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  2. Chinese New Year - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of observances set by the Chinese calendar - Wikipedia

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    The traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), which is also celebrated in overseas ethnic Chinese communities (for example in Malaysia, Thailand, or the USA).

  4. Qingming Festival - Wikipedia

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    The festival originated from the Cold Food or Hanshi Festival which is said to commemorate Jie Zitui, a nobleman of the state of Jin (modern Shanxi) during the Spring and Autumn period. [8] Amid the Li Ji Unrest , he followed his master Prince Chong'er in 655 BC to exile among the Di tribes and around China.

  5. Where is the lunar new year celebrated and who celebrates it?

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    The Lunar New Year is also known as the Spring Festival in China, as a nod to the upcoming spring season. In Vietnam, the holiday is known as Tet, and, in Korea, it's called Seollal. How to ...

  6. CMG New Year's Gala - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. Chunyun - Wikipedia

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    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. The travel season in China ...

  8. A 2025 guide to Lunar New Year as we slither into the Year of ...

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    Marking the first new moon of the lunar calendar, it falls on January 29 in 2025, kicking off the 15-day Spring Festival. Celebrations vary depending on the country or region, but there are a few ...

  9. Snow, ice disrupt trips home for millions of Chinese ahead of ...

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    BEIJING (Reuters) -Freezing rain, snow and ice have snarled traffic in central and eastern China as billions of people travel home ahead of the Spring Festival holiday in the blistering cold ...