The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with unique cultural charm and profound historical heritage. On December 4 last year, UNESCO officially included the "Social Practice of Chinese Celebrating the Traditional New Year" in the list of representative works of human intangible cultural heritage. This means that we usher in the first "intangible cultural heritage version" Spring Festival this year.

She County, Anhui Province, Zhanqi Fish Lantern Performance

Silver Snake Dance Welcoming Spring. In Nanjing, Jiangsu, the Qinhuai Lantern Festival, which is one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, is brightly lit, and the rising New Year and folk flavors are coming; in Zhanqi Village, She County, Anhui, the fish lantern that has "swimmed" for 800 years is unveiled in the local "village evening", and the intangible cultural heritage Zhanqi fish lantern is seen by more people through live broadcast; in Chaoyang District, Shantou, Guangdong, the heroic song that integrates various elements such as drama, dance, and martial arts dance again, with a surging momentum and full of charm………The New Year is here, and the atmosphere and ceremony of welcome in various places is full of new year, and the "intangible cultural heritage" sings the protagonist, and the New Year is more mellow.

A inventory of the colorful activities in various places this year, the "intangible cultural heritage" is the strongest. One important reason is that the Spring Festival is closely related to every Chinese. As early as 2006, the State Council was included in the first batch of national representative projects of intangible cultural heritage during the Spring Festival. As the scope of Chinese culture spread overseas is expanding, the global influence of the Spring Festival is also increasing. Now that the Spring Festival has successfully applied for the World Heritage, various intangible cultural heritage activities are held in various places, which is even more special. On the one hand, in the celebrations full of ritual, the simple emotions of us Chinese people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, pray for blessings and bring good fortune, and reunion and happiness, but also inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture. On the other hand, this inheritance not only enriches people's spiritual and cultural life, but also makes the "international style" of the Spring Festival more and more sufficient, and promotes Chinese culture to go global better.

The 2025 "Happy Spring Festival" New Year Celebration Gala was held in Berlin, Germany

Looking at the world, people from many countries have already welcomed the Spring Festival in different ways. For example, at the New Year Temple Fair in Budapest, Hungary, people were enthusiastically experiencing interactive activities such as sugar blowing people and Chinese calligraphy; in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, lion dance, martial arts and folk music performances were wonderful, and local people still had the opportunity to attend large markets, visit temple fairs, and taste authentic Chinese food; in the Yu Garden in Hamburg, Germany, Chinese and German art groups joined hands with Chinese schools to present a wonderful literary and artistic performance, allowing the audience to feel the important role of Chinese traditional culture in the Chinese Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries have regarded the Spring Festival as a legal holiday, and about one-fifth of the world's population celebrates the Spring Festival in different forms. Various Chinese New Year goods are popular in the world, and are popular all over the world.

At the same time, "Intangible Cultural Heritage Spring Festival + Visa Free" is attracting fans with its strength, allowing more overseas tourists to go to China to celebrate the Spring Festival and experience the lively and festive festival up close. Relevant departments expressed that more foreign friends are welcome to come to China, see China, and feel China, and experience the festive joy of the Spring Festival with the Chinese people and experience the cultural charm of the Spring Festival.

"The year of the hundred festivals is the first, and the spring of the four seasons is the first." It can be said that the "intangible cultural heritage version" Spring Festival is not only a key to the world "opening" cultural China, but also a window to showcase Chinese culture. As China's excellent traditional customs continue to shine in the Spring Festival, the value concepts and spiritual pursuits it contains will also gain more attention and recognition worldwide. (Qin Chuan, special commentator of China Radio International)