Just as more than 1.4 billion Chinese people are silently planning and eagerly awaiting the important traditional festival of the Spring Festival in 2024, an international news has come out.
On December 22, local time, the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution announcing that the Chinese New Year will be designated as a United Nations holiday. This decision means that every year on the day of the Spring Festival, the United Nations will try to avoid arranging conference activities. (China News Network, December 23).
The 100-festival year is the first, and the four seasons spring is the first. The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year, is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Although in the past, it was not called "Spring Festival", but "New Year", "New Year" or "New Year", "New Year" and "New Year", etc., but the connotation of "celebrating the first day of the New Year" has always been the same. According to the data, the Xia Dynasty set January of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the new year, and the "New Year" was celebrated on January 1;The Shang Dynasty set the 12th month of the lunar calendar as the beginning of the new year, and December 1 was the "New Year";The Zhou Dynasty set the beginning of the 11th lunar month as the beginning of the new year, and the "New Year" was celebrated on November 1The Qin Dynasty set the beginning of the new year in October of the lunar calendar, and the "New Year" was celebrated on October 1The Han Dynasty restored the custom of the Xia Dynasty, and the "New Year" was celebrated on January 1 until now. Regardless of which month is designated as the beginning of the new year, the "first day of the new year" is the "New Year". * It was stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar would be the "New Year" and the "New Year" of the lunar calendar would be abolished, but the majority of the people did not agree, so the authorities had to stipulate that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day" and January 1 of the lunar calendar was called "New Year", and gave the "Spring Festival" a new name. Now the "Spring Festival" has officially become a United Nations holiday, which reflects the international community's recognition of the Chinese people's "New Year" complex, and also expresses the United Nations' respect for Chinese cultural traditions.
In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. As a traditional festival of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, the Spring Festival is the "New Year", which has precipitated very rich folk customs and contains extremely profound cultural connotations. The Spring Festival folk customs were approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. The Spring Festival originated from the primitive belief and nature worship of the ancestors, and evolved from the first prayer sacrifice of the year in ancient times. Through the ritual process of the Spring Festival, people are engaged in removing the old and clothing the new, worshiping the gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reuniting relatives and friends, greeting each other, blessings together, celebrating entertainment and sharing food, expressing people's yearning for a better life in the future. As Dai Bing, Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations, said after the adoption of the resolution of the UN General Assembly, the Spring Festival, as a traditional Chinese folk festival, is not only a day for family reunions, farewell to the old and welcome the new, but also carries the common values of all mankind, such as peace, harmony and harmony, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The national is also the whole of mankind, and China is also the whole world.
The Spring Festival has become a United Nations holiday, which is also the trend of the times, and it is a matter of course. Not only do Chinese, who account for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, celebrate the Spring Festival, but Chinese people around the world are celebrating the Spring Festival every year as always, which has become an official holiday in many countries and regions. In Singapore, Malaysia, North Korea, South Korea, Indonesia, Brunei, Canada, and Suriname, the Spring Festival is a legal holiday, and in California, New York City, and Rio, Brazil, the Spring Festival has become an official holiday or legal holiday. The formation of this trend not only shows that the Chinese civilization with a long history is an important part of human civilization, but also reflects the increasing influence of China in the world in the process of national rejuvenation and modernization, which is self-reliant and self-reliant, and reflects that the "Chinese strategy" for the future development of mankind of building a "community with a shared future for mankind" is being responded to by more and more countries and peoples. This is the result of the Chinese people's adherence to national and cultural self-confidence, and is also the fruit of exchanges and mutual learning between human civilizations and cultural exchanges and sharing among various ethnic groups, and will continue to promote Chinese culture to the world.
The Spring Festival of 2024 is approaching, and this Spring Festival is to "celebrate the New Year" with people all over the world. Let us be high-spirited and forge ahead, celebrate the New Year with a new spiritual outlook, and let the Spring Festival, which condenses the moral concepts and national emotions of the Chinese nation and carries the essence of the Chinese nation's fine qualities and thoughts, be impressive, encourage greater achievements in the New Year, and cheer for a better and happier life in the future.