The meaning of the Spring Festival

With the remarkable improvement of China's comprehensive national strength, the radiation field of China culture is also expanding. The significance of the Spring Festival has gone beyond the scope of China, but has a worldwide influence.

The Spring Festival is not unique to China. Among the countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, Viet Nam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia are all affected by China culture, and all have legal holidays.

Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Generally, preparations for the Spring Festival begin in the middle of December of the lunar calendar. On New Year's Eve, Vietnamese families will prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, and the whole family will get together for a reunion dinner. 、

Chinese families in Singapore get together to make rice cakes every year. The whole family get together, make all kinds of cakes, talk about family and have fun.

National "annual festivals"

Neighboring countries have always been influenced by our culture. In Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the year. On the Korean peninsula, the Lunar New Year is called "New Year's Day" or "Old Correction", and the first to third day of the first month is a national legal holiday. The Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday lasts from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first month, plus Saturday and Sunday, ***6 days. ?

Some Southeast Asian countries where Chinese live in concentrated communities also make the Lunar New Year a legal holiday. In Singapore, the first to third day of the first month is a public holiday. Chinese in Malaysia account for a quarter of the total population, and the government has designated the first and second days of the first month as legal holidays. Indonesia and the Philippines, which have a large number of Chinese, designated the Lunar New Year as a national public holiday in 2003 and 2004 respectively, but the Philippines did not have a holiday.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival