Why is it so important for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is of special significance to China people. It is not only a festival, but also a cultural symbol and symbol. The Spring Festival is a festival for family reunion and happiness. It is also a festival full of energy and saving strength for the coming year.

Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

With the spread of China culture, the influence of the Spring Festival is expanding abroad. Overseas Chinese and overseas students will hold various activities during the Spring Festival, many of which have been recognized by the local government. Moreover, more and more foreigners come to China to study, work and live, and learn more about China Spring Festival and China culture. The Spring Festival is not only for China, but also for the world.

Extended data

Although China has celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, it was not until the Revolution of 1911 that the Lunar New Year was officially named as the Spring Festival. It is said that after the victory of the Revolution of 1911, in order to conform to the farming season and facilitate statistics, the government stipulated that organs, factories, mines, schools and organizations use the Gregorian calendar, while the people use the summer calendar.

At that time, the Kuomintang in China tried to abolish the Spring Festival, but it was not accepted by the people of China and ended in failure. 1949 On September 27th, the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to adopt the world calendar year while establishing the People's Republic of China (PRC).

In order to distinguish the two "years" of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, and because the "beginning of spring" with 24 solar terms in a year happens around the lunar year, the 1 month 1 day of the solar calendar is designated as New Year's Day, commonly known as the solar year, and the first month 1 day of the lunar calendar is called the Spring Festival, commonly known as the lunar year.

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