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No greater gift during Chinese New Year than being with family

ReturninghomefortheSpringFestivalisnotonlyaphysicaljourney,butalsoamentalone.TheLunarNewYear,orSpringFestival,isthemostimportantholidayintheChineseculturalcalen

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The Spring Festival, mother of all festivals

Thisisthetimeoftheyearwhenone-fifthofhumanitycelebratetheSpringFestival,thebeginningofthenewyearaccordingtotheChineselunarcalendar.TheSpringFestival,orChunJiein

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2018 Spring Festival: What does it mean to Chinese?

The2018SpringFestivalfallsonFeb.16.HundredsofmillionsofChineseareheadinghomeinatravelrushthatemptiesthecitiesandsendsairportsintoafrenzy.ForChina,thefestivalisa

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Is the atmosphere of Chinese Spring Festival fading?

ByAPDWriterYangSiyaoTheChineseSpringFestivaliscomingsoon.TheSpringFestival,commonlyknownasChineseLunarNewYear,isthemostimportantfestivalforChinesepeople.TheChin

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Dinner of reunion and luck

Pick up a piece of chicken with chopsticks, dip it into a condiment made by combining minced ginger, diced shallot and soy sauce, then tear up the light-colored, nearly white skin and bite the tender meat.

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Stories behind Hong Kong's street names: Spring Garden Lane and its "big number brothels"

​The street was named by British settlers for its natural springs, but the Chinese name refers to spring the season. Long a red-light district, the street hosted a market for a time, but little of its past remains

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Spring Festival celebrations liven up local economy in Japan's Kobe Chinatown

​With over 30,000 visitors expected every day, celebration of Chinese Spring Festival has brought vitality to Nanjing town, the second largest Chinatown in Japan, as well as economic benefits to the region.

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Big data reveals Spring Festival travel rush patterns

Big data on travel patterns shows that while many people are leaving metropolises for family reunions during the Spring Festival travel rush this year, some will be traveling in the reverse direction for the same reason.

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Smoother, faster ride home for Spring Festival

​High-speed trains with comfort, Starbucks coffee onboard, free WIFI in stations, and phone apps for ticket purchase. As the Spring Festival travel rush kicked off on Sunday, hundreds of millions of Chinese found that their journeys for holiday homecomings have become much smoother and faster.

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Chinese police target train ticket scalping ahead of festival

​Chinese rail police have launched a campaign targeting train ticket scalping ahead of the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush.

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Spring Festival sees railway trips surge

A total of 94.79 million trips were made on trains between Jan. 16 and the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival, up 14.4 percent compared to the corresponding period last year, data from railway authorities showed on Friday.

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Nongfu spring VS Jinghua times

Six months after one of China's biggest bottled water producers, Nongfu Spring Company, filed documents to sue Beijing-based Jinghua Times for alleged "misreporting" of their water quality, the company has sent a deputy to Beijing to move the process forward.