The Spring Festival is the traditional Lunar New Year, commonly known as the "New Year Festival", traditionally known as the "New Year", the "Great Year", the "New Age", but also known verbally as the "New Year's Eve" and the "New Year Celebration", is the most grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival, which originated from the ancestor worship activities in the Yin and Shang dynasties, is one of the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional festivals in China.
The greatness of the Chinese New Year lies in the fact that all people in a country can join the annual migration so naturally, willingly and genuinely, regardless of the season, region, ethnicity, age or gender. What is the cohesive power of this major event that never fails to be celebrated?
This is the power of kinship in the family and the bond of blood in the clan, which enables the Chinese to consciously follow the principles of feudal ethics and to move forward as one for thousands of years!
It is much more important than religion, politics and money. Whether your home is in the poor rural village or in the modern city, you have to travel thousands of miles to go home, and no force can stop the Chinese from going home for the New Year.
People's recognition of customs is a reflection of the consistency of the state of life for a long time, and the integration will inevitably form a common collective personality, thus constructing the cultural values of the Chinese nation, the artery of this culture is the family at its core that derives into the line of affection. Wherever the Chinese go, there is an invisible line tied to their hearts. There are lines as many as the Chinese people, and together, these lines are woven into Chinese people’s bloodlines. This great cohesion has never faded, regardless of the change of dynasties, the wish for Chinese people going home in New Year's Eve has always been the same. The saying, "No matter whether you have money or not, you have to go home for New Year's Eve," is the Chinese people's inheritance of their bloodline.
Some people once worried that foreign festivals like Christmas and Valentine's Day would weaken the Chinese people's love for their traditional festivals. But when you stand at the stations, ferries and airports during the Spring Festival and look at those who are going home, you will know what an unstoppable force the aspiration is.
Even if all the world's festivals were written on the calendar, it wouldn't shake the Chinese fever's yearning for the Spring Festival. How amazing it is that a traditional festival melted in the cultural genes can have such a powerful integrating power on this nation.
The spring Festival is a kind of recognition and confidence in culture, the Chinese cultural heritage through thousands of years of breeding consciously converged into the folklore, people's willing and public opinions. Our Spring Festival is the best manifestation of the love of life and affection of Chinese people all over the world!
A great nation is bound to create a great culture, and a great culture is bound to unite a great nation! Greatness doesn't come from words, it is the huge community, after thousands of years of trials and tribulations and rooted in the bloodline identity, which is the charm of the Chinese civilization!