When was the ancient Arbor Day?

Although there was a saying in ancient China that people were advised to plant trees, the state stipulated by law that Arbor Day is a modern thing. 19 14 Mr. Fei Yili, the founder of Nanjing Jinling University Agricultural College, suggested that the then Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry hoped that the China government would follow suit. 1965438+July 3, 20051China municipal government stipulates that Tomb-Sweeping Day on the first day of the Lunar New Year is Arbor Day every year, and tree planting ceremonies and afforestation activities will be held all over the country, but it has not been formally implemented for some reasons. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Sixth Session of the Standing Committee of the Fifth NPC decided on February 1979 to designate March 12 of each year as Arbor Day. The general provisions of the Amendment to the Forest Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) adopted at the Seventh Session in the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on June 6 stipulated: "Planting trees and protecting forests are citizens' obligations.

Arbor Day in China is scheduled for March 12. March 12 is the anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death. Dr. Sun Yat-sen attached great importance to forestry construction before his death. Shortly after the establishment of the Nanjing government of the Republic of China, where he was the interim president, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry was established in May 19 12, and the State Forestry Administration was headed by the Forest Department. 191410/In June, the first forestry law in China's modern history was promulgated, and in July, 19 15, the government designated Tomb-Sweeping Day as Arbor Day every year. In February, the 6th meeting of the 5th the NPC Standing Committee passed a resolution to designate March 12 as China Arbor Day. The significance of this resolution lies in mobilizing people of all ethnic groups to actively plant trees and speeding up the pace of greening the motherland and various forestry construction. China designated the date of Sun Yat-sen's death as Arbor Day, also to commemorate Sun Yat-sen's great achievements, symbolizing that his unfulfilled wish will be realized in new China and even better.

198 1 in the summer of, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places experienced floods rarely seen in history. On the initiative of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, the Fourth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress (198 1 12) deliberated and adopted a resolution on launching a nationwide voluntary tree planting campaign. 1990 March 12, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of four stamps for "greening the motherland" again. The first stamp is "voluntary tree planting by the whole people". The resolution pointed out that all China people and citizens aged1/kloc-0 should voluntarily plant 3 to 5 trees every year according to local conditions, except the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, or complete the tasks of seedling raising, management and other greening with corresponding labor. The resolution calls on the people of all ethnic groups in the country to "start with everyone, plant trees every year, and fools move mountains and persevere." 1982 On Arbor Day, Comrade Deng Xiaoping set an example and planted the first tree of the voluntary tree planting movement in Yuquan Mountain, Beijing.

Since then, voluntary tree planting has been put into practice as a legal obligation that citizens must fulfill, and a voluntary tree planting movement with the largest scale, the largest number of participants and the most remarkable results in the world has been continuously carried out in China.