Red dresses, Year of the Horse imagery and the sound of tuning strings filled David Geffen Hall on Wednesday as the New York Philharmonic opened its annual Lunar New Year concert and gala, drawing a diverse audience into a shared celebration.
Picture a typical scene in an antidrug drama: capable police officers, shrewd criminals, and high-octane stunts like gunfights and car chases. It is a familiar formula.
During the nine-day Spring Festival holiday that concluded on Monday, about 60 percent of travel orders were for trips lasting more than five days, and the average length of stay per person reached 6.4 days, an increase of half a day year-on-year, according to the tourism platform Mafengwo.
During the Spring Festival holiday, catering, accommodation, intangible cultural heritage experiences, and leisure entertainment saw remarkable growth, according to a recent report by social media platform Douyin.
A new book sharing event was recently held at Today Art Museum in Beijing to promote author Lei Tao's new book, Travel with the Flow.
Domestic travel bookings hit a record high during the nine-day Spring Festival holiday that concluded on Monday, with attraction ticket bookings surging over 80 percent year-on-year and hotel bookings increasing by over 75 percent year-on-year, according to the online travel platform Fliggy.
Once again, the nine-day Spring Festival holiday has proved to be the perfect time for audiences to fully immerse themselves in cinematic dream worlds.
Over 12.69 million posts related to ice and snow were uploaded to the short-video platform Douyin in 2025, an increase of over 128 percent year-on-year.
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, the 2026 Fujian Spring Festival Gala was broadcast worldwide, linking audiences across continents in a shared celebration of heritage and reunion in the Year of the Horse.
Take Dreams as Steeds, an ongoing exhibition at the Art Museum of the Beijing Fine Art Academy, guides the audience on a spiritual journey in which the horse, as a revisited motif, is embedded with rich meanings.
Handwritten or printed, the couplets rendered in the calligraphic style have been an essential part of the festive customs associated with Chinese New Year celebrations.
Amid the bustling pre-holiday crowd at a Beijing Daoxiangcun store, Wang Xinyue held up an exquisitely designed gift box, her eyes drawn not just to the pastries inside, but to a small, gleaming object attached to the packaging.
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