What other countries in the world celebrate Chinese New Year as an official holiday

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, but also a good day to go home and reunite, so what other countries in the world celebrate the Spring Festival? People who go abroad can go down to read the article or click on the collection, must be people who go abroad is more concerned about the problem, and a look at the world which countries will be the Spring Festival as a legal holiday! Welcome to read.

What countries in the world will be the Spring Festival as a legal holiday

As the Chinese nation inherited thousands of years of important festivals, the Spring Festival in the veins of the Chinese culture, has a pivotal position. At the same time, as the Spring Festival continues to spread faster and more influential overseas, it has also become a unique brand showcasing traditional Chinese culture.

Nowadays, the Spring Festival has been celebrated in nearly 200 countries around the world, and nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival as a legal holiday in their entirety or in some of their jurisdictions. The Spring Festival has become a global holiday with a strong Chinese flavor.

"Spring Festival time" global **** degree

On the evening of February 13, the Empire State Building in New York, the United States, the landmark building lit up red lights. The next day, the Hudson River in New York, the dazzling fireworks over the sky, these are the local activities organized to welcome the Chinese Lunar New Year. Coincidentally, in Cairo, Egypt, the Cairo Tower was also lit up on New Year's Eve to symbolize the festive "Chinese red", 187-meter-high Cairo Tower from low to high gradually illuminated by the red light, accompanied by acrobatics, lion dance, Sichuan Opera face-changing and other cultural performances, to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. Trafalgar Square in London, England, also on the third day of the Lunar New Year drums and drums, colorful flags. Nearly 700,000 British people, overseas Chinese and foreign tourists*** celebrated Chinese New Year. This has become the largest Chinese New Year celebration outside of Asia.

In addition to the three cities mentioned above, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Buenos Aires ...... major cities across the globe have also organized various events to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.

In recent years, Chinese New Year time has become a standard part of annual cultural events around the world.

In the United Kingdom, Chinese New Year celebrations have gone beyond Chinatown, with large-scale Chinese New Year events held every year, and even 300,000 local people and overseas Chinese chanting "congratulations on your fortune" in unison. In Canada, the Chinese New Year has been quietly introduced to the land of maple leaves since 1858, when the first Chinese set foot on Canadian soil. Nowadays, there are more than a million Canadians of Chinese descent across the country, and the Chinese New Year has taken root as an important local festival.

What's especially noteworthy is that in recent years, the form of celebrating the Spring Festival around the world has not only been limited to paying respect to each other, setting off fireworks, and organizing lantern festivals, but has become more of a cultural exchange. For example, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, hundreds of students in New York, the United States in the Lincoln Center David Geffen Concert Hall to participate in the "Chinese New Year Student Day" activities, *** with the creation of a New York version of the "Riverside Scene at Qingming.

"For Canadians, Chinese New Year celebrations have long been recognized as an international cultural event, especially in major cities with large Chinese populations such as Vancouver and Toronto." said Jan Walls, a professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

Australian Federal Member of Parliament Julian Hill said Chinese New Year is not just a festival for the Chinese community in Australia, but has now become an integral part of the cultural festivities of mainstream Australia.

Foreign mayors make dumplings and give out red packets

The Chinese New Year has been going out of the country as a traditional Chinese festival for many years. In the past, every Chinese New Year, the dragon dance, lion dance, snacks and lanterns in Chinatowns around the world attracted local people to stop and watch. With the expansion of the size of the Chinese community and the fusion of Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges, the Spring Festival in the spread of overseas speed is also accelerating, more and more countries, people, through the Chinese Spring Festival, feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture.

Zhang Bo, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Studies at Beijing Union University, believes that the Spring Festival has a long history, rich in connotations, and has a cultural **** enjoyment significance, "The people of other countries or nationalities may not necessarily y understand the connotations of the festival. However, some activities of the Spring Festival will still attract them."

As China's influence grows, the importance that Chinese people receive overseas is increasing day by day, and this is reflected in the Chinese New Year festivities. Today, Chinese New Year has increasingly entered the mainstream of overseas countries and is officially recognized. Every year, dignitaries around the globe make statements to congratulate all Chinese and Asian people on the Lunar New Year when it comes.

