China is a multi-ethnic country, the national New Year's different forms. Han, Manchu and Korean customs of Chinese New Year almost over, family reunion, people eat rice cakes, dumplings and a variety of hearty meals, decorated, set off firecrackers, and mutual blessing. During the Spring Festival celebration is extremely rich and varied, a lion dance, playing the dragon, there are stilt-walkers, Pao Hanchuan's.
With the founding of New China, Chinese New Year celebrations more colorful. Not only retains the folk customs of the past, with the exclusion of some of the feudal superstitious activities, and increased the number of new content. The New Year with a new flavor of the times.
中國農歷年的歲首稱為春節。是中國人民最隆重的傳統節日，也象征團結、興旺，對未來寄托新的希望的佳節。臨近春節，人們采辦年貨，除夕時，全家團聚在壹起吃年夜飯。貼年畫、春聯；迎接新的壹年來臨。
中國是個多民族的國家，各民族過新年的形式各有不同。漢族、滿族和朝鮮族過春節的風俗習慣差不多，全家團圓，人們吃年糕、水餃以及各種豐盛的飯菜、張燈結彩，燃放鞭炮，並互相祝福。春節期間的慶祝活動極為豐富多樣，有舞獅、耍龍的，也有踩高蹺、跑旱船的。
隨著新中國的建立，春節慶祝活動更為豐富多彩。不僅保留了過去民間習俗，剔除了壹些帶有封建迷信的活動，而且增加了不少新的內容。使春節具有新的時代氣息。