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Join the Family

Updated: 2010-02-08 08:32
By Cong Fangjun (chinadaily.com.cn)

The Lunar New Year is the most important festival in China. No matter how far away they are from the family, most Chinese people will go back home to reunite with their families on the new year eve.

Home means a lot to the Chinese people. It is also a traditional virtue to spend the Spring Festival at home with your parents. Wherever they are, home is the only true destination for the Chinese during the Lunar New Year.

Those who have been working a whole year away from their hometowns look forward to going home and the happy moments with their families. With the development of China, more and more people leave their hometowns to seek better job opportunities. Thus the numerous passengers around the festival leads to a specific phenomenon in China, the "Spring Move". It is considered the biggest periodical migration in human history. Although it is really difficult to get tickets for flights, trains or coaches during the Spring Festival, people will do their best to try to get home.

Home is a peaceful harbor for everybody. Families are whom people miss the most while we are away from home. It does not matter if you are successful in a year's work or not, it's time to pack you stuff and go home. As sung in the song, "there's always dinner waiting for me on new year's eve at home. My family always loves me no matter I am rich or not".

Video:Cong Fangjun

Voice over:Huang Lan

 
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