Time album, our Spring Festival, go and pay a New Year call!
pay New Year calls
It is an important activity during the Spring Festival.
It is people who bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Etiquette forms of expressing good wishes to each other.
    During the Spring Festival in 1962, in a nursing home in Shenyang, children came to pay New Year greetings to the old people. Young and old get together and watch the wonderful programs performed by children. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Yu Zhao)
    On the first day of the first month of 1999, in a rural area in Shandong, children paid a New Year call to the elderly at home. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Wu Zengxiang)
People wear new clothes.
Pay New Year greetings to elders, relatives and friends and neighbors.
Let’s pray for a happy New Year, peace and prosperity.
    In Inner Mongolia, the hospitable Mongolian hostess entertained the guests who came to pay a New Year call. Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Sigu Lang photo (issued on January 14, 1982)
    In 2002, a little girl in Xicheng District of Beijing performed a piano solo for her relatives and friends who came to pay a New Year call as a small gift for them. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xue Dongmei photo
    On February 8, 2008, a villager in Gaopo Township, Huaxi District, Guiyang walked away from his relatives with a big Zanba on his back. It was the second day of the lunar new year, and people went out to visit relatives and friends in accordance with local customs. Miao people living in Gaopo Township use giant Ciba as a gift to visit relatives. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Wu Dongjun)
    On February 14, 2010, in Dazhanzhuang, Fogesi Town, Xincai County, Henan Province, villagers waited for firecrackers to set off and went to their neighbors’ homes to pay New Year greetings. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Hua photo
With the development of the times and the progress of society
Great changes have taken place in the way of New Year greetings.
Telephone New Year greetings and SMS New Year greetings
Flowers New Year, Video New Year
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    On the first day of the first month in 1997, in Lhasa, Tibet, people called their distant relatives and friends to pay a New Year call. Xinhua News Agency reporter Jue Guo photo
    On February 13th, 1999, Shanghai residents exchanged holiday greetings with their relatives in Hong Kong by videophone. Xinhua News Agency reporter Fan Junshe
    In the Spring Festival of 2003, a girl in Urumqi was choosing an e-card for her friend. Using "e-cards" and "short messages" to pay New Year greetings became the new fashion at that time. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yushe
    On February 10th, 2005, an old man in luxi county, Yunan Province, talked with his distant son by mobile phone. The old man looked very excited when he received his son’s mobile phone call to pay a New Year call for the first time. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Zongyou photo
    On January 28th, 2006, a citizen of Shangyu, Zhejiang Province was visiting the New Year "face to face" with relatives and friends from other places. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Han Jian)
    On February 11th, 2005, two girls bought flower baskets at the entrance of a flower shop in Huaibei, Anhui Province to prepare for the New Year. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Li Bin)
    On January 26, 2009, Yinchuan citizens bought flowers in a flower shop to celebrate the New Year. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Quanlong photo
What changes is the form.
What remains unchanged is inheritance.
No matter how the form of New Year greetings changes
Blessings from people’s hearts will never change
People can really experience it from the New Year greetings.
Affection, friendship and nostalgia
    On February 3, 1997, in a small farmhouse in Liangcun, Xi ‘an, jia county, Henan Province, the village farmers’ troupe was giving its first performance for the villagers during the Spring Festival to celebrate the New Year. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yushe
    On February 16, 2018, in Heyuan Scenic Area, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, children wearing "dog baby" cartoon costumes celebrated the New Year together. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Meng Delong)
    On February 11, 2024, in the home of a resident in Guanyintang Community, Xiyuan Street, Tengchong City, Yunnan Province, Ms. Nie, who returned to her family, combed her 90-year-old mother’s hair. On the second day of the first month, there is a traditional custom of "going back to your mother’s house" among the people in China. Married daughters bring their husbands back to their parents’ home to celebrate the New Year, and the whole family is happy, get together with the beautiful group and enjoy the wonderful "taste of the year". Xinhua News Agency (photo by Gong Zujin)
Go!
Happy new year!
    Production: Hao Jianwei