On New Year’s Day, a new year’s greeting will last for thousands of years.

It is a traditional folk custom in China to greet the New Year during the Spring Festival. It is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their good wishes to each other. This traditional custom, which has lasted for thousands of years, is still an indispensable event on the first day of the Lunar New Year. It is called "New Year’s greetings" that "the elders and the young worship their relatives, and those who are close to each other congratulate each other". In ancient times, it was generally that the younger generation knelt down, kowtowed or bowed to their elders to pay New Year greetings, and then paid New Year greetings to their elders, relatives and neighbors in the village. On the way, when New Year greeting people meet, they all exchange greetings and say auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich" and "All the best".

At the dawn of the first day of the first month, the whole family got up early, put on new clothes, and every household set off firecrackers, scrambling to "open the door". Then open the door and choose the direction of "Italy", and take a hundred steps to meet "XiShen", which is called "travel". After welcoming XiShen, the whole family gathered for dinner. After breakfast, I began to pay New Year greetings in the traditional way, but now I don’t have to kowtow and bow down.

Nowadays, the use of smart phones has gradually been given a new form of network New Year greetings by the Internet age, including various New Year greetings pictures, New Year greetings emoticons and New Year greetings to electronic red-envelope. Some expression packs are still animated after they are opened, with firecrackers and music sounds, just like a micro-movie. Before the Spring Festival in 2019, New Year’s greeting expression packs and New Year’s greeting languages appeared on the Internet, such as: Wangquan has returned to send money, and the golden pig is also coming; New year, new scenery, new atmosphere, new spring besides old cloth, and so on. Although these messages lack their own personality and thoughts, they are full of love and blessings, which is an important reason why netizens are willing to accept and forward them.

With the increasing material wealth and the continuous improvement of people’s income level, many people feel that the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker. Because of the material abundance in daily life, the desire to have a "big meal" in childhood has become history. As long as your stomach can stand it, you can eat "New Year’s Eve" almost every day. Because of the development of internet, science and technology, media and performing arts, people can enjoy all kinds of cultural and entertainment feasts as they please 365 days a year, so there is no need to wait for the Spring Festival Gala only once a year. Because of the rapid development of communication and transportation, "one message from home is worth a ton of gold" has long been a thing of the past. Now, who can write a letter and go anywhere you want? It is easy for relatives to meet, and even if they don’t meet, they can chat by video.??

"After a busy year, the family has a big New Year’s Eve dinner together and keeps the old age together, enjoying the happiness of family and the beauty of life." At the Spring Festival group meeting in 2019, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader talked about "New Year’s Eve" and "Keeping the Year" in a homely way, and further pointed out that "filial piety at home and loyalty to the country are the fine traditions of the Chinese nation".Paying New Year’s greetings is a traditional folk custom in China. Blessing the elders is the promotion of the filial piety culture of the Chinese nation; Thanks to relatives and friends, it is the admiration of knowing how to report German culture; Greetings to neighbors are the inheritance of Chinese civilization and etiquette culture … New Year greetings show simple but sincere emotional communication and exchange of ideas between people.

Although everyone feels that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker now, the Spring Festival still affects the hearts of hundreds of millions of Chinese; Although the telephone and the Internet have narrowed the distance between time and space, Spring Festival travel rush is still "unstoppable by human beings". Some people cross half of China just to have dinner with their families; Although new clothes can be taken off the hanger at any time, the brand-new look during the Chinese New Year still has a different meaning. This festival embodies family ties and nostalgia. No matter what way it is taken, its purpose and nature will never change. This is the beautiful yearning and prayer for the new year. The traditional flavor of the year is fading away, but what changes is its external form, and what remains unchanged is its internal essence. No matter globalization, informationization or modernization, we can’t lose the soul of traditional culture.