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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.
For retirees looking to travel on a budget while enjoying the season’s beauty, knowing which destinations to skip this spring can be as important as finding the best places to visit.
This is “a significant step forward in further normalization of the US-China market in anticipation of the summer 2024 traffic season,” it said in the statement. The move marks the fifth time ...
The East Coast and much of the northern United States should expect average precipitation. The NOAA's "climatic normals" are based on weather conditions analyzed between 1991 and 2020, according ...
A year without Lichun is called 無春年 (no spring year). 無春年 is also known as 寡婦年 (widow year) in northern China or 盲年 (blind year) in southern China. Marriage is believed to be unlucky in a year without Lichun. [5] In the Republic of China, Lichun has been Farmer's Day since 1941. [6]
Spring (season) events in the United Arab Emirates (10 P) Spring (season) events in the United Kingdom (4 C) Spring (season) events in the United States (1 C, 7 P)
In addition to spring, ecological reckoning identifies an earlier separate prevernal (early or pre-spring) season between the hibernal (winter) and vernal (spring) seasons. This is a time when only the hardiest flowers like the crocus are in bloom, sometimes while there is still some snowcover on the ground. [17]
In Chinese, the festival is commonly known as the "Spring Festival" (traditional Chinese: 春節; simplified Chinese: 春节; pinyin: Chūnjié), [16] as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Chinese New Year. [17]