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Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring , this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve (the evening preceding the first day of the year) to the Lantern ...
Spring Festival Eve: Observed by: China, Korea, ... Chinese New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year. ... 2013 February 9 Saturday 2014 January 30
The traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), which is also celebrated in overseas ethnic Chinese communities (for example in Malaysia, Thailand, or the USA).
From at least 2000 until this reform, the Spring Festival public holiday began on New Year's Day itself. From 2008 to 2013 it was shifted back by one day to begin on Chinese New Year's Eve . In 2014, New Year's Eve became a working day again, which provoked hostile discussion by netizens and academics.
An Indonesian Chinese family pray for their deceased members at Qingming Festival of 2013 under the Heaven Gate of Sanggar Agung Qingming at the cemetery by Kolkata Chinese. Qingming Festival is when Chinese people traditionally visit ancestral tombs to sweep them. [8]
The CMG New Year's Gala, formerly known as the CCTV New Year's Gala, also known as the Spring Festival Gala, and commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Chunwan (Chinese: 春晚; lit. 'spring evening'), is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Media Group (CMG).
Scene of the 2009 Chunyun period inside Beijing West railway station, China. Chunyun (traditional Chinese: 春運; simplified Chinese: 春运; pinyin: Chūnyùn; literally translated as “Spring transportation”), also referred to as the Spring Festival travel rush or the Chunyun period, is a period of travel in China with extremely high traffic load around the time of the Chinese New Year.
Spring Festival may refer to: Chinese New Year, as it is referred to in China; Holi, a spring festival in India; Kakava, a spring festival of the Romani people in Turkey; Nowruz, an Iranian festival that occurs on the first day of spring; Tết, a festival in Vietnam; Spring Day, a holiday observed in several countries; The Spring Festival, a ...