308 million domestic tourism trips were made during the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday this year, up 23.1% year on year, and recovered to 88.6% in the same period of 2019, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Chinese New Year Festival
Chinese New Year holidays are public holidays in China starting in either January or February every year based on the Chinese lunar calendar and lasting for 7 days.
In 2021, the Chinese New Year lands on 12 February, Friday, and is a year of Ox.
Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, includes a Golden Week in China with a huge amount of travelers traveling domestically and overseas. It is one of the most important holidays in China.
The celebrations last up to 16 days, starting on Chinese New Year Eve though the public holidays are 7 days.
It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries with significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Mauritius, as well as many in North America and Europe.
In Chinese culture and East Asian countries, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival, marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the 24 solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of.
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Chinese New Year Traditions
Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding the New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner.
It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck.
Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include that of good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity.
Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
During the festival, people around China will prepare different gourmet for families and guests. Influenced by the flourished cultures, foods from different places look and taste totally different. Among them, the most well-known ones are dumplings from northern China and Tangyuan from southern China.
The biggest event of any Chinese New Year's Eve is the annual reunion dinner. Dishes consisting of special meats are served at the tables, as the main course for the dinner and offering for the New Year. This meal is comparable to Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. and remotely similar to Christmas dinner in other countries with a high percentage of Christians.
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