The lunar New Year’s Day recovered
If you asked anyone when the New Year’s Day was, they used to answer it was the January 1 of the solar calendar.
Even in the calendar, it was an established fact to mark like that.
Here is the story of how the New Year’s Day was newly settled in the mind of the people as the lunar New Year’s Day, not the solar New Year’s Day.
It was January 29, Juche 78 (1989).
While Chairman
The officials couldn’t make an immediate answer. They considered it as a custom which had been disappeared and it had been a long time since they celebrated the lunar New Year’s Day.
The Chairman looked around the officials and after a while he said to them that it had been a traditional custom of Korean people to celebrate the lunar New Year’s Day from old times and even after the national liberation our people had used to celebrate the lunar New Year’s Day as a big holiday.
He said that the tradition of celebrating the lunar New Year’s Day seemed to be disappeared as European style came in after the national liberation. He continued that it was not bad to make people celebrate the lunar New Year’s Day and it was also one of the cultural and leisure activities.
He continued that if they didn’t celebrate the lunar New Year’s Day, the posterity wouldn’t know what the lunar New Year’s Day was and he gave an instruction to the relevant sectors to make a research on how they should celebrate the lunar New Year’s Day in the future.
Under the teachings of the Chairman, a benevolent step was taken to traditionalize the celebration of the lunar New Year’s Day. The lunar New Year’s Day was newly marked as New Year’s Day in the calendars and was celebrated again as a big and joyful traditional holiday.
This story shows the deep intention of the Chairman who considered the preservation of national character as an important matter along with the Juche character that promotes the independent spirit and consolidates the national dignity of our people.