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.

原文翻譯：

遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)好于中國最重要的節(jié)日是春節(jié)，也被稱為中國的新年。對(duì)中國人來說是一樣重要的西方人的圣誕節(jié)。這個(gè)一年一度的慶典的日期是由農(nóng)歷而不是公歷確定的，因此假日的時(shí)間變化從一月下旬到二月初。

對(duì)普通中國人來說，春節(jié)開始于農(nóng)歷新年的第一天結(jié)束的農(nóng)歷的第一個(gè)月第五日前夕。但第十五的第一個(gè)月，通常被稱為元宵節(jié)，意味著在該國許多地區(qū)的春節(jié)正式結(jié)束。