The Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival in China, is a centuries-old tradition. The age-old festival serves as a strong uniting force, and is also a time for celebrating traditional activities.In a country with 56 nationalities, people celebrate the Spring festival in many different ways. In a Miao village in Central China’s Hunan province, people there play drums to welcome in the Chinese Lunar New Year. Generally, there are two types of Miao drum performances. One is for celebrating the New Year, and the other for celebrating the deity. Miao people also express their emotions by performing drums on other important days. Miao drum dances have a narrative performing style, which is seen as a unique characteristic. Drum dancing displays the Miao people’s living and working scenes by the way of vivid dance movements.Source: english.cntv.cn

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Since the beginning of 2014 Spring,February 8, The World Natural Heritage Wulingyuan Scenic Area Ushered the first snowfall. Tianzishan, Yuanjiajie, Yangjiajie, Huangshizhai and the other attractions with existing rime ice hanging, clouds and other enduring beauty, Attracted domestic and overseas visitors alike, away. Currently scenic trunk road is unimpeded, and Travel order orderly.By Dragonholiday

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February 7, 2014, Ushered the first spring snow  in  Zhangjiajie Tianmenshan During Chinese Spring Festival. Snow were numerous, Not only Tianmenshan was dressed as a Sacred mountains, Also it is to add a thick auspicious for Chinese New Year.By shuire

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The 2014 International Lighting Festival was held at Meixi Lake International New Town on the evening of February 4. 50 lighting sets lit up at the same time, including “Expansion to the West”, a large-scale lighting set presenting the future of Meixi Lake, “Portrait of Eight Steeds”, a simulation lighting symbolizing success, “World’s Hottest Building” selected by American media CNN, and “Chinese Knot Pedestrian Bridge”, a miniature lighting of Meixi Lake. The festival will last until February 16 (the seventeenth day of the first lunar month). During the festival, the citizens and visitors will experience a new way to celebrate the Spring Festival by enjoying creative lightings and 3D buildings projection, visiting international temple fair for Spring Festival, as well as taking part in special activities for Valentine’s Day.Translator: Wang XiaoluSource: changsha.gov.cn

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BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Spring Festival holiday is offering a great chance for overseas students in Beijing to taste China's traditional culture.Greg McCarthy from the United States, a second-year international politics master with Beijing Language and Culture University, has just returned to the capital from the annual ice and snow festival in Harbin.He said in Chinese that the ice lanterns there were amazing. "I really admire the people who spent a long time in the freezing cold to make such exquisite works of art."With its outdoor temperature reaching minus 20 degrees Celsius, Harbin, the capital of northwest China's Heilongjiang Province, is one of China's coldest cities and the cradle of Chinese ice lanterns.More than 2,000 ice sculptures are on display this year in Harbin's Zhaolin Park, where visitors can also entertain themselves with skating and tasting traditional Chinese snacks such as sugar-coated haw.For the majority of the university's 300 foreign students who didn't make it to Harbin, an excursion to Longqing Gorge in Yanqing, a suburb of Beijing, also shed light on China's ice lantern culture.Invented by farmers and fishermen across the freezing Songnen Plain in northwest China, ice lanterns represent the spartan life of ancient Chinese. By chiseling out a hole in an ice block, Chinese hid oil lamps in ice cubes to shield the flame from the windy night.These days, the folk art has been developed into a lavish cultural event which attracts tens of millions of visitors to Harbin each year.On the Eve of Lunar New Year, Jan. 30, McCarthy hung out with his Chinese friends to wrap dumplings and set off firecrackers."Chinese New Year is very interesting. Christmas is the most important holiday in the United States. But it is only one day. Here, the Spring Festival is longer and we have a lot of fun," he said.At Beijing Jiaotong University, nearly 50 foreign students from more than 20 countries celebrated the Year of Horse with their teachers by not only having dumplings together, but also singing Peking opera.They also tried out Chinese calligraphy, using brushes to write Chinese couplets on red paper, a typical New Year decoration.Ghanem Osman from Syria and Humberto Brito Santana from Cuba both said they missed their families back home and wished for an early reunion while wrapping dumplings with their teachers.Surenjav Battulga and Oyunbat Nergui from Mongolia are both orphans and are studying at Jiaotong University on scholarships.They said their classmates were their "brothers and sisters" and that China was where they "built their dreams."Editor: yan Source: xinhuanet

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On the morning of January 30, nearly 1,000 visitors from home and abroad celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year in such natural sceneries of Wulingyuan as Tianzi Mountain, Yuanjiajie, Huangshi Village, Golden Whip Stream, Huanglong Cave, and Ten-mile Gallery.Domestic tourists mainly included self-driving travelers from Guangdong and many migrant workers returning Zhangjiajie from coastal areas. Overseas tourists were mainly from South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. Some of them were self-guided visitors from Europe and the US.Benefiting from free expressway toll during the Spring Festival and free admission tickets for self-driving travelers from Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guizhou, Wulingyuan is receiving this year’s first tourist peak in the golden week of Spring Festival. Tourism related functional departments and businesses in Wulingyuan have arranged enough personnel to ensure service level. Various folk cultural programs have been prepared to allow tourists to experience Zhangjiajie’s cultural charm while enjoying remarkable natural sceneries.Translator: Hao JingruSource: hunan.gov.cn

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The toll-free policy of expressways in Hunan for passenger cars begins from 0:00 of January 31 (the first day of the 2014 Chinese Lunar New Year) and lasts to 24:00 of February 6. From 0:00 to 6:00 on January 31, drivers don’t have to pick up a toll card at the entrance gate but need to hand it in at the exit gate. From 20:00 on February 6, drivers should pick up and hand over their pass cards as usual. At other times, drivers can enter or exit an expressway without having to pick up or hand over their cards.The policy only applies to passenger cars with seven or fewer seats as prescribed on their driving licenses issued by statutory machinery.Translator: Yang ChengfeiSource: hunan.gov.cn

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BEIJING, Jan. 30, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on late Jan. 30, 2014 shows hosts talking during the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, in Beijing, capital of China.Source: xinhuanet

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