10:54, 15-Feb-2018
Ushering in the Spring Festival: China celebrates holiday with various traditions
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It's the eve of the Spring Festival. Let's take a look at how people in China are celebrating the most important holiday of the year.
Beijing has set up a fair at the foot of the Great Wall. It will be held until the Lantern Festival, or the 15th day of the Lunar calendar. People are enjoying all kinds of snacks at this traditional Beijing temple fair. The dragon is also an important element in Spring Festival celebrations.
In Zhejiang Province's Zhuji city, people perform a dragon dance with a 200-meter long dragon made of 118 wooden benches every year. And people paraded through the town of Haocheng in Anhui Province on Tuesday with a lion dance, dragon dance, and all other kinds of traditional performances.