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What does the Spring

By our staff correspondents □ 本刊综合

Among all festivals, the Spring Festival the Chinese people in celebration of traditional dishes starting from the twelfth lunar month.
holds the highest significance; likewise, spring new year” on UNESCO’s Representative List The celebration activities, which focus on bid-
stands out as the most important of the four of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity ding farewell to winter and welcoming spring,
seasons. The Spring Festival is China’s most has further heightened people’s anticipation for saying goodbye to the old and embracing the
grand, historically rich, widely celebrated, this festive occasion. new, praying for good fortune and prosperity,
and influential traditional festival. Marking the The Spring Festival falls on the first day and fostering family reunion and harmony, are
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beginning of the year, the Chinese New Year of the first lunar month. In preparation for the particularly vibrant from the 23 day of the
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boasts a history of over 3,000 years. The in- festivities, people begin cleaning their homes, twelfth lunar month to the 15 day of the first
clusion of “Spring festival, social practices of purchasing festive items, and cooking delicious lunar month. This period is commonly referred