{"id":7817,"date":"2012-01-17T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2023-01-19T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:22:54","slug":"chinese-new-year-spring-festival-2012-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-winter-tour\/chinese-new-year-spring-festival-2012-is-coming","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) is coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you plan a Beijing tour <\/a>during the Chinese new year, you would have an opportunity to see how Chinese people spend their new year. Chinese new year or Spring Festival<\/a><\/strong> gives Chinese people a week-long holiday, this year\u00a0from Jan 22, the new year\u2019s eve to Jan 29, 2012. This Chinese new year is coming so early with\u00a0its new year\u2019s first day falling on Jan 23, 2012,\u00a0only a week away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually I\u2019m not mentally prepared for the approaching spring festival till\u00a0tonight when I change the route of my routine stroll after dinner and wander slowly down to the commercial New Century Shopping Center, not far from my Donghuashi Nanling Community<\/a><\/strong>, about half hours\u2019s walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There I have felt or even touched the coming spring festival<\/strong>.<\/a> Department stores ane small stalls are swarmed with holiday shoppers, buying\u00a0new year food,\u00a0new year gifts, new clothes, new home appliances etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Century Shopping Mall is beautifully lit and festooned with red lanterns, signs of dragons and festive pendant<\/p>\n\n\n

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The New Century Shopping Mall is beautifully lit and festooned with red lanterns<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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What catches my eyes are the small makeshift stalls in front of the decent shopping mall selling new year stuff<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The shoppers are choosing all the good things to decorate their home for greeting the coming new year<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Clay Figurines<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Pinwheels<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Choosing Chinese paper-cuts for window decoration<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Beautiful new year pendants<\/p>\n\n\n

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The vendor is holing up the poster of God of Wealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Tip: Hassle-free Beijing Guided Tours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t want to go the do-it-yourself route and prefer the hassle-free escorted tours,  here are some options for Beijing guided tours:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beijing Day Tour<\/a>
Beijing Tour Packages<\/a>
Great Wall Tour<\/a>
Beijing City Tour<\/a>
Beijing Winter Tour<\/a>
Beijing Autumn Tour<\/a>
Car Rental in Beijing<\/a>
Beijing Tours<\/a>
China City Tours<\/a>
China Tour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Readings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Time to Visit Beijing<\/a>
How to plan a trip to Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top 10 Attractions in Beijing<\/a>
How to Visit Forbidden City<\/a>
How to Visit Temple of Heaven<\/a>
How to Visit Summer Palace<\/a>
How to Visit Ming Tombs<\/a>
How to Visit the Great Wall of China<\/a>
How to Visit Tiananmen Square<\/a>
How to Visit Hutongs<\/a>
How to Visit Olympic Sites<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top 10 Markets in Beijing<\/a>
Top 10 Shopping Malls in Beijing<\/a>
Beijing Shopping<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wangfujing Walking Street<\/a>
Qianmen Commercial Street<\/a>
Gui Jie ( Ghost Street) Food Street<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you plan a Beijing tour during the Chinese new year, you would have an opportunity to see how Chinese people spend their new year. Chinese new year or Spring Festival gives Chinese people a week-long holiday, this year\u00a0from Jan 22, the new year\u2019s eve to Jan 29, 2012. This Chinese new year is coming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-winter-tour","category-chinese-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817"}],"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=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31633,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/31633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}