Everyone knows that Arbor Day is March 12, but can you understand the origin of Arbor Day?
The former International Working Women's Day became the Queen's Day Goddess Day for harvesting leeks, and then there was a holiday to hide the sauerkraut report and not issued, as long as you pay money can become a national enterprise, in this era of entertainment to death, money only, what are the cultural traditions of inconspicuous tree planting?
Planting trees to commemorate the deceased is a cultural tradition of the Chinese nation. Since ancient times, civil society has had the custom of planting trees in front of and behind the front house, and planting camphor and cypress in temples, ancestral halls and courtyards, and pine and cypress in graveyards to show solemnity and commemoration.
Strictly speaking, Arbor Day is not an invention in China, but it is an Chinese innovation that links tree planting with commemoration of ancestors and gives Arbor Day a traditional humanistic meaning. Sun Yat-sen was the first to advocate afforestation, and in 1893, he put forward the idea of "promoting agriculture and learning urgently and stressing tree and livestock" in his "Book of Shangli Hongzhang" to strengthen the country. In 1920, in a speech in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen once again pointed out: "The fundamental way to prevent floods and droughts is to build forests, and to create large-scale forests throughout the country." After the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1925, many people proposed that afforestation should be vigorously promoted, and the day of Mr. Sun Yat-sen's death, that is, March 12, was designated as Arbor Day to commemorate it.
In this sense, Arbor Day is not only the embodiment of the continuation of Sun Yat-sen's political life, but also a symbol of the eternal survival of Sun Yat-sen's spirit.
What is the spirit of Arbor Day?
It should be said that changing the anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's death to Arbor Day and uniting it into one not only adds new content to the anniversary, but also enriches the cultural connotation of Arbor Day; It can not only promote the national afforestation campaign and beautify the natural environment, but also open up new fields for publicizing Sun Yat-sen through the practice of tree planting, mobilize public participation, and thus expand the social impact of the anniversary.
In February 1979, the Sixth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress formally adopted a resolution on designating March 12 as Arbor Day in accordance with the proposal of the State Council. The designation of the day of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death as Mainland Arbor Day is also to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen's great achievements and symbolize that Mr. Sun Yat-sen's unfulfilled last wish will be realized in New China.
Ten years of trees, a hundred years of tree people, not only ecology, but more importantly, remember, remember the spirit of ancestors!