Shenzhen teacher and daughter’s trip home through 6 provinces for Spring Festival
Spring Festival is always a strenuous time for Chinese people returning home caught in the the travel rush.…
Spring Festival fireworks celebrations should continue
Lantern Festival 2011 was the day I arrived in China for the first time. I was dazzled that…
Chinese God of Wealth vs. Western Valentine of Love
The following is a guest post by Philip via MarketingToChina.com, edited by Key. Today is February 14, Valentine’s…
Survey says Beijing husbands are whipped, wife mother-in-law relationship worst in Shanghai
From Sohu: Chinese New Year has passed. But many people are still immersed in the festive atmosphere. However…
Beijing’s air pollution level heightened by Spring Festival fireworks
From Netease: [picture form QQ] The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau released post-Chinese New Year PM10 and PM2.5 air…
Renting a girlfriend to celebrate Spring Festival in China becoming popular
“Don’t talk about relationship, it’s just a deal.” That is not only a dialogue in the new released…
What is inside Spring Festival passengers’ bags?
From our last post about going home for the Spring Festival, it seems that a lot of our…
Exactly how difficult it is to go home for the Spring Festival?
Something big happened on Jan 8th. It is the start of the largest scaled as well as…
Online booking makes going home even harder, a migrant worker’s complaint
Speaking of Spring Festival, family reunion, friends gathering, firework, fire-crackers, lucky money, big feast, brand new clothes, new…
1.96 million couples were divorced in China last year
From Netease: Every year when the long Spring Festival break is over, many people also turn the last…
Afraid to go home for the New Year
Chunyun, (春运; Chūnyùn), also referred to as Spring Festival travel season, or Chunyun period, is a period of…
When low-rent housing becomes civil servant’s year-end bonus
From LWGCW: When (春运 Chunyun) the mass passenger transportation is occurring around the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year),…
Snapshots of Shanghai
Hello everyone, as the Lantern Festival also called Yuanxiao Festival on the 15th lunar day of the first…
550,000 people squeezed into temple to burn incense on Cai Shen Ye’s birthday
From Netease: Today is lunar Jan. 5th (Feb. 18), the birthday of Cai Shen Ye (财神爷), Chinese god…