For example, during this year's Lunar New Year, the Mayor of Sydney appeared in Chinatown, handing out red envelopes to passers-by; Mayor Turner of Houston, USA, dressed in a red Tang suit, came to a local Chinese doctor's home to learn how to make dumplings and to pay tribute to the local Chinese diaspora; and the Governor of Alaska, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, USA, visited the Chinese School of the Alaska Overseas Chinese Fellowship Association in Anchorage to pay tribute to the Chinese community.

At the same time, China to create a series of Spring Festival activities brand also continue to cause the world *** vibration, in the world's "Spring Festival time" in the strongest voice. For example, the "Cultural China - Spring Festival on All Seas" activities have been held since 2009, not only to the majority of overseas compatriots to send the country's (home) New Year's blessings, but also in the world "circle" countless fans.

According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 20 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Mauritius, etc., the Chinese Spring Festival as a whole or under the jurisdiction of some of the city's legal holidays. For example, on February 17, 2002, then-President Megawati declared the Chinese Lunar New Year a national holiday for all of Indonesia. The U.S. state of New York enacted legislation in 2004 to designate the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year as a legal holiday in the state of New York.In 2017, the city of Montville, New Jersey, U.S., included Chinese Lunar New Year in the holiday calendar of local public schools.

"As China's comprehensive national power has significantly increased, the radiation field of Chinese culture is also expanding. The significance of the Spring Festival has gone beyond the Chinese sphere to have a worldwide impact." Charles Onunayiju, director of the Center for Chinese Studies in Nigeria, said.

"The Spring Festival is a window"

Recently, the Research Report on Overseas Awareness of Chinese Words released by the Chinese Foreign Language Bureau showed that among the top 100 Chinese words in terms of awareness, cultural words accounted for the largest share, and Chinese traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival made the list. Chinese traditional festivals, such as the Spring Festival, made the list. It is worth noting that Hanyu Pinyin words account for nearly 50% of the words on the list. This means that many of the Chinese words that were translated into English in the past have been directly replaced by hanyu pinyin, and the traditional Chinese culture words such as Chinese New Year make up the largest part of the vocabulary.

Experts analyze that this is a sign of the global public's deepening sense of participation in traditional Chinese culture, such as the Spring Festival. With the Spring Festival and other traditional Chinese festivals and folklore more and more profound impact on the world, the Chinese people's way of life, way of thinking and way of speaking is also quietly changing the world. From this point of view, as the Chinese people for thousands of years the formation of the cultural brand carrier, the Spring Festival to overseas, undoubtedly represents the international community's acceptance of Chinese culture increased, at the same time, it also means that the Chinese culture and the world's cultures and cultural convergence.

Patrick Lorre, Principal of Goldsmiths College, University of London, believes that the Spring Festival has become a cultural bridge between China and the world. "More and more Chinese people are going out of the country and covering every corner of the world, they introduce their proud identities, cultures and traditions to the whole world, make friends with their own excellent traditional cultures, and build bridges to connect the world, which is a very important way of communication."

"Every year, an estimated 60 percent of the population in Cambodia celebrates the Chinese New Year, which cannot be separated from the close relationship and traditional friendship between Cambodia and China. The Spring Festival promotes cultural exchanges between China and Cambodia and brings the hearts of the two peoples closer," said Thanor Rasak Post, Secretary of State at the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Arts."

Jon Taylor, a professor at the University of St. Thomas Houston, regards the Chinese New Year as a "window of cultural exchange". He believes that the reform and opening up so that more and more Chinese people and the Spring Festival as a representative of the Chinese culture into the United States, and the collection of folklore, art, food as one of the Spring Festival celebrations to the American people to bring a refreshing feeling. Some states in the U.S. have even listed the Spring Festival as a state holiday, through the Spring Festival, more and more Americans have deepened their understanding of China.

"The Spring Festival is a window for participating Americans to touch the real Chinese culture, which enhances their understanding of China's history and reality, and enhances friendship." Taylor said.