Far and away the most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. the dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the GREgorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.
To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year’s Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.
远远好于中国最重要的节日是春节,也被称为中国的新年。对欧美地区人来说,圣诞节和中国人一样重要。每年庆祝的日期是由农历而不是公历决定的,所以假期的则带时间从悉盯清一月底到二月初有所不同。对于普通的中国人来说,节日实际上是在农历新年前夕开始,在阴历的第一个月的第五天睁前结束。但正月第十五,通常称为元宵节,意思是春节在全国许多地方正式结束。