CCTV News (News Network): January 22 is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. All regions are dressed up, and people are making New Year’s goods and savoring folk customs, and the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.
The streets and alleys are decorated with lights and decorations. The 2025 "Beijing Cai" New Year Lantern Festival Carnival meets citizens and tourists at the Beijing Garden Expo Park. This lantern festival has set up more than 100 theme light groups and more than 100,000 colorful light pendants. At the same time, the lantern festival is also combined with the temple fair, allowing everyone to feel the charm of traditional culture in the lively New Year atmosphere. In the ancient city of Huizhou, She County, Anhui Province, by the city walls, on the watchtower, and in the streets and alleys, a bunch of big red lanterns are hung high; on the banks of the Wu River in Zunyi, Guizhou, couplets, Fu characters, red peppers, and the "Chinese red" full of eyes create a happy and peaceful Spring Festival atmosphere.
Twenty-three, sugar melon sticks. In Zezhou County, Jincheng, Shanxi, everyone is busy making local sugar melons to add a strong festive atmosphere to the Little New Year; in Chenyang, Liaoning, everyone eats stove candy and cuts window flowers on the hot kang, share the sweetness, and welcomes the New Year together. The glutinous rice cakes in Hongjiang, Hunan, the sticky bean breads in Qinglong, Hebei, and the steamed fish cakes in Yichang, Hubei... The special foods from all over the country also express everyone's expectations for a sweet life in the new year. Visiting big markets and getting New Year’s goods, in Ningbo, Zhejiang, the “Mianbatangtou City” with a history of nearly 300 years has opened, and the dazzling array of New Year’s goods attracts citizens and tourists from all over the world.
Watch intangible cultural heritage and taste intangible cultural heritage, the hot folk culture has also made the New Year atmosphere stronger and stronger. In Shunde, Guangdong, the golden and plump New Year oranges that symbolize "good luck" usher in a bumper harvest; in Xilingol, Sichuan Mianzhu, Shandong, and other places, ice sports, stilt walking, dry boat rowing and other activities are overwhelming; in many landmark business districts in Shanghai, the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Collection" shows people a number of national intangible cultural heritage such as songs and dances, bench dragons; in Tianjin Ancient Cultural Street, the New Year pictures and money hanging high, and intangible cultural heritage exhibition projects such as Peking Opera, dragon and lion dance in the theater square have attracted many citizens and tourists to stop and watch.
