Spring Festival

Spring Festival

English

Etymology

The Chinese New Year sense is a calque of Chinese 春節 / 春节 (Chūnjié), the usual modern name for the holiday. By surface analysis, and when not referring to the Chinese holiday, a proprialization of spring +‎ festival.

Noun

Spring Festival (plural Spring Festivals)

  1. (chiefly China) Synonym of Chinese New Year.
    They plan to visit Shanghai during Spring Festival.
    • 2020, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese..., page 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.
  2. (sometimes) Any other particular festival marking the beginning of spring.
    Coordinate terms: winter festival, winter holiday, summer holiday
    Our school's Spring Festival is next week.
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