Spring Festival Tree

Spring Festival in the New Millennium
Spring Festival has always been an occasion for reunions of family and friends for the Chinese. Its traditional significance did not fade away with the advent of the new century, but its features have undergone some delicate changes with the development of the economy and culture. People's celebrations have been characterized by a more distinctive modern flavor after 2000.
 
 

Outdoor Spring Festivals
People's way of life was changing day by day, and the consciousness of taking vacations also strengthened. Spring Festivals gradually became a good opportunity for holidays rather than only a traditional family reunion. People began to greatly improve their living standards and reflected this in their celebration of China's most important festival.
 
 

TV Spring Festival Parties
The TV Spring Festival party made its debut in 1983. Afterwards, it received 160,000 letters from the audience and since has had tremendous influence on Chinese people's Spring Festival customs. Tens of millions of families would have the family reunion dinner and then sit in front of the TV together and watch the live performances, jointly enjoying the time with the stars on TV. Scholars began to define it as a "New Folk Custom."
 
 

Traditions Came Back with Fashion
Change was the only thing that did not change in the 1970s, and it had a deep influence on people's Spring Festival celebrations.During the Spring Festivals, people began to again talk to their relatives who were once considered guilty; the costumes had changed from the standard green army uniforms to flares and suits and the model Peking Operas and revolutionary songs began to lose in appeal to the pop songs.
 
 

Spring Festival Collectivization
Despite the uptight economy, people in the 1960s were still happy enough to celebrate the Spring Festivals, thus spending some special and unforgettable new years. At a time when people could hardly afford to eat meat during the rest of the year, "Jiaozi" with ground meat on New Year's Eve was extraordinarily delicious.
 
 

New Life, New Year
When recollecting the Spring Festivals in the 1950s, not only does the festive joys and celebrations come to mind, but also a cluster of major political, military, economic and cultural events that brought forward even more happiness, reinforcing the Chinese people's desire to celebrate the happy new years.