{"id":2405,"date":"2011-01-06T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T10:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2011-01-06T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T10:05:26","slug":"chinese-new-year-vs-western-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/china-travel\/chinese-culture\/chinese-new-year-vs-western-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year VS Western Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chinese Lunar New Year Feb 02 - 09, 2011 ( a week-long holiday)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Every\u00a0country and every nation\u00a0has its own traditional festivals. The Chinese New Year (<\/span>Spring Festival<\/span><\/a>) is\u00a0the biggst red-letter\u00a0holiday in China while Christmas is the most important holiday day in the western world. Those festivals\u00a0offer people an opportunity to be\u00a0torn away\u00a0from their\u00a0routine work and\u00a0daily worries to\u00a0unwind themselves and to\u00a0foster kinship and friendship.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe\u00a0<\/span>Spring Festival<\/span><\/a> (Chinese new year)\u00a0and Christmas have much in common. Both are prepared\u00a0in advance\u00a0to create a\u00a0happy atmosphere; both\u00a0provide a family reunion with a\u00a0big feast; both\u00a0make the children happy with exciting gifts, yummy food and new clothes.\u00a0But Chinese Spring Festival has nothing to do with religion while Christmas has something to do with God and there is Santa Claus with white beard to bring children presents.
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\nToday,\u00a0many of the Chinese\u00a0young people\u00a0have started to\u00a0celebrate Christmas, following the example of the westerners.\u00a0Maybe they\u00a0spend Christmas mainly\u00a0just for fun\u00a0becuase of\u00a0curiosity. However, for\u00a0most expats living in Beijing or other parts of China, they\u00a0would like\u00a0to\u00a0spend Chinese Spring Festival mainly due to the fact it is a good\u00a0idea to explore\u00a0deep Chinese culture. Various traditional customs and activities are\u00a0kept and handed\u00a0down during the Chinese new year (<\/span>Spring Festival<\/span><\/a>) including pasting Spring Festival scrolls, paper-cuts pictures, setting off firecrackers and fireworks, paying New Year visits, and eating dumplings.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The date for Chinese Lunar new year is not fixed, between late Jan and early Feb each year. This year 2011’s Chinese new year day\u00a0falls on Feb 3, 2010.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe official paid day off for the\u00a0<\/span>Spring Festival<\/span><\/a> is 3 days. But Chinese government makes it a 7 day holiday by moving the prior weekend and the upcoming one together with these 3 days. This is the Chinese government’s “holiday economy” policy. In a nation that for thousands of years held diligence and hard work in the highest esteem, the Chinese have learned to relax, travel and loosen their wallets since their country began its thrice annual holidays seven years ago, known as Golden Weeks<\/span>.<\/div>\n
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Beijing Chinese New Year Travel Service<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00bb <\/span>Chinese New Year Eve Experience Tour <\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bb <\/span>Beijing Spring Festival Day Tour <\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bb <\/span>Lantern Festival Experience Tour<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00bb <\/span>Beijing Spring Festival 6-Day Tour Package<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Every\u00a0country and every nation\u00a0has its own traditional festivals. The Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is\u00a0the biggst red-letter\u00a0holiday in China while Christmas is the most important holiday day in the western world. Those festivals\u00a0offer people an opportunity to be\u00a0torn away\u00a0from their\u00a0routine work and\u00a0daily worries to\u00a0unwind themselves and to\u00a0foster kinship and friendship. The\u00a0Spring Festival (Chinese new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[439,440,438],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","tag-chinese-lunar-new-year-2011","tag-chinese-new-year-and-christmas","tag-chinses-new-year-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}