China celebrates the Spring Festival with thousand-year-old traditions, as well as new trends. Sending digital red envelopes, having family reunion dinners outside, and traveling with the family have become popular ways to celebrate the Spring Festival. The numbers below show how people spend the holiday. 

Total retail sales and catering in China reached a new high of 1.01 trillion yuan ($150 trillion) during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, an increase of 8.5 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Commerce.

Around 415 million domestic trips were made during the holiday, according to the China Tourism Academy. Top destinations include Sanya, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Hangzhou. 

Border inspection agencies in China saw more than 12.5 million entries and exits were made, an increase of nearly 11 percent from last year, according to the National Immigration Administration.

The number of digital red envelopes sent and received on WeChat during the holiday reached 823 million, an increase of 7.12 percent from last year, the Economic Information Daily reported. Meanwhile, 450 million people participated in Alipay’s game to collect "five blessings" for cash, according to Ant Financial, Alibaba’s finance arm. From January 25 to February 4, Alipay customers used their phones to scan the Chinese character “blessing.” All the lucky people who collected all five different types of “blessing” could share 200 million yuan in prize money.

Total transactions through China UnionPay, the country's sole bank card network operator, soared 71.4 percent from last year's Chinese Lunar New Year holiday to 1.16 trillion yuan between Feb. 4 and 10, the Shanghai-based agency said.

China's box office broke its single-day record on the first day of the Year of the Pig at 1.44 billion yuan, according to the State Film Administration. The week-long holiday saw total box office receipts of 5.84 trillion yuan.