The Spring Festival overture resounded throughout the land of China: celebrate tradition and enjoy the cultural feast.As the years go by, the familiar and warm festival bell rings again, indicating that the footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer. In this gorgeous season, the land of China from south to north, from east to west, is immersed in a lively and extraordinary New Year's flavor, and all kinds of spring greeting activities with regional characteristics and ethnic customs are slowly unfolding like a picture scroll.
In Yichang, Hubei Province, people on the banks of the Yangtze River are celebrating the festival in a unique way. The long-standing dragon boat stepping activity reappears on the river, and the ornately decorated dragon boats are like dragons swimming in the water, implying the good wishes of driving away evil spirits and avoiding disasters in the New Year, and praying for good weather and good weather. At the same time, the intangible cultural heritage project Flower Drum Opera is also sung in the streets and alleys, and those vivid and lively characters and rhythmic singing voices tell the thousand-year-old folk stories, so that every viewer can feel the charm of folk art and the deep heritage of traditional culture.
In the modern metropolis of Shenzhen, the traditional New Year's flavor is not drowned out by high-rise buildings, but finds a different interpretation here. The city's 300 flower shopping spots are open to the public, whether it is the peach blossoms waiting to bloom, the peony symbolizing wealth and auspiciousness, or the elegant and noble narcissus, a pot of New Year's flowers is like a three-dimensional oil painting, decorating the corner of the city, but also entrusting people's yearning and expectation for a better life in the new year.
The Phalaenopsis orchid in Yanzhou, Shandong Province dances with its dancing posture, as if to show people the arrival of spring; The red-fruited holly and large-flowered Huilan in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, render a strong festive atmosphere with fiery enthusiasm and elegant temperament. The flower market is crowded, bustling with fireworks and vibrant expectations for the new year.At the same time, the integration of intangible cultural heritage markets in various places became a highlight during the Spring Festival. The streets and alleys of Pudong, Shanghai, are hung with 30,000 lanterns of different shapes and colors, like stars falling into the dust, lighting up the city at night and creating a fantastic visual feast for citizens and tourists. The Chinese New Year Lantern Festival in Chengde, Hebei Province is even more fascinating, under the bright lights, all kinds of exquisite lanterns compete for beauty, traditional skills and modern technology are blended here, showing the timeless and vigorous vitality of the ancient culture.
The Spring Festival, a traditional festival that carries thousands of years of historical memory of the Chinese nation, is not only a day for families to reunite, but also an important carrier for the inheritance and development of Chinese culture. Through a variety of activities, it presents intangible cultural heritage such as paper-cutting, New Year paintings, calligraphy, singing and dancing, and food to the world, so that every participant can deeply appreciate the profound and far-reaching connotation of Chinese culture while enjoying the joy of the festival.
When night falls, the lights of thousands of homes are lit up, whether it is the New Year's celebration in the snowy regions of the north, or the reunion and song in the warm land of the south, that enthusiasm and piety for the Lunar New Year are our common cultural imprint. Let us taste the mellow fragrance of history together, feel the spiritual power of the nation, and work together to inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, so that it will shine more brilliantly in the context of the new era.