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Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

  Editor's note:

The Spring Festival is the largest and most important festival in China. It is the first day of the lunar calendar and usually occurs somewhere between January 30 and February 20, heralding the beginning of spring, thus it is known as Spring Festival.

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return 

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Celebrations home and abroad

 Spring Festival: timeless traditions return Shenzhen: Spring Festival flower fair opens

 Spring Festival: timeless traditions return Taipei: Crowds pack historic Taipei New Year market

 Spring Festival: timeless traditions return Washington DC: Bao Bao's debut kicks off New Year festivities

 Spring Festival: timeless traditions return Laos: Yunnan brings Lunar New Year show to Laos

 Spring Festival: timeless traditions return Sydney: Sydney offers largest New Year celebrations outside China

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

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Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Chen Longyong shows his paper cutting work on December 29, 2013. Chen, who is in his 70's from Jiangsu province, has been making paper cuts for over 40 years. More

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Jun porcelain is famous for its changing colors during the kiln process. The town of Shenhou in Yuzhou is known as the "Capital of Jun porcelain". More 

Spring Festival is fast approaching! In honor of the traditional holiday, Qu Junmeng, a young artist from Qingdao, makes clay sculptures of holiday settings. More

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
 

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

More than 40 well-known horse paintings from the ancient Tang Dynasty to modern times by Chinese art masters are on display, among which 17 of the paintings are on display. More

In the past decade, fewer people chose to write the couplets themselves. In recent years, however, Spring Festival calligraphy has regained. More

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return

The National Art Museum of China's first celebration of the upcoming Lunar New Year presents more than 200 selected works from a national fine art exhibition. More

Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Ciba 
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Jiaozi 
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Steamed bun 
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Peking roast duck 
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Hakka food 
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return
Fruits dishes 
Spring Festival: timeless traditions return