As CNY comes to close, families make their return to the cities with the bounty of home town produce… anyway they can.
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Migration Nation: What does it look like when 1.3 Billion people go on Holiday?
The Spring Festival Travel Season, or Chunyun (春运), is well underway as people race home to chow down on dumplings and set the country ablaze with crackers and fireworks. Of course Spring Festival and Chinese New Year is much more than overeating and going deaf or possibly being blinded, but…
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Let the Migration Begin – Spring Festival and Chinese New Year 2014
It’s that time again, when a whole country goes from ON… to OFF. The Spring Festival Travel Season, or Chunyun (春运), which goes for 40 days is well underway having started Jan 16 and will finish Feb 24. Many people wont finish work until tomorrow leaving them little time to…
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My First Chinese New Year
The Spring Festival is a fifteen day celebration where most Chinese people have at least seven days holiday, and within the festival is the beginning of the Chinese New Year. It’s a very special time for Chinese. For my first year in China, my first Spring Festival began in Shenzhen…