The number of digital “red envelopes” with gift money sent and received via the WeChat messaging platform reached 8.08 billion on Jan. 7, the lunar new year eve, which is eight times that of last year.
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There’s a special legend about the lunar new year – here’s our animation of the story about a horrific monster known as the Nian. See it in the horizontal format:
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The Chinese Spring Festival is typically celebrated a few weeks after the Christmas holidays, but these major holidays in both countries share some similarities.
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Chinese tourists visit California more than any other state in the U.S. Many of them make a stop at Universal Studios Hollywood. It’s all the more reason for the theme park to celebrate Lunar New Year.
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The start of the Lunar New Year is just a weekend away. And the world’s largest human migration, “Chunyun”, is happening in China.
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Shared meals are a huge part of Chinese Spring Festival. But you don’t want to spend all your time in the kitchen when there is socializing to be done with family and friends. Victoria Li shows you five easy dishes that are delicious and quick […]
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What these kids have to say about Chinese New Year will crack you up.
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New Yorkers aren’t missing out on Chinese New year. The city now has its first Baijiu bar. Baiju is a strong Chinese distilled spirit made from grains, and it’s making quite an impression in New York City.
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The Spring Festival is the year’s most important event in China, but people from the north and south celebrate with different traditions.
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The Year of the Monkey requires some explanation. Here is our primate primer.
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We asked three bartenders to craft us specialty cocktails based on the themes of Chinese New Year and Spring Festival. Trust us, these are good.
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It is Spring Festival time in China. Also know as Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year. Click here to learn about the holiday and customs that are celebrated world-wide.
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A couplet refers to two complementary poetic lines adhering to certain rules. They are often used to decorate doors and walls during Spring Festival to help express hope and happiness for the coming year.
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Chinese New Year is upon us, and on the even of February 7, local time in Beijing, parties for this massive celebration will begin. This is The Year of the Monkey according to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, and if this is your Zodiac year, you’d […]
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When Li Ke was studying accounting in the U.S. Midwest, he frequently would relax at a bar serving trendy cocktails. He noticed that the cocktails were mixed with a variety of hard liquors including vodka, gin and rum. But none of them used baijiu, the […]
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The Monkey King is a legendary character from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Endowed with supernatural powers, the Monkey King helps his master Monk Xuanzang travel to India to obtain sutras.
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Bei Bei, the giant panda cub born on August 22, 2015, was unveiled to the general public at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.
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The Qingshui River Bridge in Guizhou Province is now open to traffic. At 406 meters (1332 feet), it’s the world’s second-highest bridge.
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A Nanjing Massacre-themed museum, the L.A. Memorial Hall of American Heroes during Nanjing Massacre, opened in the city of Los Angeles on the last day of 2015.
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People across China welcomed the New Year in their own unique ways.
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Learn more about the unique instruments help create the distinctive sound of Chinese music.
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The amazing beauty of sunrise at the summit of snow-covered Mount Emei took tourists’ breath away on Sunday morning in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
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The world renowned China National Traditional Orchestra has a way of building a young audience that appreciates classical music. It is wowing audiences in Washington, D.C. and New York.
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A two-year-old panda accidentally swallowed a syringe needle during a regular blood sampling process in a zoo in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday.
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Negotiators at the Paris climate change conference have extended the negotiations by one more day.
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22 artifacts, some more than four thousand years old, are headed back home to China. They were recently seized in federal investigations that spread across three U.S. states involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The long-awaited release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is December 18th. Chinese people, like people all over the world, are ready to line up to watch.
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Train tickets for the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) became available on Nov. 25. The need to buy a ticket to spend the holidays with your family usually means they sell out in seconds.
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And, football star Zhang Chengdong has made his debut for Spain’s Rayo Vallecano in midweek – becoming the first Chinese player to play in Spain’s top division, La Liga.
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China’s northern city of Shijiazhuang has gained attention in the past in China for its faux landmarks from around the world that included a representation of the Sphinx in Egypt and the famous Louvre Museum in Paris. This time, the city has come up with […]
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One Nobel Peace Prize winner says the world’s youth has to play a bigger role in climate change. That’s according to former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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Famous tourist attractions in Beijing, including the Forbidden City and the Jingshan Park, were inundated with visitors on Sunday as snow blanketed the Chinese capital.
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China’s fifth artificially bred panda was released into the wild on Thursday, as conservationists attempt to diversify the genetic pool of the endangered species.
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China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) is ready to release a giant panda “Hua Jiao” to the wild.
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist masters, nuns, practitioners and experts from China and overseas gathered at Lingshan Mountain in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi for the fourth World Buddhist Forum.
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A record 23 pandas have survived so far this year after being born using artificial insemination techniques, the world’s largest artificial breeding center for pandas announced Thursday.
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Sick of the nonstop rumors that she has a plastic face, top Chinese actress and model Angelababy had her face examined by an expert in full public glare to prove that she is au naturel.
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Chinese scientist Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She is a chief professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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China’s fighter jet J-15, deployed on the country’s first aircraft carrier, wowed crowds when it was flying over Tiananmen Square during the grand parade commemorating the end of World War II in September.
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China showcased its next generation Airborne Early Warning aircraft during the massive parade this September, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Big and magnificent as it is, the plane started very small, with every little piece of it made by […]
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The fairytale-themed wedding of top Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming and model, actress Yang Ying (aka AngelaBaby) has been dubbed ‘the wedding of the century,’ with lots of China’s celebrities in attendance.
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The six-week-old giant panda cub Bei Bei’s eyes are opened.
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Chengdu’s Research Giant Panda breeding center was overwhelmed with huge crowds of people during the week-long National Day holiday as photos showing the crowds went viral after being released.
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As China embraces the National Day holiday, the country’s birthday on Oct. 1st, 2015, let’s take a look at what Chinese people are doing in celebration of the 66th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
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Located in the northwestern China, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has a long and rich history. Here are some things you may not know about Xinjiang.
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As China continues to grow through industrialization, many of its time-honored arts are disappearing.
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At an event at the Smithsonian National Zoo on Friday, first ladies Peng Liyuan of China and Michelle Obama unveiled the name they picked together for the Giant Panda cub born Aug. 22 in Washington, D.C.
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While state dinners have a long tradition, the first head of state to be honored with one at the White House was King David Kalakaua of Hawaii on December 12, 1874 by President and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. When President Xi Jinping attends the state dinner for him […]
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The four-week-old giant panda cub at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. now weighs nearly three pounds and is starting to look like a panda — specifically, his dad.
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The stores in Washington D.C.’s Chinatown may bear Chinese names — along with their more-popularly known English names — but the downtown neighborhood is actually becoming far less Chinese due to increased development and high rents.
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