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What is the significance of the Spring Festival?

The significance of the Spring Festival lies in harmony, peace and reunion. During the Spring Festival, people will try their best to go home and reunite with their loved ones, expressing their ardent expectations for the coming year and their best wishes for life in the new year.

Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and ambitions, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the carnival of blessing, eating and entertainment activities.

People say that where there is sea water, there are Chinese sons and daughters, and where there are Chinese sons and daughters, there is the Spring Festival. Look at the land of China and the world. During the Spring Festival, fireworks are blooming, dragons are dancing and laughter is rippling. The Spring Festival is lively in China, and it is also going to the world. The Spring Festival is not only the Spring Festival of China people, but also the Spring Festival of the world. First of all, the Spring Festival is a festival for relatives and families. People, especially China people, attach the most importance to family and affection. There is an old saying in China: On New Year's Eve, no outsiders eat jiaozi, which means that people who are busy all the year round, wandering around, usually go home during the Spring Festival. Two generations of father and son, three generations of grandparents and even four generations under one roof, toast, bow, be filial to father, mother and wife. People enjoy the warmth of the world with firecrackers, gongs and drums and laughter. This warmth has nothing to do with money, power and snobbery, but a feeling of affection and family happiness. At the same time, the Spring Festival is also a festival to deepen people's feelings, communicate people's relations and unite.

Not only among relatives, but also among strangers, including some people who are alienated and contradictory, they will be polite, smiling and tolerant when they meet during the Spring Festival. A little understanding and care, a word of congratulations on getting rich and a happy New Year, whoever listens is happy. In short, the Spring Festival is a grand festival for people to live in harmony with the land and enjoy themselves. The Spring Festival is a festival that pays attention to traditional culture. Celebrating the Spring Festival is a review and encouragement of peace, friendship and affection, and a blessing and prayer for a better life in the future. Spring Festival culture is a long-standing China culture and oriental culture, which is deeply loved by people and deeply rooted in people's hearts. Nowadays, the Spring Festival is deeply rooted not only in China, but also in the hearts of foreigners. China people value family and affection as much as foreigners. In some countries and regions with China people, foreigners also spend the Spring Festival with China people. In addition to tens of millions of overseas Chinese and students, today more China people go abroad and more foreigners come to China. The entry and exit of people will inevitably promote the entry and exit of culture. There are both western learning and eastern learning. You have me and I have you. East and west absorb the essence of culture and learn from each other. All healthy and civilized things are welcomed by the world.

Cultural exchange makes the world more civilized and life more colorful. The charm of the Spring Festival is the charm of China, the charm of the East and the charm of world civilization. The Spring Festival in China is a contribution to world civilization and a gift to all mankind.