What's Behind Spring Festival?

Similar to what the Christmas Day means for the westerners,the Spring Festival is the most important celebration for Chinese people.This big event according to Chinese traditional lunar calendar relaxes and pleases the whole country as the happiest gathering time of the year.National-wide crusade for going back home,too-difficult-to-get train tickets,generous family-going-out shopping,Miaohui laundering,New Year Eve reunion dinner,visiting friends and relatives,watching annual TV gala......each piece of clue reminds us of the smell of Chinese Spring Festival.     

LIFESTYLE

Traditional Chinese Festivals: Spring Festival[Chun Jie] The Introduction of Spring Festival The Spring Festival is the most important fstival for the Chinese people,just like Christmas in the West.It contains rich tradition- al culture with long history All people living away from home go back,becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month during the Spring Festival.Airports,railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees The Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year.It originated in the Shang Dynasty(c.1600 BC-c.1100 BC)from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.     

Small Pictures, Big New Year

The Spring Festival, China‘s traditional lunar new year,has a history of a thousand more years, in the meantime, the influence of its cultural and tradition has beenglobally appreciated, for instance, in America, Briton,Australia, New Zealand, the Asian countries, etc., wherever the Chinese people live, the sounds of the Chinese gongs and drums of the Spring Festival celebration can be heard. Why? Because it is hard to find any history or culture of a nation or a nationality in the world can be compared with China‘s Spring Festival.……     

Small Pictures,Big New Year

The Spring Festival. China＇s traditional lunar new year, has a history of a thousand more years, in the meantime, the influence of its cultural and tradition has been globally appreciated, for instance, in America, Briton,Australia.New Zealand, Ihe Asian countries ,etc.,wherever the Chinese people live ,the sounds of the Chinese gongs and drums of the Spring Festival celebration can be heard. Why？     

Traditional Festivals to Become Legal Holidays

As nearly everyone knows already,the state is going to rearrange the schedule of legal holidays. The four traditional Chinese festivals, inluding Mid-Autumn Day, Dragon Boat Festival,Tomb-Sweeping Day and Spring Festival Eve, will be made into legal holidays. As for the Golden Week system, should it be continued or canceled?     

中国的节日

China has 16 legal festivals, including New Year＇s Day, Spring Festival, May Day, National Day, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival when all Chinese people will be on vacation. The other 9 are for special industries or specific people like Women＇s Day, Arbor Day, Youth Day, International Nurse Day, Children＇s Day, Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Com- munist Party （the Party＇s Birthday） and Army Day of the Chinese People＇s Liberation Army, Teacher＇s Day, and Journalists＇ Day. At the festivals, people can enjoy the legal holidays. Always a lot of people go out of their homes for traveling or shopping.     

Traditional Festivals to Become Legal Holidays

As nearly everyone knows already, the state is going to rearrange the schedule of legal holidays.The four traditional Chinese festivals,inluding Mid-Autumn Day,Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Spring Festival Eve,will be made into legal holidays.As for the Golden Week system,should it be continued or canceled?The answer to this question can vary depending on who you talk to,public opinion has formed a gen-     

BEHIND THE Donation

Zhao Benshan,regarded as the King of Xiaopin in China,carried out his skit,The Donation,during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on February 13,Chinese Spring Festival Eve for the Year of the Tiger.The skit was mainly about Zhao's donation of 30,000 Yuan(by a mistake,as he initially wanted to donate 3,000 Yuan) to a local village student whose single mother can't afford his university tuition.This play brought hot discussion afterwards, mainly focusing on the story,which was not as funny as the huge audience...     

BEHIND THE

Zhao Benshan, regarded as the ＂King of Xiaopin＂ in China, carried out his skit, The Donation, during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on Febmary 13, Chinese Spring Festival Eve for the Year of the Tiger. ＂Ihe skit was mainly about Zhao＇s donation of 30,000 Yuan （by a mistake,     

Golden Week, Golden Effect

The Golden Week Holiday System was established in 1999. Bv adding legal holidays and the time off from the previous and following weekends, China made three Golden Weeks (7-day holidays), for the Spring Festival, May Labor Day and National Day in October.Since it was introduced eight years ago,the Golden Weeks have added considerably to China's economic development.The significant role they have played in promoting economic development and changing the Chinese people's concept of consumption and way of living has been witnessed by everyone.     

