Year of Reunion｜Wenrun New Year

Red lanterns, Chinese knots, the Chinese character "福", lively dragon and lion dance performances... As the Spring Festival approaches, Tianjin Ancient Culture Street is full of strong New Year flavor and full of New Year joy.

On the eve of the Spring Festival this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Tianjin Ancient Culture Street. The street buildings are antique and the folk performances are lively. The long cultural context infiltrates the character of this city and is also integrated into the texture of this city.

On Ancient Culture Street, a banner reading "Taste the Year of China" caught the attention of General Secretary Xi Jinping, who expressed ardent expectations for Tianjin: "Create a cultural brand with distinctive characteristics and profound connotations to further highlight Tianjin's new modern look. "

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always paid great attention to the inheritance and protection of local history and culture, as well as the important role of traditional culture and traditional skills in promoting local economic and social development during his visits and inspections on the eve of the Spring Festival.

Sauvignon Blanc, in Chang'an, the Qinling Mountains hold their heads high, and the waves are flowing.

On February 15, 2015, the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, General Secretary Xi Jinping appeared in the ancient city of Xi'an. At Xi'an Museum, he watched the changes in the capital of Xi'an, models of Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, exhibitions of bronzes and gold and silverware cultural relics of the Han and Tang Dynasties, representative sculptures of the Han and Tang Dynasties and tricolor cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, and listened to introductions to the ancient Silk Road and the history and culture of Chang'an.

"We must protect and manage the cultural relics that embody the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and at the same time strengthen research and utilization, let history speak, and let cultural relics speak." The general secretary's words are meaningful.

That night, the General Secretary climbed onto the Xi'an City Wall, listened to a briefing on the protection work of the Xi'an City Wall, and inspected the protection status of the city wall. Looking at the night view of the ancient city, the General Secretary sighed with emotion: "How beautiful! Xi'an people should be proud, confident and happy for this!" He stroked the wall tiles that carried historical memories, hoping that the most vivid Chinese stories would continue here. .

A city built for a thousand years carries the vicissitudes of history, engraved with the passage of time, and inherits cultural roots.

General Secretary Xi Jinping often says that "let the city retain memories and let people remember nostalgia."

Chong Baocai, a resident of Yuer Hutong in Dongcheng District, Beijing, was deeply touched by this sentence: "Now we have sunshine shining into our houses and into the hearts of the people."

The renovation and improvement of Yuer Hutong in Dongcheng District, Beijing was completed in mid-2019, making the hutong clean and bright.

In the first month of 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into No. 30 Yuer Hutong where Chong Baocai lived. At that time, Courtyard No. 30 was a typical large courtyard in Beijing. The courtyard was full of small bungalows with narrow corridors and no independent kitchens and bathrooms.

During this inspection, the General Secretary requested that the relationship between urban transformation and development and the protection and utilization of historical and cultural heritage be properly handled, so as to achieve development in protection and protection in development.

Today's Courtyard No. 30 is equipped with blue bricks, gray tiles, red doors, green lattice windows, and independent kitchens and bathrooms. It not only retains the traditional cultural characteristics of the old hutong, but is also beautiful and livable.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2019, I once again came to Dongcheng District, Beijing to inspect the "new life of old hutongs." General Secretary Xi Jinping once again emphasized that the renovation and upgrading of the old city should be unified with the protection of historical relics and the preservation of historical context, "let history and culture Integrate with modern life."

"Comprehensively protect historical and cultural heritage, coordinate tourism development, characteristic operations, and ancient city protection, and build a solid bottom line for cultural relic safety." He has visited the old streets of the ancient city many times during local grassroots inspections. The general secretary's original intention to protect historical and cultural heritage has always been consistent. .

"If you give it to me, I won't be able to wear it. You can buy a pair."

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping smiled and responded to the shop owner Lai Shufang in front of the "Tangchang Cloth Shoes" display stand in Tangchang Street, Pidu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.

