CCTV News (News Network): The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. With the successful application for World Heritage, the Spring Festival carries the Chinese culture to better move to the world. At the end of the program, let us share the beauty of family reunion and family life.
"The year of the hundred festivals is the first, and the spring of the four seasons is the first." The Spring Festival is a festival to celebrate the arrival of spring. The land of China is decorated with lights and colors everywhere, welcoming the New Year together.
The folk customs in various places are rich and colorful and have their own characteristics, such as visiting temple fairs, enjoying lanterns, guessing riddles, dancing dragons and lions.
Give blessings in the New Year. People put on new clothes, visit relatives and friends, and send New Year's greetings. Children look forward to receiving New Year’s money, which is the care and expectation of elders for them.
The Spring Festival is also commonly known as the New Year. The Chinese New Year in a broad sense starts from Laba or the Little New Year and continues until the Lantern Festival.
Spring Festival also goes abroad and blooms charm on the world stage. Many countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival as a statutory holiday. The Chinese culture contained in the Spring Festival is being loved by more and more people.
"The Spring Festival is a new beginning, indicating new hope." Spring returns to the earth, and everything is renewed.
