Blog Tag - Spring Festival

Mandarin Monday: Mastering Your Chinese New Year Greetings and Well-Wishes
Do you hear that? It's the sound of Chinese New Year knocking at the door, which means it's time to dust off your well-wishes and polite phrases...
Lego Invades Sanlitun Taikooli for Chinese New Year
Life-sized Legos have landed in Sanlitun, with current and past Spring Festival sets popping up all over Taikooli South to ring in the Year of the...
Solar Terms 101: Kiss Goodbye to The Ice And Take a Bite of The Spring
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 节气 jiéqì solar terms based on seasonal changes and natural phenomenon. They play an...
These Places Are Open (or Closed) for the CNY Holiday
If you’re planning to stay in Beijing over the holiday, you’re probably wondering what places for grabbing a drink or a bite are open or closed for...
Solar Terms 101: Light Up Winter With Fiery Red Decorations For Your Home
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 节气 jiéqì solar terms based on seasonal changes and natural phenomenon. They play an...
A Handful of Cultural Activities to Keep You Busy Over the CNY Holiday
Seeing as Spring Festival is the biggest traditional Chinese festival of the year, it’s a prime time to get cultured on the holiday – and China in...
Six Super Fun CNY Camps To Keep the Kids Busy
It’s that time of year again, and if you are like most of us parents and need some help getting through all the challenging aspects of winter break,...
CNY Chef: Grilled Miso Wagyu Ribeye from Chef Hunter Ren of Beyond Yakitori
You be the cook this Spring Festival with CNY Chef! Follow a new recipe each day of the holiday courtesy of one of the capital's top chefs. I don’t...
CNY Chef: One Michelin Star Kung Pao Chicken from The Opposite House's Jing Yaa Tang
You be the cook this Spring Festival with CNY Chef! Follow a new recipe every day of the holiday courtesy of one of the capital's top chefs. My...
Local Gem: A Plate of Dumplings in the Hands, a Peaceful Year Ahead
Local Gem is an exploration of Beijing’s diverse palate. Get out of your comfort zone and try something new! To share your own neighborhood pride,...
So Ayi Wants to Stay for CNY. Now What?
Ah, the Chinese New Year holiday… The week where business in China seems to come to a halt and the annual homeward bound migration takes place all...
Next Spring Festival Holiday Could Be Extended to Ten Days
Perhaps it’s fitting that on Women’s Day, one national representative, a woman from Anhui Province, earned herself the national spotlight for...
Honoring the Cherished and Ancient Tradition of Analyzing Post-CNY Statistics
Now that the haze of gunpowder and fireworks have cleared from the sky, red packet scraps have been swept off the streets, and the warring states of...
Fireworks Were Banned, So What Was With The CNY Smog?
Before fireworks were restricted to outside the Fifth Ring Road, an opaque haze falling on the capital over the Spring Festival holiday was an...
Chinese Superstitions 101: Why Do People Wear Red Underwear in the New Year?
If you think the reason people in China wear red underwear is to find love like people in Mexico and other Latin American countries do, you are wrong...