Album of Memory: Extending New Year's Greetings-Xinhua
Album of Memory: Extending New Year's Greetings
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2024-02-11 22:32:18
BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) --The Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, is China's most important festival. It is also an occasion for people to engage in "bainian", meaning paying visit to relatives and friends and offering auspicious wishes and greetings.
Children of the Mongolian ethnic group have food during the Spring Festival in 1982. According to the Mongolian customs, children greet each other at the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, and parents warmly treat them with rich food.Performers holding dragon lanterns greet villagers from house to house during the Spring Festival holiday in Yanggang Village in the suburb of Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, in 1992.Droma (1st L) of the Tibetan ethnic group greets her neighbors of the Han ethnic group on Jan. 24, 2001, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
With the development of the society, the way of extending Chinese New Year's greetings also changes from paying face-to-face visit to making phone calls, delivering text messages, sending flowers and making video calls.
A girl shows a text message of Spring Festival greetings sent by her friend displayed on a mobile phone in Beijing, capital of China, in 2003.Staff members of a flower shop prepare flowers for the upcoming Spring Festival in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 5, 2005.A citizen makes a video call to her relative to extend Chinese New Year's greetings in east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 28, 2006.An elderly of the Tujia ethnic group speaks with her son and her daughter-in-law via video link at an Internet bar in Yuanling County of Huaihua City in central China's Hunan Province, Jan. 31, 2006.
The changing of "bainian" customs is a strong display of leap-forward development of China. However, things that never change are people's deep love, best wishes, and feelings of missing beloved hidden behind words and traditions.
Tourists write down wishes for the Chinese New Year on cards at the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower in east China's Shanghai, Feb. 9, 2005.■
