Preface.
The Spring Festival of 2024 has just ended, and I believe everyone has noticed a miraculous phenomenon: the wind direction has changed. This year, in addition to Chinese preparing for the Spring Festival, other countries around the world have also followed our example and started to prepare items needed for the Spring Festival, such as firecrackers, Spring Festival and a series of items related to the Spring Festival!
This magical phenomenon does mean that the wind direction has changed. Now, everyone must be curious why other countries besides China have started to celebrate the Chinese New Year. What is the mystery? Next, let's find out together, why do these foreigners follow us Chinese for the Spring Festival?
For us Chinese, the Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals. No matter what difficulties have been encountered in the past, the Spring Festival moment is a time to go home and reunite with loved ones and spend the New Year together. Although today's Spring Festival is not as lively and perfect as in the past, in the hearts of Chinese, the Spring Festival still occupies an incomparable position!
On December 22, 2023, the Chinese New Year ushered in an important decision, that is, to become a United Nations holiday! This decision has pushed the Chinese New Year to the world stage, and since then, people around the world have realized the existence of the Chinese New Year!
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2024 is the first Chinese New Year after the Chinese New Year becomes a United Nations holiday! I believe that it is precisely because the Chinese New Year has become a United Nations holiday that countries around the world have begun to follow our Chinese for the Spring Festival! In that case, it makes sense. Since then, the Spring Festival has become known all over the world, and it is only natural that other countries have developed great curiosity about our traditional Chinese festivals. Therefore, during the Spring Festival in 2024, countries around the world will begin to follow our Spring Festival traditions such as sticking Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and making dumplings. Of course, the Chinese New Year becoming a United Nations holiday is only part of the reason. In addition to this, there are many other factors that work together to make our Chinese New Year spread around the world. Next, let's take a look at the reasons why other countries celebrate the Spring Festival.
First of all, our Spring Festival culture has a long history and has been passed down for thousands of years. The culture of the Spring Festival has been constantly evolving and rich, and it was officially established as the Chinese New Year on the first day of the first lunar month in 1913. At that time, the Spring Festival was already very perfect, and every family was very happy to celebrate the New Year!
Decades have passed, and China's power has grown, and it has begun to attract foreigners' curiosity about Chinese culture. The culture of the Chinese New Year gradually became known to foreigners, shocking them. The Chinese New Year has been passed down for thousands of years and has an incredible history, and these foreigners are fascinated by the Chinese New Year!
It can be said that the Chinese New Year culture has deeply influenced foreigners, which is another factor for foreigners to start celebrating the Spring Festival. After all, the status of the Chinese New Year is there, and it does have the strength to be admired by foreigners! Therefore, now many countries choose to celebrate the Chinese New Year like us Chinese! After talking about the Chinese New Year culture, let's look at other reasons.
Since the reform and opening up in the last century, China has begun to rise and experienced development from nothing to world-famous. Over the years, China has made great efforts to make the country stronger. At this time, people may wonder, what does the country's strength have to do with the Spring Festival abroad? Relationships exist!
Over the years, China's strength has continued to grow, and more and more products have been exported abroad. Nowadays, there are many products in foreign shopping malls that are marked "Made in China"! It is precisely because of the increase in China's strength that more people in the world have recognized China!
China itself is a country with a huge cultural heritage, otherwise it would not be possible to become one of the four ancient civilizations in the world! As China grows stronger, it naturally attracts tourists from other countries around the world, making Chinese culture begin to sell well overseas, allowing people from other countries around the world to come into contact with Chinese culture!
Now, many high-tech products are unique to China, such as Huawei mobile phones, Hongqi cars and a series of high-tech products sell well, so that more people come into contact with China and are full of curiosity about China, therefore, these people began to explore China!
Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals for us Chinese, so foreigners are beginning to try to get in touch with the unique cultural heritage of Chinese New Year. Because of this, the Chinese New Year began to spread to the world. Coincidentally, the Chinese New Year became a United Nations holiday last year, so during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2024, people from all over the world have followed our Chinese to celebrate the Spring Festival together!
This proves that China's position in the hearts of people all over the world is very important. After all, not every country's most important festival will be known to the whole world, which means that China is no longer the China of the past, and China has gone to a whole new world!
To sum up, the main reason why countries around the world have started to celebrate the Spring Festival is that our strength is already extremely strong, and it can be recognized by the United Nations holiday, isn't this the best proof?
After talking about why other countries celebrate our Chinese New Year, let's take a look at how other countries celebrate the Spring Festival. I think all of you here are curious! Let's take a look at how other countries celebrate the Spring Festival in 2024.
As the Chinese New Year approaches in 2024, not only we Chinese have begun to celebrate the Spring Festival, but other countries around the world are also busy preparing for the Spring Festival. We post Spring Festival Lian, and foreigners also post Spring Festival Lian, which shows their desire for the Spring Festival, and they also want to welcome the New Year happily like us Chinese!
Of course, this year they not only posted Spring Festival couplets, but also held many other activities, such as lion dances, firecrackers, etc. The most important thing is to make dumplings, and they won't miss it either. From these activities, we can see that the Chinese New Year no longer belongs only to China, it has begun to spread to the whole world!
During this year's Chinese New Year, I saw many foreigners on the Internet beating gongs and drums in the streets wearing our traditional Chinese costumes. Aren't these Chinese elements just proof that the Chinese New Year has become famous overseas? In foreign countries, we can also see the blessings of many foreigners. Although these blessings are not in Chinese, we can still feel their love for the Chinese New Year. After all, festivals in other countries don't have the honor of our Chinese New Year. Therefore, these foreigners attach great importance to us Chinese and the Chinese New Year!
If they don't pay attention, how can they write blessings in their own country? Therefore, these blessings prove that the Chinese New Year has been integrated into the hearts of people all over the world, and it is no longer a unique festival in China, but has become a global "Chinese New Year"!
However, in this global Spring Festival, our country has no previous celebratory atmosphere, which has caused many Chinese people to complain. It's normal to think that it's our own holiday, but now foreigners are happier than us. After all, the Spring Festival was full of flavor in the past, and children are looking forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival, because at that time they can enjoy the interesting Spring Festival Gala and taste all kinds of food! But in this developed era, although our overall standard of living has improved, the taste of the New Year is not as good as before. Have we changed ourselves, or have the times changed? This is a question worth pondering.
Although the Chinese New Year is not as joyous as it used to be, it still holds an important place in our hearts. Not only because it has been passed down for thousands of years, but also because it is a haven for the hearts and minds of many of us. No matter what the Spring Festival is like now, the Spring Festival when I was a child was the happiest time for me. At that time, we lived a carefree and innocent life, going out for a run with our friends during the Spring Festival. Even though that time is over, it's still a time I miss! I believe that all of you here will also have many precious memories during the Spring Festival!
Therefore, even if the current Spring Festival is not as joyous as before, it still holds an extraordinary place in our hearts! Nowadays, our Chinese New Year has spread to the whole world, which proves that our China has risen! Now China has become a global model, and the Chinese New Year may soon become the "Chinese New Year" of the world!
That's all for this article. I believe that one day, the Spring Festival of the past will return to us again. At that time, we will all be very happy, and the people of the world will welcome the arrival of the New Year on the same day. After all, the current Spring Festival has spread to the whole world! I believe that sooner or later, the time will come when the Chinese New Year will become the "Chinese New Year" of the world!
As a Chinese, I am very proud to see the Spring Festival spread to the whole world. This is the export of culture, and it is also a proof of the strength of our China! I believe that the day when the Chinese New Year will become the "Chinese New Year" of the world will come sooner or later!