Cao Xueqin’s book A Dream of the Red Mansions, provides a good look at how a noble family in feudal China celebrated the Lunar New Year.
Spring Festival, which falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, is the most important festival in China and a time for family reunion, like Christmas in the West.
Performers attend the parade rehearsal of the Spring Festival temple fair held at Badachu Park in Beijing on Feb 9. The Spring Festival celebration at the park will vividly portray the heritage of the century-old temple fair to the public from Feb 19 to 24.
More than 800 programs of the "Happy Chinese New Year 2015" have so far been staged in 320 cities in 118 countries and regions worldwide, Chinese Minister of Culture, Luo Shugang, said.
The Capital Museum in Beijing has a special exhibition for the Year of the Sheep that begins on Feb 11, or on "Little New Year" ("Xiaonian" in Chinese) to showcase sheep,one of 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac.
Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week before the lunar New Year, falls on Feb 11 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.
A group of old photos reveal the New Year scenes in 1950s and 1960s.
Passage to China, a large-scale documentary series produced by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP), was released in Beijing on Feb 9.
Members of the Chinese community perform during the annual Lion Dance parade to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year along Somerset Street in Ottawa's Chinatown, Canada, on Feb 8, 2015.
Jincheng government made a commitment on Friday to thoroughly investigate the destruction of cultural relics and increase funding to protect them in an official response to an incident where an ancient village was demolished to make way for coal mining in Zezhou county in Jincheng, North China's Shanxi province.
The Ministry of Culture has published the results of an investigation into online companies that violate rules and laws.
The Shandong Cultural Exchange Festival opened in the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Jan 29.
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