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What is the significance of the New Year

The traditional Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival, the significance of the New Year:

1, shallow: the Spring Festival is China's most important, the most grand and at the same time is also the most characteristic of the traditional festivals, the Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years of history. The Spring Festival is a festival of family reunion of the Chinese nation, people in the day of the Spring Festival as much as possible to return home and reunite with loved ones, to express the fervent hope for the coming year and the new year of life's good wishes. The Spring Festival is not only a festival, but also an important carrier for Chinese people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands, it is the annual carnival of the Chinese nation and the eternal spiritual pillar.

2, deeper: the Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent traditions of Chinese culture, contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, cohesion of the Chinese people's pursuit of life and emotional support, inherited from the Chinese social and ethical concepts; therefore, we must vigorously promote the Spring Festival condensed by the excellent traditional culture, highlighting the old and welcome the new, the blessings, the reunion of the peace and prosperity and so on, and strive to create a harmonious family, stability and unity, and the development of a new culture. Therefore, we must vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional culture embodied in the Spring Festival, highlighting the themes of celebrating the old and welcoming the new, blessings, reunion, peace, prosperity, etc., and strive to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability, unity, joy and peace, and to promote the continuous development of Chinese culture.