New Year, there is a taste, but the taste of the year is not only limited to taste and smell, it is not a specific taste, but a kind of synaesthesia of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. New Year's Taste is a snatched ticket, but also a brand new Spring Festival on the door and a variety of window flowers on the window, or the New Year money that you want to receive when you grow up, but also a dazzling array of New Year goods and a large table of delicious Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. There are childhood memories, strong thoughts, happiness of reunion, and expectations for the future. Hidden in the prosperity and excitement is the common expectation of reuniting with family and reuniting with relatives. Reunion is the eternal theme of the Spring Festival, but also the strongest flavor of the New Year, no matter how busy we are, how far away, going home for the New Year is a strong nostalgia in our hearts, is always the same family watch.
The most indispensable thing is a variety of well-prepared characteristic folk activities, which make the Spring Festival culture rich and three-dimensional, and together constitute the colorful Spring Festival culture of the Chinese nation and nourish the spiritual and cultural life of the Chinese people. As the saying goes: "A hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs". Paste Spring Festival couplets, hang lanterns, set off firecrackers, and pay New Year's greetings ......Each custom contains the people's gratitude for the past year, as well as the good expectations for the new year, full of auspicious meanings and good wishes. These customs are the historical accumulation and cultural inheritance of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and are special symbols of cultural inheritance and expression, which contain rich values, morals and outlook on life, carry people's yearning and blessings for a better life, convey the warmth of family, friendship and love, and let people feel the charm of traditional Spring Festival culture in the strong flavor of the New Year.
To a certain extent, it is precisely because the customs of the New Year continue to keep pace with the times that the traditional festivals can exude lasting cultural charm and glow with the brilliance of the new era, which also makes the Spring Festival more flavorful and makes the New Year's flavor better year by year. For example, new ways of greeting the New Year, such as online red envelopes and electronic Spring Festival couplets, have gradually become popular, injecting new vitality into traditional festivals. These new ways of greeting the New Year are not only convenient and fast, but also allow more people to participate in the celebration of the Spring Festival and feel the joy and warmth together. This enlightens us that on the basis of inheritance and protection, in order to achieve creative transformation and innovative development, the Spring Festival culture must conform to the development trend of the times, respect the needs of the masses, adhere to the integration and innovation of traditional New Year customs and modern elements, depict modern colors on the traditional background, and carry out modern expression in the traditional context, give more cultural connotations to the flavor of the New Year, and fully activate the vitality of the Spring Festival culture.
The Spring Festival goes to the world, and the world embraces the Spring Festival. On 22 December 2023, the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution by consensus to designate the Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) as a United Nations holiday. From the jubilant traditional Chinese folk festivals to the joyful United Nations holidays, the treasures of civilization that have been inherited for thousands of years of history have been more dazzling with the brilliance of the times. As a unique scenery and distinctive symbol of Chinese culture, the Spring Festival culture not only opens a window for people from all over the world to observe and perceive China, but also builds a bridge for spiritual exchange, so that more people can understand the values and wisdom contained in Chinese culture, and gather the confidence and strength of "Together for the Future". This is conducive to promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations in the world, opening up a new situation for the dissemination of Chinese culture, and further enhancing the comprehensive influence of Chinese culture.
Celebrate the new year and welcome and send off all night. "The Spring Festival is the boundary between the seasons and the starting point of hope. From gratitude for family to grateful life, the Spring Festival has long become a collection of historical traditions, lifestyles and values, condensing the essence of Chinese culture and full of yearning for a better life. Let us feel the taste of the Spring Festival together and interpret the meaning of the New Year together in the cultural bond and emotional magnetic field.
Source: Jingchu Network (Hubei ** Network).
Author: Liu Xin (Yidu "Liangjiang Tide" online review team, Yidu Yaojiadian Town people**).
Editor-in-charge: Liao Fengqian.