Planting trees is a very meaningful thing. It is to do our part for the public welfare. So do you know when Arbor Day is every year? When is this year's Arbor Day? How did arbor day come about? This article will tell you about the time, origin and development of arbor day. Let's get to know.
Season and date of Arbor Day: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 (spring), the sixth day of February in the lunar calendar
History of Arbor Day
In May 1912, shortly after the establishment of the Nanjing Government of the Republic of China, where Sun Yat Sen was the interim president, the Ministry of agriculture and forestry was established, with a mountain forest department in charge of national forestry administrative affairs. In November 1914, the first forest law in modern Chinese history was promulgated.
In 1915, Ling daoyang, Han an, Pei Yili and other foresters were impressed by the national forestry depression and wrote to Zhou Ziqi, Minister of agriculture and Commerce of the Beiyang government, advocating that the annual Qingming Festival be the 'Chinese tree planting day'.
In July 1915, at the initiative of Sun Yat Sen, the then Beiyang government officially ordered to take the annual Qingming Day as the tree planting day. Designated sites and selected tree species. Governments, organs and schools at all levels throughout the country attended the Arbor Day ceremony and engaged in tree planting as scheduled. After being approved on July 21 of that year, the whole country was ordered to comply with it as scheduled. Since then, China has had arbor day.
On March 12, 1925, Dr. Sun Yat Sen died. In 1928, in order to commemorate the third anniversary of Sun Yat Sen's death, the national government held a tree planting ceremony. Later, in order to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the day of his death, that is, March 12, was designated as arbor day.
After the completion of the northern expedition in 1928, on April 7, the Kuomintang government ordered the whole country: "the Qingming tree planting day in the old calendar should be changed to the tree planting ceremony commemorating the death of the prime minister". On February 9, 1929, the Ministry of agriculture and mining promulgated Article 16 of the Provisional Regulations on tree planting in various provinces commemorating the death of the prime minister. Yi Peiji, Minister of agriculture and mining of the executive yuan of the national government, actively advocated afforestation in accordance with Dr. Sun Yat Sen's instructions. He submitted it to the Executive Yuan and the national government in February 1930. The week from March 9 to 15 was the "afforestation campaign Publicity Week", and a tree planting ceremony was held on the 12th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's death.
In the northern region, the cold has not disappeared in early March and is not suitable for planting trees. Therefore, it is specially stipulated that the tree planting type will still be held on March 12. In addition, the afforestation publicity campaign will be carried out on the Qingming Festival. The Ministry also published seven articles of the outline for the publicity week of afforestation campaigns in all provinces, special cities and counties, so that the whole country can follow suit.
In 1956, Mao Zedong issued the call of "greening the motherland" and "realizing the landscape of the earth". China has launched the "12-year greening campaign", with the goal of "basically eliminating wasteland and mountains within 12 years, and planting trees according to specifications and greening in all houses, villages, roads, water and wasteland and mountains, that is, in all possible places."
In 1979, at the proposal of Deng Xiaoping, the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress decided that March 12 of each year was China's tree planting day. In February 1979, according to the proposal of the State Council, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress officially adopted the resolution to designate March 12 as tree planting day every year.
On December 13, 1981, the fourth session of the Fifth National People's Congress discussed and adopted the resolution on launching the national voluntary tree planting campaign. This is the first major resolution made by the highest organ of state power on greening the motherland since the founding of the people's Republic of China. Since then, the national voluntary tree planting campaign has been implemented throughout the country as a law.
On tree planting day in 1982, Comrade Deng Xiaoping took the lead in setting an example and planted the first tree of the voluntary tree planting movement on Yuquan mountain in Beijing.
In September 1984, the general provisions of the revised forest law of the people's Republic of China adopted at the seventh meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress stipulates that 'afforestation and forest protection are the obligations of citizens', thus bringing afforestation into the scope of law.
On March 12, 1990, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of four stamps "greening the motherland", the first of which was "voluntary tree planting by the whole people".