(ECNS) -- What does the Spring Festival mean? In the eyes of Richard Trappl, an Austrian sinologist and former director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, the Spring Festival means no matter how far apart people are, they will embark on the journey back home. He said that we live in an era of cultural diversity and that Spring Festival enables people from different cultural backgrounds to understand each other. It reminds us that we should pay more attention to families and friends. (Zhang Dongfang)