A symbol is chosen
More than 700 designers, cultural researchers, officials, overseas visitors and journalists gathered at the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday to witness the unveiling of the newly designated Spring Festival Symbol - a Chinese knot in the shape of the character chun, meaning spring, embedded with another character, fu, meaning blessing.
The design was selected from among 17,357 works submitted by designers domestically and abroad.
The effort, undertaken in January 2014 by several groups - China International Cultural Exchange Association, Association for Yan Huang Culture of China, Eastern China Cultural Heritage Protection Center and a collection of Chinese radio, film, television and newspaper media - encouraged designers to submit ideas for a Spring Festival symbol.
