rural Carnival activities at Spring festival
By staff reporter ZHANG LI 【期刊名称】今日中国：英文版 【年(卷),期】2016(000)002 【总页数】4
【关键词】中国;经济增长;国民收入;对外开放;经济合作
C HINA’S Spring Festival – a celebration of the lunar New Year – starts on the 23rd day of the 12th month of the agricultural calendar and finishes on the 15th day of the first month. Lunar New Year’s Eve and the first day of the New Year are its climax. China’s grandest and most important holiday, Spring Festival has for millennia been celebrated in diverse ways throughout the country.
Among the various stories about the origins of the Spring Festival the one most commonly accepted tells of how Emperor Shun, legendary leader of ancient China, inaugurated it more than 4,000 years ago on the day he succeeded to the throne and made obeisance to heaven and earth. People have since perceived that occasion as the first day of the New Year, and as how the Chinese lunar New Year came into being. China’s grandest and most important holiday, Spring Festival has for millennia been celebrated in diverse ways throughout the country. Winter is the slack season in China, historically an agricultural country. Having labored for a whole year, people take a rest at this time to
Rural Carnival Activities at Spring Festival
