Spring Festival. It is the grandest and most lively traditional festival in China.
New Year's greetings. It is the most distinctive custom during the Spring Festival.
Friends and family congratulate each other.
Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. We hope for a happy Chinese New Year and peace for the country.
New Year's greetings are one of the main activities of the Chinese to celebrate the Spring Festival. This is about the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, when the old Beijingers greeted the New Year and congratulated each other on the New Year.
This is Beijing at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and women dressed up to go out to visit relatives and friends.
According to Mongolian customs, children greet each other on the first day of the new year, and parents treat them warmly with sumptuous food. This is the scene of Mongolian herdsmen greeting the New Year during the Spring Festival in 1982.
During the Spring Festival in 1992, the villagers of Yanggang Village in the suburbs of Kunming set up dragon lanterns and went door to door to greet the villagers, and the whole village was a happy scene.
With the development of the times and the progress of society.
The way of greeting the New Year is constantly changing with the times.
*New Year's greetings, SMS New Year's greetings.
Flower New Year's greetings, **New Year's greetings......
What changes is the form.
What remains unchanged is family and friendship.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2001, agricultural and forestry science and technology personnel in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province carried out the activity of "New Year's Greetings in Science and Technology". This is an agricultural scientist (left) introducing the management knowledge of Xinmei to Yi farmers in Dasongdian Village, Eryuan County.
In 2001, before the Spring Festival, the children of the Baota Road Central Primary School in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, went to the nursing homes in the suburbs and towns to perform for the elderly and greet them.
During the Spring Festival in 2002, a herdsman in Niannai Suoma Village, Gangcha County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, used the newly installed wireless access** to greet his relatives in Xining.
It was the Spring Festival of 2003, and a girl in Beijing was overjoyed after receiving a text message from a friend. New Year's greetings such as "e-cards" and "text messages" became fashionable at the time.
On February 7, 2005, employees of a flower shop on Park Road in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, were arranging flowers. Before the Spring Festival, the sales of flowers in Suzhou were very hot.
On January 28, 2006, a citizen of Shangyu District, Zhejiang Province paid "face-to-face" New Year's greetings to relatives and friends in other places.
On January 31, 2006, at an Internet café in Qijiaping Town, Yuanling County, Huaihua, Hunan Province, an elderly Tujia and his son and daughter-in-law who were working outside the country and could not go home for the Chinese New Year greeted each other through the Internet.
But no matter how many ways there are to greet the New Year.
It can't replace the reunion of the family during the Spring Festival.
In memory. New Year's greetings are the blessings of the younger generations to the elders.
It is a respectful greeting between neighbors.
It is a gratitude for the mutual help between family and friends.
It is a beautiful yearning for a new year's life.
For children.
This day is the happiest.
Because it comes with New Year's greetings.
You can receive red envelopes for New Year's money.
On February 9, 2005, the first day of the first lunar month, a group of tourists boarded the capsule of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai and wrote their wishes on the cards, leaving the best wishes for the New Year on the top of the city.
On February 3, 2011, the first day of the first lunar month, in Barrow Town, Johor, Malaysia, according to traditional customs, an elder gave the junior New Year's money to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
New Year's greetings carry folk customs.
It is an old rite of inheritance.
It's the smell of oil from eating in the alley.
It's the smell of fireworks from children setting off firecrackers......
These flavors make up a unique and festive "New Year's flavor".
On January 29, 2006, the first day of the first lunar month, Hefang Street in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province was very lively, and many citizens and tourists came to go shopping, appreciate the unique activities of folk artists and taste food.
Time flies. With the quiet change of the traditional New Year's flavor.
People are reunited at the same time as the Spring Festival.
The choice is also abundant.
Chinese New Year greetings are no longer the only event.
Reading, gardening, traveling, visiting museums, ......
But what will never change is the blessing and the feeling of longing.
It is the cultural root that is integrated into the blood of the Chinese people.
On January 28, 2017, the first day of the first lunar month, people went out of their homes to celebrate the New Year happily through various activities. This is a family of three reading books at Xinhua Bookstore in Yantai City, Shandong Province.
On January 28, 2017, the first day of the first lunar month, tourists visited the Kuanzhai Alley Scenic Area in Chengdu, Sichuan.
On February 16, 2018, the first day of the first lunar month, in the Tiger Hill Mountain Scenic Area in Suzhou, Jiangsu, folk artists dressed up as Fu Lu Shou Samsung to send New Year blessings to tourists.
On January 22, 2023, the first day of the first lunar month, visitors lined up outside the Shanghai Museum to enter the museum.
Planner: Wang Jianhua, Li Ga.
Co-ordinator: Fei Maohua, Zhou Daqing.
Host of this issue: Zhou Daqing.
Poster, **Zhou Daqing, Yin Dongxun, Kang Yifei (internship).
Visual Design: Kang Yifei (Intern).
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Editors: Wang Nuo, Zhou Daqing, Zhang Cheng, Fei Maohua.
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