The Year of Dog
Falling on the 29th of this year, Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important festival in China. Moreover, according to the Chinese almanac, today we usher in the year of the dog. | Spring Festival Traditions
This is a reading of the most famous poem to describe China's Spring Festival, as written some 1000 years ago by Song dynasty poet Wang Anshi. | Legend of Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the most important and biggest festival in China just as Christmas to people in the West. It is the first day of the lunar calendar and usually occurs somewhere between January 30 and February 20. | |
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New Year's Eve Dinner
On the night of New Year's Eve, Chinese families come together for a celebration dinner. This custom is also called "surrounding the hearth," from the custom in earlier times of eating dinner around the family hearth. | |
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Producer: Shen Min