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 Years 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.
,在中国最重要的节日是春节,也被称为中国的新年。中国人民是西方人的圣诞节一样重要。这个一年一度的庆典的日期是由农历而不是公历,所以假期的时间从一月底到二月初而异。
普通的中国人,节日实际上开始了农历新年前夕和农历的第一个月第五天结束。但是第一个月的15日,通常被称为元宵节,在这个国家的许多地区，春节意味着正式结束。