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Spring Festival
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Etymology
The Chinese New Year sense is a en zh 春節 Chūnjié 1, the usual modern name for the holiday. By surface analysis, and when not referring to the Chinese holiday, a proprialization of en spring<id:Q1312> festival.
Noun
Spring Festival
en chiefly China en Chinese New Year.
en They plan to visit Shanghai during Spring Festival.
en 21 February 1991 15 February 1991 Hou Zongbin Visits Grass-Roots Workers Daily Report: China !91-035 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435021557186&seq=369 Zhengzhou Henan Provincial Service cmn w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 0892-015X 7522935 Regional Affairs 39 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435021557186&seq=413 1 Comrade Hou Zongbin came to the environmental sanitation transfer station on (Ninggong) Road, Erqi zh 二七 District, and warmly clasped hands with two workers (Chu Yuwen) and (Zhao Dongfang), voicing his thanks to more than 2,400 environmental sanitation workers throughout the city, including these two, who had been working so hard that the people in the provincial capital could enjoy a happy, civilized, and peaceful Spring Festival, and wishing them good health and family happiness.
en 2020 Dru C. Gladney Muslim Chinese... 192 Although the Hui in the northwest do not celebrate the Han holidays of Zhongqiu, Qingming, or even Chun Jie (Spring Festival), the Hui in most of China's cities gladly participate.
en sometimes Any other particular festival marking the beginning of spring.
en winter festival<id:holy day or similar> winter holiday<id:literal> summer holiday<id:literal>
en Our school's Spring Festival is next week.
en China Festivals Holidays