Chinese New Year 2025 (Spring Festival) information is as follows:
- Date: January 29, 2025, the first day of the first month of the Yisi Year (Year of the Snake) in the lunar calendar.
- Holiday arrangement: From January 28 to February 4, 2025, a total of 8 days, January 26 (Sunday), February 8 (Saturday) to work.
Traditional customs
- December 23 (January 22) : The northern year, legend that this day is the "Kitchen God God" day.
- Twelfth Month 24 (January 23) : Dust sweep the house, from before and after the sacrificial stove to the end of the year, are sweeping time.
- December 25 (January 24) : push the mill to make tofu, legend Jade Emperor will visit the lower boundaries, eat tofu residue to table bitter, there are also "twenty-five paste the window", modern is generally pasted window flowers, pasted blessing characters, hanging couplets.
- December 26 (January 25) : kill New Year's pig stew, shave the year, mainly prepare for the New Year's meat, many areas of people will also choose this day to shave their heads.
- December 27 (January 26) : Slaughter of chickens, catch up, every family to slaughter their own poultry, but also to purchase firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets and other supplies.
- The 28th day of the Twelfth month (January 27) : rice cake steamed bun decals, families to begin to prepare staple food for the New Year, the ancients to peach wood to ward off evil wood, after being replaced by red paper.
- Lunar month twenty-nine (January 28) : New Year's Eve, eat New Year's Eve dinner, burning firecrackers, Shousui.
- The first day of the first month (January 29) : the younger generation to the elders, the elders to lucky money, pressure evil, people will wear new clothes, avoid saying unlucky words and so on.
- The second day of the first month (January 30) : the family went to the New Year, the club stayed for dinner, the west family row wine dinner, the daughter returned to her mother's home, etc.
- The third day of the first month (January 31) : son-in-law to visit the father-in-law, daughter-in-law back home, gifts with even number, this day also has the custom of sleeping late.
- The fourth day of the first lunar month (February 1) : Welcome the kitchen God back to the people, the whole family eats folding, cleaning New Year goods.
- The fifth day of the first month (February 2) : five roads to meet the God of wealth, east and west north and south, five roads to wealth, break five to eat dumplings set off firecrackers.
- The sixth day of the first lunar month (February 3) : the garbage collection is piled into one place, that is, "throw the poor".
- The seventh day of the first month (February 4) : People's Day, the custom is to spread pancakes, eat seven treasure soup, settle body and mind, rest and rest.
Related activity
- Ministry of Culture and Tourism Activities: From January 7 (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month) to March 1 (the second day of the second lunar month), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will coordinate the "Happy New Year" 2025 Spring Festival theme cultural and tourism activities. Including "culture spring art for the people", "spring to 10000", "intangible cultural heritage to celebrate the New Year", "tourism Spring Leisure New Year", "Huiqi happy people celebrate the New Year", "Cultural museum in the New Year" and "Happy Spring Festival" seven main activities.
- Local celebrations: Various activities will be held in various places, such as holding the Spring Festival "village evening", lantern fair display, intangible cultural heritage collection, Spring Festival tourism and leisure activities, museum Spring Festival theme exhibitions, etc.