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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. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture , and has been added to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list by the United Nations Educational, Scientific ...
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It was an English mediaeval festival; both the Tuesday and the preceding Monday were the Hock-days. Together with Whitsuntide and the twelve days of Christmastide , the week following Easter marked the only vacations of the husbandman's year, during slack times in the cycle of the year when the villein ceased work on his lord's demesne , and ...
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.
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Spring is known as the "King of all Seasons", so the festival commences forty days in advance. It is generally winter -like in northern India , and more spring-like in central and western parts of India on Vasant Panchami, which gives credence to the idea that spring is actually in full bloom 40 days after the Vasant Panchami day.