When will the free highway in the Spring Festival of 2023 start?
When will the free highway in the Spring Festival of 2023 start?
In 2023, Spring Festival travel rush Expressway started at 0:00 on June 65438+1on October 2 1 and ended at 24:00 on the 27th for 7 days.
Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as holding new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year pictures, having a reunion dinner, observing New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, offering sacrifices to ancestors, lighting firecrackers, burning fireworks, patting Chunsheng, making annual regulations, praying for blessings, visiting temple fairs, putting lanterns and wine on, and celebrating the New Year. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements, bearing rich and colorful festival cultural connotations.
Why do highways charge?
It is reported that by the end of 2020, the total highway mileage in China has reached 5 19.8 1 10,000 kilometers, of which the expressway mileage 16. 1 10,000 kilometers ranks first in the world; The coverage rate of expressways to cities with a population of more than 200,000 is over 98%. Such a huge scale provides great convenience for our daily travel. But we also need to know that the huge scale needs financial support.
China is a vast country. If the construction of this 1665438+ 10,000-kilometer expressway is all funded by the government, the funds will definitely be insufficient. Therefore, many strategic expressways in China are actually under construction with social funds, and some even have foreign capital. Due to the lack of funds, many expressways are built through financing and bank loans, so the loan interest alone is amazing, and the principal also needs to be repaid.
In addition, with the improvement of people's living standards, many families now buy cars. If freeways are free, more people will choose faster and more convenient freeways, which will inevitably lead to greater congestion of freeways. When the expressway charges, some people may choose other public transport, which not only reduces the pressure on the expressway, but also promotes the development of other public facilities.
Moreover, after the successful construction of a highway, the depreciation and maintenance costs required in the later period are not low. Everyone knows the importance of road safety, so after the road is repaired, the later depreciation and maintenance also need continuous investment, and the cost is not small. Why the highways we see can always be so smooth depends on regular maintenance. Especially in recent years, with the development of e-commerce in China, more and more goods are transported, and more and more large trucks need to be borne at high speed every day, which requires more funds for maintenance costs.
In this regard, it is not difficult for us to understand why highways in China are charged. Of course, it is not without free time. As far as China's expressways are concerned, the state has already given great preferential treatment. There is also a national free passage period for private cars every year. According to China's relevant regulations, major holidays are exempt from highway fees.
Introduction of Spring Festival
Spring Festival, the first day of the first lunar month in China, is also called "Lunar New Year" and "January Day". People in China usually call it "China New Year" and "New Year". It is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also the grandest, warmest and most celebrated festival in China. The arrival of the Spring Festival means that the winter when plants wither is coming to an end, and the spring when everything recovers is coming. In fact, the Spring Festival in the history of China does not mean the beginning of a year, but a festival in beginning of spring, especially beginning of spring in the 24 solar terms. The first year of the lunar calendar and the four seasons are basically synchronized, and the difference between beginning of spring and the first year of the lunar calendar is no more than a few days. People celebrate the New Year and welcome it at the same time.
Generally speaking, the Spring Festival refers to the first day of the year, but in the traditional folk sense, the Spring Festival starts from the La Worship on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the sacrificial stoves on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and ends on the 15th of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day as the climax. Drive away evil spirits and filth before the year, and welcome the new year and receive blessings after the year, such as offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, ancestors, removing old cloth and new ones, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a good year.