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Furthermore, the international influence of the Spring Festival is on a steady rise. A few decades ago, only a few foreign media outlets paid attention to this Chinese festival, and their coverage was just focused on typical Chinese elements such as the dragon and lion dance, dumplings and fireworks. However, Nowadays the Spring Festival has become a window for the foreign media to observe China. Greetings and best wishes from foreign leaders have become a "routine dish" in the Chinese New Year. The Spring Festival has even become a public holiday in certain countries. Many foreign businesspeople have also taken the festival as a good opportunity to promote sales. Overall, the influence and attractiveness of the Spring Festival is crossing cultural and geographical boundaries.
What matches the growing international influence of the Spring Festival is the increasing number of overseas Chinese, China's growing international status and comprehensive national strength, and the country's remarkable achievements in promoting exchanges between Chinese and other cultures. Like political, economic, and military progress, the increase in soft power is also an important window into China's present and future.
The Spring Festival has changed as times have changed and the country has progressed. By analyzing the changes concerning the festival, people may grasp a good opportunity for a harmonious fusion of tradition and modernity, gain an insight into the Chinese society way of living, and find effective ways of passing on valuable traditional culture, facilitating coordination between spiritual development and modernization, urbanization, and promoting cultural diversity and creativity.
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