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春节和年的概念，最初的含意来自农业，古时人们把谷的生长周期称为“年”，《说文。禾部》：“年，谷熟也：。在夏商时代产生了夏历，以月亮圆缺的周期为月，一年划分为十二个月，每月以不见月亮的那天为朔，正月朔日的子时称为岁首，即一年的开始，也叫年，年的名称是从周朝开始的，至了西汉才正式固定下来，一直延续到今天。但古时的正月初一被称为“元旦”，直到中国近代辛亥革命胜利后，南京临时政府为了顺应农时和便于统计，规定在民间使用夏历，在政府机关、厂矿、学校和团体中实行公历，以公历的元月一日为元旦，农历的正月初一称春节。 The concept of Spring Festival and new year originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of grain "year". He Bu: "in the year of, Gu Shuo also:. In the Xia and Shang Dynasties, there was a lunar calendar. The period of the moon's round and missing is the month. A year is divided into twelve months. The new moon is the day when the moon is not seen. The new moon's sub hour is called the beginning of the year, also called the year. The name of the year begins from the Zhou Dynasty and is not formally fixed until the Western Han Dynasty, and continues to this day. However, the first day of the first lunar month in ancient times was called "New Year's Day". Until the victory of the 1911 Revolution in modern China, in order to conform to the agricultural time and facilitate statistics, the Nanjing provisional government stipulated that the Chinese calendar should be used in the folk, and implemented in government organs, factories, mines, schools and organizations. The first day of the first lunar month in the Gregorian calendar was called the new year's day, and the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar was called the Spring Festival. | 
