If you live in China, all you have to do is step onto the street to experience what chunyun, the rush of Chinese people on all forms of transportation to get home for Spring Festival, is all about. And while the holiday has already started this year, if you don’t live in the South,...
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Another Spring Festival is here. We here at ChinaGeeks want to wish you a happy year of the Tiger, and a fun (and safe!) holiday! If you want to know more about what this whole Spring Fesitval thing is about, check out our translation of the story of spring festival from last year! Again,...
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Is the Spring Festival tradition of making things explode more or less at random over the course of the festival really compatible with an increasingly urban China? Having heard reports of accidents and even deaths, we decided to investigate.
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Yes, happy year of the ox from everyone here at ChinaGeeks, i.e., pretty much just me. There isn’t much going on because of the holiday, and I seem to have acquired some kind of terrible sickness, so today I’ll just leave you with some links. World Leaders Send New Years Greetings to China (Shanghaiist)...
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Given that it’s right around the corner and not much else seems to be happening in the Middle Kingdom right now, this seems as good a time as any for a historical detour into the holiday’s origins. First, the origin myth of Spring Festival (translated and with illustrations from this Chinese site): Tradition has...
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