Lai Shufang gets excited every time she recalls the scene at that time. "Tangchang cloth shoes" are intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province. Lai Shufang started learning shoemaking when she was more than 10 years old. Today, the Tangchang Cloth Shoe Shop, covering an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, can focus on the production, display, sales and experience of cloth shoes. It has attracted a large number of local villagers to come to the store to learn shoemaking skills, and has also attracted tourists from all over the country. Lai Shufang said that the sales of cloth shoes are getting better and better, and her life has become more promising. Her biggest wish now is to continue to pass on this craft.

Workers in Tangchang Cloth Shoe Factory are busy making cloth shoes. Photo by Wang Fan

On the same day, General Secretary Xi Jinping also visited the "Cha Xiangzi" tea making workshop. "Cha Xiangzi" tea-making workshop is also an intangible cultural heritage. The owner, Jiang Weiming, was invited by the Wenchuan County Government in 2012 to develop the intangible cultural heritage - the traditional hand-made skills of West Roadside Tea in Wenchuan.

General Secretary Xi Jinping was very happy to hear that the Wowo tea in the store was exported to countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, and hoped that they would keep improving, create famous brands, and make more contributions to the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the restoration of tea skills on the west side of the road, Jiang Weiming's "Cha Xiangzi" tea making shop has promoted the cultivation of tea in Wenchuan, adding more than 8 million yuan to the income of tea farmers in more than 10 years.

In Huawu Village, Miaozhai, Guizhou, the general secretary encouraged the villagers to inherit and develop traditional ethnic culture, including Miao embroidery.

In the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi, the General Secretary called for the protection of cultural treasures such as Tuiguang lacquerware, and the promotion of traditional cultural industries with national characteristics to the world.

Nowadays, the ingenious Miao embroidery girls embroider their own beautiful life stitch by stitch. Pingyao Ancient City has also built a lacquerware cultural industry that integrates production and sales, exhibition and collection, research and development training, business incubation, inheritance and experience. Demonstration garden.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China. It is a beautiful moment for families to reunite and share family relationships.

At the Spring Festival group gatherings over the years, General Secretary Xi Jinping always quoted famous lines from classical poetry to explain the traditional human relations and family ties of the Chinese nation and convey a beautiful vision for the new year.

"The thread is in the hands of a loving mother, and the clothes are on the body of a wanderer. There is a tight seam before leaving, and I am afraid that I will return late. Whoever speaks an inch of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring." At the 2015 Spring Festival group visit, General Secretary Xi Jinping borrowed the poem of Meng Jiao, a poet from the Tang Dynasty. The song "Wandering Son Yin" vividly expresses the deep family complex of the Chinese people and emphasizes that no matter how much the life pattern changes, we must pay attention to family construction, family, tutoring and family tradition.

At the 2017 Spring Festival group visit, the General Secretary conveyed the Chinese people's cherishment and attachment to family, friendship, love, and comradeship with the sentence "What touches people's hearts comes first," and reminded people not to be cut off by long distances. True love, don't forget the true love in the daily busyness, don't ignore the true love in the day and night struggle.

At the 2019 Spring Festival group visit, General Secretary Xi Jinping demonstrated China’s cultural tradition of filial piety and love for relatives by saying “filial piety to a husband is the foundation of virtue” and called on the whole society to vigorously promote respect for, care for, and support for the elderly.

In 2021, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping quoted at the Spring Festival group visit that "the Dapeng rises with the wind in one day and soars ninety thousand miles", showing that the Communist Party of China has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to achieve great success from the station over the past century. The great and glorious journey of getting up, getting rich and becoming strong.

2024 will usher in the Year of the Dragon. The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, symbolizing the Chinese nation’s spirit of self-improvement, struggle and enterprising spirit over the past five thousand years. Carrying forward the past and the present, General Secretary Xi Jinping hoped at the Spring Festival group visit that the people across the country would inspire the dragon and horse spirit, forge ahead with the energy of a dragon soaring, a tiger leaping over the dragon's gate, and a fish leaping over the dragon's gate, to pioneer, innovate, work hard and contribute, and jointly write a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization!

Proofreading | Meng Lizheng, Sun Jie, Yan Tian, ​​Lou Hao, Li Yingzhuo