On December 22, the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution by consensus to designate the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) as a United Nations holiday. The Spring Festival has officially become a United Nations holiday, which fully demonstrates the communication power and influence of Chinese civilization, will effectively promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations in the world, and actively reflect the cultural values of diversity and inclusiveness advocated by the United Nations. (According to Xinhua News Agency, December 23).
The Spring Festival is a beautiful time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and it will always bring people new visions. With the Spring Festival officially designated as a United Nations holiday, the Spring Festival will usher in globalization, which is undoubtedly a new journey for China's excellent traditional culture to the world.
The 100-festival year is the first, and the four seasons spring is the first. The Spring Festival is a folk festival for Chinese to remove the old and cloth the new, worship ancestors, pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits, reunite relatives and friends, and celebrate entertainment, and is called the "four traditional festivals" together with Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. As early as 2006, the Spring Festival folk customs were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Mr. Feng Jicai, a famous writer and folklore expert, believes that the Spring Festival is the largest intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, and it "seems to be some folk customs, but in fact it is people's life emotions and ideals in their hearts".
The journey to the world during the Spring Festival is also a journey for the development of China's ancient intangible cultural heritage to promote the "two innovations".
In the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, the ancient Spring Festival keeps upright and innovates, keeps pace with the times, constantly depicts modern chapters on the traditional background, and constantly innovates modern expressions in the traditional context, which not only inherits and develops the thick cultural context, but also injects vivid elements of the times. The globalization of the Spring Festival is not only a vivid practice of "two innovations", but also an important new starting point for the exploration of Chinese traditional culture and the world's multicultural exchanges and mutual learning.
In fact, the Spring Festival has long been loved by people from all over the world - according to incomplete statistics, Spring Festival folk activities have entered nearly 200 countries and regions around the world, and about one-fifth of the world's population celebrates the Lunar New Year in various forms. Not only that, in many countries and regions, the Spring Festival is a legal holiday, and it has long been "officially certified".
In Asia, Singaporeans celebrate Chinese New Year with a countdown to Chinatown and a meal like lo yu sheng with family and friendsMalaysia has a large traffic jam similar to China's "Spring Festival" before the Spring Festival;In North and South Korea, people worship their ancestors and wish each other blessings during the Spring Festival, and the younger generations give big gifts to their elders, and there are many ceremonies to symbolize a safe end of the year and the ...... of the new yearOutside of Asia, more and more countries and regions have also joined the "circle of friends" of the Spring Festival: Canada, Suriname, California and New York in the United States, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and other places, not only the local Chinese community will hold celebrations during the Spring Festival, but also local people at all levels and actively participate in it, participate in celebrations such as Spring Festival temple fairs, distribute red envelopes, and share festivities.
The world embraces the Spring Festival, and the Spring Festival goes to the world - this is a two-way rush between the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the world today. We once again send an "invitation to spring" to the world, and embark on this journey of "driving to spring", the ancient pulse engraved in the genes of Chinese culture will no longer be just an emotional experience of a single ethnic group, but will increasingly become a global cultural event. It will surely lead more people to experience the joyful atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, through colorful cultural exchanges and mutual learning, to understand an ancient China with a long history and profound cultural heritage, to approach a young China that keeps pace with the times and is booming, and to see and fall in love with a credible, lovely and respectable China. (Liu Ping).