New Year's Eve originated from the ancient custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors at the end of the year, and the day after the end of the year is a traditional festival of offering sacrifices to ancestors. The ancient book says: "Heaven and earth are the foundation of life; Ancestors are the foundation of class. " It means that heaven and earth are the foundation of life, ancestors are the foundation of our human beings, and ancestor worship is the custom of inheriting filial piety.
According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals and Historical Records, the ancients used drums to drive away the "ghost of plague" on the day before the New Year, and held a "mourning" ceremony at the end of each year. It is said that drumming to drive away the ghosts of plague was also one of the customs of New Year's Eve at that time.