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The origin of the Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival

The Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival is the first festival specially set up for farmers at the national level. It was established in 2018. The festival time is "autumnal equinox" each year. The establishment of a Chinese farmer's harvest festival will greatly mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of hundreds of millions of farmers, and enhance the sense of honor, happiness, and gain of hundreds of millions of farmers. Holding the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival can show the great achievements of rural reform and development, and at the same time, it also shows the tradition of China's peasant as the foundation since ancient times.

With the approval of the Party Central Committee and the approved by the State Council, since 2018, it will set up each autumn equinox day as a harvest festival for Chinese farmers. The establishment of this festival fully reflects the high attention of the Party Central Committee for the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and rural areas, and the deep care of the majority of farmers is a historic event, and it is a good thing that contains people's feelings.

Why do Chinese farmers choose autumn equinox on this day?

The reason why Chinese farmers chose to be on the autumnal equinox day is that before and after the autumnal equinox, the northern south and south of the country entered the seasons of the agricultural harvest, showing a joyful scene of fruits and grains. The Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival belongs to the festivals of hundreds of millions of farmers. Choosing to be held on the autumn equinox day, which can express the meaning of celebrating the grains and feeling happiness.

At the same time, the autumn equinox is not only the end of the autumn harvest and winter collection, but also the starting point of spring farming. There is a saying in China that says "three autumn", which refers to autumn harvest, autumn plowing, and autumn species. This means that in addition to harvesting in autumn, it is still the day of farming. In North China, farmers are busy sowing winter wheat; in the Yangtze River Basin, after the farmers harvest late rice, they must be busy to farming the land and prepare for planting rapeseed. Busy field management ...

The significance of the establishment of the Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival

The establishment of the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival not only has contemporary significance, but its cultural heritage is even stronger. On the one hand, for the ancient China with thousands of years of agricultural civilization, the establishment of this festival has a sense of ritual: spring planting and autumn harvest, spring Chinese and autumn, one year of hard work, the fruitful results of the golden autumn, the best reflection of the harvest joy. At the same time, contemporary people accurately grasp the laws of time, and use modern thinking to embellish a good performance of traditional civilization. The annual lunar autumn equinox is set up into a harvest festival of Chinese farmers. To a certain extent, it is just an opportunity and nature for traditional culture to integrate modern life.

From the national level, the establishment of this festival fully reflects the high attention of the Party Central Committee for the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and rural areas". The deep care of the majority of farmers is a historic event. Essence First, it is conducive to further highlighting the important position of "agriculture, rural areas, and rural areas." The second is to increase the sense of honor, happiness, and gain of hundreds of millions of farmers. Third, it is conducive to inheriting and promoting Chinese farming civilization and excellent cultural traditions.

From the historical and humanistic level, the harvest festival of Chinese farmers is not a general festival. It is not only a festival to celebrate the harvest and enjoy the harvest of hundreds of millions of farmers. Establishing a festival of joint participation and celebrating harvest in the whole nation will help better inherit and display the outstanding farming culture of China, condense the advanced culture of a new era of attaching importance to agriculture, respecting farmers, and celebrating harvests.

From the perspective of rural development, first of all, it can stimulate the majority of farmers to participate in rural revitalization. Farmers are the main body of the development of agriculture and rural areas, and the main body of the implementation of rural revitalization strategies. The Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival is a big drum to peasants, which can stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of farmers. Second, it can create a good atmosphere of implementing the strategy of rural rejuvenation. The rural revitalization will provide a thick economic and social foundation for the Chinese farmers' harvest festival, and the harvest festival will create a strong atmosphere for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Third, it can meet the needs of farmers' good life. The Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival itself is beautiful. Handling this section is also a manifestation of a good life of farmers. Through this carrier, the labor results of the majority of farmers are displayed, providing farmers with more public cultural services, richer spiritual and cultural life, and more diversified cultural products, which can make the whole society feel that agriculture is an industry in the industry. , Farmers are attractive occupations, and rural areas are beautiful homes in Anju and Lohs.

(Reporter Niu Panpan sorted out)

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