CCTV News: Unique houses and houses, rich and colorful rural customs, and extensive and profound humanistic heritage. During the Spring Festival, more than 4,500 traditional villages launched special festivals to show the unique charm of traditional Chinese villages to tourists from all over the world.
During the Spring Festival, Liuliqu Village in Mentougou District, Beijing, known as the "China Royal Glass Hometown", held various activities to allow tourists to touch colorful glass products, witness the ancient skills of glass calcination, and feel the unique and rich New Year atmosphere of the countryside in the suburbs of Beijing.
The rich cultural connotation of traditional villages attracts not only young people. Amin from Austria is a "foreign villager". This year marks his third Spring Festival in China with his family.
At present, a total of 8,155 villages in my country are included in the list of traditional village protection in China and have implemented listing protection. During the 2025 Spring Festival, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development guided all localities to actively carry out the "Traditional Villages Celebrate the New Year" activity, closely following the theme of the Spring Festival, combining the agricultural civilization and regional cultural characteristics of the region, carry out various forms of activities, and display the unique houses and houses, festival activities, folk art, rural customs, and humanistic heritage of traditional villages in multiple dimensions.
In the Diaoyuan Ancient Village in Ji'an, Jiangxi, colorful performances such as shadow puppetry, songs and dances, storytelling were performed one after another, and each program is a "limited version" of the Spring Festival.
In Bizhou Village, Liancheng, Fujian, local villagers used traditional dragon lantern parades to pray for a good harvest and celebrate the New Year, attracting a large number of tourists to come and watch.
To this end, the village has specially organized and inherited the Dragon Lantern Tour activities, and the younger generation has also actively participated in lantern making and parades, allowing this ancient skill to be continued.
Statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development show that from the New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the lunar month, a total of 4,522 traditional villages across the country held about 8,586 activities such as yangko, dragon dance, fireworks evening parties, and intangible cultural heritage performances, attracting more than 30.11 million tourists.
