Beijing: China is set to ring in China’s year of spring festival, with traditional festivals and shopping and travel rise during this year’s extended holiday, the first event after UNESCO’s list of unacceptable cultural heritage.
For Chinese worldwide, the spring festival is a time for family alliance, festive traditions, holiday purchases and diverse cultural and tourism activities. This year, it comes with hundreds of people traveling to re -unit with millions of families in the world’s largest annual human migration on January 29.
Today’s celebrations highlight both the traditional and modern elements, from temple fairs, lantern display, lion dance and irreversible cultural heritage markets to village cheeks, lights and drone shows, museum exhibitions, and home and abroad. Travel.
This year, festivals and activities are further enhanced by UNESCO’s identity, consumption pro -consumption policies and an extra day of traditional seven -day holiday.
Family unity and traditional festivals
The Guangzhou Xiang, southern China, provides a rare opportunity for migrant workers like Zhang Changfu, who lives in the sovereign region, a spring festival for family alliance.
“I’ve been working away from home for 20 years, but I work back from home,” said Zhang, 41, who worked as a machining in the southwestern Metropolis of Chengdu. Local Temple Fair.
Temple festivals, folk performances, local dishes and a rotation of traditional crafts, is a familiar look at the year. Although such activities include more traditional elements in the countryside, there is a tradition of having widespread festivals in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.
For others, such as Lin Jia, who works in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, East China, the Spring Festival is the best time for a family visit. Lin’s parents and grandmother traveled from Hunan province to join the holiday.
Lin plans to revolve around the city after a dinner at the HotPot restaurant. “This is both a reunion and a mini -holiday,” he said.
This year, in many cities, UNESCO’s representative of humanitarian cultural heritage in December has the activities of the traditional festival affected by the Bihar festival. Chongqing’s southwestern megati has planned more than 100 undeniable cultural heritage exhibitions, markets and performances during the holiday.
“We hope that visitors can feel the strong festival environment and the special charm of our cultural heritage,” said Tang Mao, a cultural heritage market organizer in the Jeffingi trading area. New Year’s photo drawing and making sugar figures.
Holiday purchases
For centuries, shopping has been an important part of the spring festival preparations: good food from food to new clothes and carefully selected gifts.
In Shanghai, Liu Fengmi, a woman from the 70s, traveled for more than an hour for the First Food Hall, a time -long honor shop located on Nanjing Road for traditional holidays, to store traditional holidays.
A long row is seen outside the store, which is full of festive decoration and traditional food, like the country at this time, like all over the country.
After the identity of UNESCO, Chinese consumers are also particularly interested in cultural festivals.
With the Ministry of Commerce, Lee Gang said that the month -long online shopping event for the festival launched by the ministry increased by 52.6 % and 26.6 % of the sales of jewelry and equipment characterized by nine Chinese -style jewelry and unavoidable cultural heritage featuring inadequate cultural heritage. Has happened
In recent years, the Spring Festival’s purchase lists include more imported goods, which reflect the increasing purchase power of Chinese people and the growing appetite for imported standard equipment.
Earlier this month, a cargo ship, which has 20,000 tonnes of Chile Cherry, arrived in Nanasha Port in Guangzhou, southern China, which offers a festival for millions of people from the spring festival. It was time for.
“Chile’s cherry, Australian lobster and Russian snow crabs … imported product prices are quite attractive, so I plan to prepare dinner on New Year’s Eve, which combines sugar and foreign flavors. “ Food China Freshpo in Beijing.
According to the ministry, government subsidies are driven by commercial programs, mobile phones, wearing equipment, and green and smart home appliances, according to the ministry, it is very much found even before the festival.
“Spending on New Year’s equipment can provide a glimpse of consumption elasticity and piercings throughout the year,” said Hong Tao, director of the Beijing Technology and Business University Institute of Business Economics.
