Spring Festival 2019

Chinese New Year celebration featured all over the world

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  Overseas Chinese keep Spring Festival Eve dinner tradition

  A Chinese family in Madison, Wisconsin prepares a dinner for their neighbors on February 4, 2019. Spring Festival Eve dinner, also known as the Family Reunion dinner, is one of the most important dinners for Chinese families.

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  Beijing ushers in first snow this winter

  Today is the second day of the new year, Beijingushered its first snow in this winter, celebrating the Chinese New Year with the people.A crowd waits for a performance on Wednesday at the Fangzetan in Beijing’s Ditan Park.（Photo: VCG）At around 9:00 am, Beijing Yanqing, Huairou, Haidian, Chaoyang, Tongzhou, Shunyi, and Changping successively appeared snow. Among them, Yanqing and Huairou’s snowfall

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  UK Foreign Secretary sends warm New Year greetings to Chinese people

  UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office released video of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's speech in London Chinatown, welcomes the Chinese New Year of the pig.In the video, Hunt made a brief introduction and sent greetings in Chinese.Hunt expressed his gratitude to China for its old and important culture, great inventions and creative, hard-working and dynamic people.'Happy New Year to all those

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  Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations around the world

  Tuesday marks the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Festive celebrations to ring in the Year of the Pig took place worldwide. Here's a look at how people marked the occasion! (Photos: VCG)Members of the Chinese community celebrated the Spring Festival in London’s Chinatown with dragon toys and red lanterns. Indonesians of Chinese descent burned incense for good fortune to mark the Lunar New Year at a Chinese temple in the capital Jakarta at midnight on Monday. Lion dance performances were held in Manila on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Chinese dragon artists performed outside a bank in Melbourne, Australia. Roasted pigs were on sale at a street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia ahead of the Year of the Pig.

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  Spring Festival Eve dinner cuisine varies across China (I)

  Spring Festival dinner of a family in Beijing. Here are the photos of Spring Festival Eve dinner taken on February 4, 2019 that we have selected from readers across China.

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  Fantastic views of the Spring Festival Gala 2019

  China's annual Spring Festival Gala was held on January 4, 2019. The gala, also known as Chunwan, has taken place every year since 1983, and is now a cultural symbol of the Spring Festival. (Photos: VCG)The four hour gala included singing, dancing, crosstalk, sketches and a magic show, and is considered the world's most-watched television program.“The Soul of Shaolin”, a martial arts show brought by Henan Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School, appeared later in the show.Actors stand in a formation that creates the character “Shaolin”, along with other blessing characters.Apart from the main venue in Beijing, this year's gala will be staged simultaneously in three other sub-venues located in Jinggangshan of Jiangxi Province, Changchun of Jilin Province, and Shenzhen of Guangdong Province. This photo shows the sub-venue in Jinggangshan. This photo shows the sub-venue in Jinggangshan. This gala provides a creative and excellent extravaganza for Chinese audiences both at home and abroad. (Compiled by Wang Zi, with input from CGTN)

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  The Mauritian capital hosts a Spring Festival parade

  On February 3at 5:30 pm at the gate of the city hall in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, there were crowds, drums and music, red lanterns, lion dance, dragon dance, paper umbrellas, banners and other traditional Chinese elements bringing out a strong atmosphere for the ChineseSpring Festival.Accordingly, Mauritius is the only country in Africa that recognizes the Spring Festival

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  Infographics: Reverse Spring Festival travel a new trend

  The Spring Festival is China's most important traditional holiday, largely a time for families to get together.The Spring Festival holiday is also regarded as "golden week" in China, which saw about 6 million outbound tourists during the 2018 public holiday.Nearly 7 million Chinese people are expected to travel to about 90 countries and regions during the 2019 Spring Festival public

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  What does the word 'blessing' mean to you?

  A blessing is the best wishFor a brand new startWith the aspirations of an entire family.A blessing is the most affectionate wishFor loveIn the circle of life.A blessing is the happiness felt at a family reunionRegardless of how far one is away from their home.A blessing is the satisfaction felt by all travelersWith quiet and persistent devotion.A blessing is the