Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Village Voice News
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Village Voice News
No Result
View All Result
Home Global

Spring Festival traditions revived, developed

Admin by Admin
January 24, 2023
in Global
A family gathers to have dinner together on Lunar New Year's Eve in southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 21, 2023. (Photo by Li Hua/Xinhua)

A family gathers to have dinner together on Lunar New Year's Eve in southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 21, 2023. (Photo by Li Hua/Xinhua)

0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Support Village Voice News With a Donation of Your Choice.

BEIJING,  (Xinhua) — To many Chinese, the most important cultural tradition of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, is the family reunion.

But joining the family is just the beginning, as there are many more traditions that follow.

READ ALSO

Anesthesia drug put on control list to halt abuse

Beijing police intensify efforts against fraud

Take Zhang Qinwei as an example. Zhang, a businessman, just returned to his hometown in south China’s Guangdong Province from Dubai, after spending his last three Spring Festivals overseas.

In his tight schedule during the holiday, he will join the family in preparing the festive food, paying tribute to ancestors, and visiting relatives and friends in person.

Advertisement

Overseas Chinese have long been taking the Spring Festival traditions with them, but returning home brings extra warmth to Zhang.

He said that over the past few years he greatly missed the tastes of the traditional new year pastries and snacks popular in his hometown.

The food element of Spring Festival traditions varies across regions. From dumplings to sticky rice cakes, from fried meatballs to braised fish, all dishes shared always carry the best blessings for the family in the new year.

A craftsman colors a clay rabbit at a clay art workshop in north China’s Hebei Province, Jan. 16, 2023. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)

A large number of festival foods, decorations and performing arts, identified as intangible cultural heritages, have also received growing attention during the Spring Festival.

In Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, folk artists expressed their blessings by cutting rabbit patterns out of red papers, while clay sculpture crafter Li Junping enjoyed showing tourists how to create cute rabbits at an intangible cultural heritage fair in Shaanxi Province.

Li said his adjustment to the traditional design, by incorporating modern elements, became an instant hit in the Year of the Rabbit, adding that more and more young people are embracing traditional culture and joining the ranks, introducing innovative thinking and making the traditional crafts younger and more vibrant.

People visit a special exhibition for the Year of the Rabbit in the Shanghai Museum, Jan. 22, 2023. (Xinhua/Ren Long)

Festival traditions are also evolving, as it is noteworthy that many Chinese are exploring new ways of spending their Spring Festival holiday, such as visiting museums, exhibitions and bookstores.

More than 2,200 Spring Festival-related exhibitions and activities are being presented at over 900 museums across the country, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration.

For those not interested in physical travel, the cinemas also offer rich new choices during the week-long holiday, from domestic sci-fi film “The Wandering Earth II” to suspense comedy “Full River Red.”

On Sunday, the first day of the Lunar New Year, China’s box office revenue exceeded 1.34 billion yuan (about 197.5 million U.S. dollars), according to box office tracker Dengta Data.

(Web editor: Peng Yukai, Liu Ning)

(Source:People’s Daily Online)



Support Village Voice News With a Donation of Your Choice



ShareTweetSendShareSend

Related Posts

[Photo/VCG]
Global

Anesthesia drug put on control list to halt abuse

by Admin
September 27, 2023

By Yang Zekun Prevention of misuse of substitute substances priority, says authority The short-acting anesthetic etomidate will be placed under...

Read more
Online fraud suspects are returned to China from Indonesia on a chartered flight on Wednesday. [PHOTO/CHINA DAILY]
Global

Beijing police intensify efforts against fraud

by Admin
September 27, 2023

By CAO YIN Beijing police have solved more than 4,500 cases of fraud since the end of June, with intensified...

Read more
Wang Huning, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), addresses a reception held in Beijing to celebrate the upcoming 74th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 25, 2023. The reception was organized by the General Office of the CPPCC National Committee, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. (Xinhua/Gao Jie)
Global

China’s top political advisor calls for boosting patriotic united front at National Day reception

by Admin
September 26, 2023

BEIJING, (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Monday called for consolidating and developing the broadest patriotic united...

Read more
Next Post
Minister of Housing and Water, Hon. Collin Croal

Over $3.9M in contracts handed over for installation of distribution system & storage facility for Kwebanna water supply system

EDITOR'S PICK

Government expresses concern about high incidences of drunken driving on roadways

April 23, 2023
Guyana School of Agriculture graduate, Ms. Kelshine Griffith, who now owns Shine Agri Manufacturing, stands beside a display of her pilot agro-processing product, boxed Sweet Potato Cake Mix. (Guyana Chronicle photo)

ExxonMobil plugs $10M into GMSA digital platform to promote agro-processing sector 

August 28, 2020
Photo- Google credit

Herbal Section | Health Benefits of Okra 

May 8, 2022

Eighteen students participated in a Students’ Mental Health Video Competition

August 11, 2023

© 2022 Village Voice | Developed by Ink Creative Agency

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us

© 2022 Village Voice | Developed by Ink Creative Agency