Golden Week,Golden Effect

The Golden Week Holiday System was established in 1999.By adding legal holi- days and the time off from the previous and following weekends,China made three Golden Weeks (7-day holidays),for the Spring Festival,May Labor Day and National Day in October.Since it was introduced eight years ago,the Golden Weeks have added considerably to China's economic development.The significant role they have played in promoting economic development and changing the Chinese people's concept of consumption and way of living has been witnessed by everyone.     

Smal Pictures,Big New Year

The Spring Festival, China's traditional lunar new year, has a history of a thousand more years, in the meantime, the influence of its cultural and tradition has been globally appreciated, for instance, in America, Briton, Australia, New Zealand, the Asian countries, etc., wherever the Chinese people live, the sounds of the Chinese gongs and drums     

Traditional Festivals Changing with Times

Alot can be learnt about a people from studying its traditional holidays.Even though the specific dates of numerous holidays and festivals have shifted over the years,and like-wise some of the specific activities might no longer exist or might have changed altogether,many of those wishing to compare cultural differences between the West and China start off by looking at Christmas and the Spring Festival.The Chinese New Year is without     

CCPIT CCOIC

On Jan. 16th evening, CCPIT held a party to greet the springof 2001. Chairman of the CCPIT Yu Xiaosong along with otherleaders at council and division management levels received petsfrom home and abroad at the party. Totally 248 foreign guests,including 18 ambassadors to China. 38 commercial consolers,and chairmen of foreign chambers of commerce, attended theparty.Chairman Yu expressed his gratitude to the guests for theirsupport to CCPIT wished all a Happy Spring Festival, and hopefo…     

Slimmed May Day Holiday

Last November the State Council of China decided to renew its holiday system by reducing the seven-day May Day holiday to three days and introducing three new one-day public holidays, namely the Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Moon Festival. By doing so, the three golden-week holidays that were introduced in 1999, namely the Spring Festival, May Day and National Day, could be better distributed.     

Celebrating Spring Festival in China

This year was the first time that I celebrated Spring Festival in Beijing.In previous years I have flown home to spend the holiday with my family.For foreigners,Spring Festival may feel like just another holiday and a few days off,but it has been an amazing experience to celebrate it in China,one that brings me closer to Chinas traditions and values,and will help me understand the country better as I plan to live here longer.I spent a few days of it at mv house     

The Ongoing Year Will Be Much Better than 2020 in All Senses

During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox,China’s Foreign Trade invited several foreign commercial officials and leader from foreign companies to share their points of view on the changes seen in the last year,as well as their New Year’s wishes and their expectations for 2021.In 2020,the pandemic influenced everyone in the world,as summarized by Victor Cadena,Vice Chairman of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in China:“Our organization and member companies has been influenced by COVID-19 in different ways,as has everyone.”According to Global Economy Outlook,the global economy contracted by 4.4%in 2020.All companies were faced with the challenge of how to survive the global pandemic.A survey released by the Ministry of Commerce shows that nearly 60%of foreign companies in China had an optimistic attitude.Some of our interviewees have lived in China for more than ten years;they believed the policies and measures implemented by the Chinese government were effective.However,they also found that business opportunities continued to emerge,through online meetings,data application,and innovations in medical health.The details are as follows.     

Data Watch on China's Foreign Trade and Investment in January 2012

china's foreign trade in January 2012 According to statistics of the Customs,Chinas exports and imports in the first month of 2012 reached $272.6 billion,down 7.8％ over last year.Specifically,exports stood at $149.94 billion,down 0.5％ year on year,imports $122.66 bilion,down 15.3％.The month saw a trade surplus of $27.28 billion.The 2012 Chinese Spring Festival,which fell on January,factored into the data.     

Data Watch on China's Foreign Trade and Investment in January 2012

China's foreign trade in January 2012 According to statistics of the Customs,China's exports and imports in the first month of 2012 reached $272.6 billion,down 7.8％ over last year.Specifically,exports stood at $149.94 billion,down 0.5％ year on year;imports $122.66 billion,down 15.3％.The month saw a trade surplus of $27.28 billion.The 2012 Chinese Spring Festival,which fell on January,factored into the data.     

Traditional Chinese Festivals：

The Introduction of Spring Festival,Tip 1： The History of Nian-The Origin of Chinese New Year,Tip 2： Spring Festival Couplets,Tip 3： ＂Fu＂ （meaning blessing or happiness） ＆ Red Paper-cuttings,Tip 4： Fire-crackers,Tip 5： Activities During the Spring Festival,