What culture or national spirit does the Spring Festival contain?

The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Chinese nation and the biggest event in folk life. In thousands of years of farming life, people's life is consistent with the natural rhythm. The year 2008 is the beginning of the natural seasonal cycle, a new starting point of people's life and the same node of life. It is natural that people express their hopes, longings and longings for the future through old customs. For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has collectively created a set of extremely thick and rich Chinese culture. The essence of Chinese culture is spirit and ideal. It is the carrier of the Chinese nation's spirit, culture, morality, values and aesthetics, and most vividly embodies the unique cultural genes of the Chinese nation. It is the most fascinating embodiment of China's cultural image; It is the source of national cohesion and affinity; It is the spiritual heritage and traditional soft power of the Chinese nation. No matter from the cultural scale and value, or from the spiritual connotation and significance, the Spring Festival is the biggest intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.

The most important value of New Year culture is its spiritual value. All the folk items in the New Year culture, including jiaozi, firecrackers and New Year greetings, have far-reaching significance. They are all China people's wishes for customs, auspiciousness, health, unity, harmony, evil spirits, smoothness and perfection. All these are reflected in all the folk details in life. China culture is our tradition for thousands of years, which is linked with unforgettable memories in our blood.

In foreign countries, there is also a saying that the Spring Festival is to seek roots, so there is also the most important national spirit in the Spring Festival, that is, patriotism.