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New Year celebrations mirror changes in Chinese family life |
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Chinese traditionally stay home with all the four generations of the family to celebrate the LunarNew Year, but the stereotyped lifestyle is making way for diverse |
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Chinese President visits villagers in minority region during Spring Festival |
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During the Chinese Lunar New Year, President Hu Jintao came to Nahui Village in Guizhou Province, inhabited by people of the Buyi and Miao ethnic groups to send |
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Throughout Asia, Chinese celebrate New Year with temple visits, family feasts |
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A holiday calm fell over normally bustling cities Wednesday as ethnic Chinese communities across Asia celebrated the start of the lunar Year of the Rooster with visits |
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Farmers welcoming Spring Festival with bulging money bags |
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by Yang Xiaohong, Zhou Jianhong
Li Yunlai, a farmer in Xinhe Village of east China's Anhui Province, got up early Sunday morning to take a ride to |
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Govt spokespersons send New Year greetings to netizens |
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Twenty-eight spokespersons from 25 ministries and administrations under China's State Council have so far sent their festival greetings to netizens beginning on |
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Commissioner in Macao sends Chinese New Year greetings |
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Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry in China's Macao Special Administrative Region(SAR), Wan Yongxiang, on Monday sent out Chinese New Year greetings to Macao |
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China to celebrate clammy Lunar New Year |
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Most Chinese people will celebrate a cold and wet Spring Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year, according to the Chinese Central Meteorological Station Monday.
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SMS, phone calls: prime forms to extend good wishes at Spring Festival |
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Making phone calls and sending mobile phone text messages will be two prime forms for Chinese to express New Year's good wishes at the Spring Festival -- the |
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Premier's New Year address highlights building harmonious society |
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Chinese premier Wen Jiabao highlighted Monday the task of building a harmonious society in his address to a gathering in celebration of the Lunar New Year.
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State celebration for Spring Festival held in Beijing |
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China's leaders, including nine members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee, attended a |
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HK citizens urged to join city-wide cleaning for Lunar New Year |
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Hong Kong Director of Home Affairs Pamela Tan Sunday called on the public to join forces with the government in cleaning operation and maintaining environmental |
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Chinese embrace Spring Festival |
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BEIJING, Feb. 6 --Although there are still three days until the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, a festive air has already swept across China. People around the country are holding various |
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Official urges amply supply of foods, goods in Beijing during Spring Festival |
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Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi calls for guaranteeing amply supplies of food and goods in Beijing during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year.
Vice Premier Wu |
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CCTV ready for Spring Festival Gala |
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The long-awaited 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala will be watched by millions of people on Tuesday, the eve of the Lunar New Year. But, ahead of the big night, the performers |
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European tourism operators busy for China's Spring Festival |
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By Qian Chunxian
European tourism operators are busyin anticipation of the approaching China's Spring Festival, the first Chinese Lunar New Year |
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President Hu visits military camps before Spring Festival |
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Chinese President Hu Jintao visited two military camps of the airforce and armored force of the Beijing Military Area Command on Wednesday, just a week before the |
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Colleges urged to prepare New Year's Eve dinners for needy students on campus |
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Chinese universities and colleges have been required to prepare special New Year's Eve dinners for needy students who remain on campus during the Spring Festival |
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Millions enjoy festival show |
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A Peking opera actress sings at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala on Lunar New Year eve, Feb 8, 2005.
The five-hour show, put on each year since 1983, attracted millions of Chinese |
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Chinese celebrate New Year |
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The Year of the Rooster began Wednesday kicking off a week-long Spring Festival holiday, the most important in the Chinese calender.
As a tradition, many Chinese went to temples |
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Indonesian Chinese pray for New Year |
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Indonesian Chinese pray with joss sticks at Dharma Bhakti temple celebrating the Lunar New Year in Jakarta, Feb. 9, 2005.
A holiday calm fell over normally bustling cities |
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Lion dance for New Year |
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Chinese dancers perform the lion dance during a ceremony to start the traditional Spring Festival temple fair in front of the Altar of Earth in Beijing February 8, 2005.
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Chinese New Year in Bangkok |
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Young Thai girls dressed as Chinese Goddesses gather as part of New Year celebrations Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok has a large Chinese community and |
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Mermaids celebrate New Year |
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Two girls in mermaid costumes hold a banner which reads "Happy New Year" in Chinese at Blue Zoo Beijing, Feb. 7, 2005.
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Kung-fu monks usher in new year in HK |
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Hong Kong's Festival Walk, a fashion-oriented shopping mall in Kowloon, has invited Shaoling Kung-fu monks to show off their martial arts from February 4th to 6th to entertain Hong Kong |
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Festival lanterns |
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A Chinese woman looks at lantern decorations for the upcoming Spring Festival temple fair outside a park in Beijing, February 7, 2005.
Red decorations are customarily used by |
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Embracing Lunar New Year |
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A Chinese woman looks at lantern decorations
for the upcoming Spring Festival temple fair in Beijing February 7, 2005.
Red decorations are customarily used by the Chinese to |
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Chinese Australians celebrate New Year |
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Alex Lu, four years old, looks through his lion mask after performing a Dragon dance in Sydney, Australia, Feb. 3, 2005, during a launch of a two-week long Chinese new year's festival in |
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Kitchen God's Festival |
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Folks carry a portrait of the Kitchen God past a flock of onlookers as a part of the performances for the first Chinese Kitchen God's Festival in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Feb. 1.
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New Year shopping |
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Customers purchase festival foods in an open market in Lhasa, Tibet, Jan 29, 2005.
This year, the Tibetan New Year according to the Tibetan Calendar will fall on Feb 9.
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