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China's traditional Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls on the first day of the fifth solar term on the lunisolar calendar, and this year, it's the 4th of April. Tomb Sweeping is the most important custom of the festival.
A new species of primate has been identified and named the Skywalker hoolock gibbon at the Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve in southwest China. The Star War gibbon in China lives to the east of the Irrawaddy river. [Photo: Yun Shan] While the an
Spring is the Green Season Spring is coming. Spring is the first season of the year. In China, spring comes in February. It is still cold, but it is getting warmer and warmer. The days get longer and longer. The leaves on the trees begin to turn gree
THIS IS AMERICA - Songs About Spring Can Be Happy or Sad Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. This week Barbara Klein and Steve Ember play songs about spring. On earlier shows, we have brought you some of our favorite songs about summer
A group of orphans were invited to the Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe to share the happiness of traditional Chinese New Year and Spring Festival celebrations. CRI's correspondent in southern Africa, Gao Junya, brings us the story. At an open house event
Doing Spring Cleaning Malcolm: Do we really need to start doing spring cleaning today? Lorna: We really should. The drapes need to be washed, the walls need to be wiped down, and the attic needs cleaning out. And we really should clean the upholstery
waiting for the big fall 等待將至的大雨 to take us all 把我們帶走吧 quiet nights and desperate love 寂靜的夜,絕望的愛 we need it all 我們都需要麽? spring came rain fell 你看,春天來了,雨落 we ended up nowhere
Im as restless as a willow in a windstorm Im as jumpy as a puppet on a string Id say that I had Spring fever But I know it isnt Spring I am starry-eyed and vaguely discontented Like a nightingale without a song to sing Oh, why should I have Spring fe
Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' Celebrates 100 The opening notes of The Rite of Spring are iconic and beloved today. But for many audience members who came to the Ballet Russes in 1913, they were unwelcome. A bassoon had likely never been performed in
Monday marked the Navruz holiday, or the celebration of New Year across parts of the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Asia. Here in Beijing, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held a celebration for diplomats and foreigners from countrie
While Chinese people bask in the afterglow of Lunar-New-Year celebrations, a BBC documentary - entitled Chinese New Year, the Biggest Celebration on Earth - is coming to CCTV's documentary channel. It reflects the growing global recognition of the fe
With more and more Chinese people now starting to shun the tradition of traveling home for the Spring Festival and traveling overseas instead, Chinese tourism operators are starting to tailor their packages accordingly. CRI's Su Yi has more. Sydney's
Zhang Yu, from Shanghai, has plans to visit cities across the country during the Spring Festival holiday. He is using a new car-pooling service to give rides to others who plan to travel during the holiday. It would be good if I can share my car with
A female graduate student surnamed Chen bought 4 train tickets and travelled more than half way across China to get home. The journey took her three days, starting at the northern city of Tianjin, via Nanning, the capital city of south China's Guangx
Spring makes Wenatchee come alive. Because there are so many flowering trees, like Dogwoods and Magnolias, the town becomes full of pink and white. There are also lots of orchards still; apple, pear, apricot, and cherry trees are grown in this area,
The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planner, estimates the population will make some 3.4 billion trips during Spring Festival using cars, buses, trains, airplanes and ships. Comparing to other transportation, som
While shopping malls and supermarkets have sprung up around Qingdao, an international city in east China's Shandong Province, people are still fond of visiting traditional open air markets in the countryside during the New Year. The Licun village Fai
As the Spring Festival ends, people have posted various bills of the money they spent during the Spring Festival on the internet. This has stirred heated discussions about the costs of nationwide family-gathering holidays. Gu Jun, who works in the in
Nearly a thousand local residents braved the continuous snowfall and cold weather Wednesday evening in Ottawa, capital city of Canada, to watch the Carnival China Style 2013 variety show. I bring my daughter, my step-daughter and my mother-in-law. So
Over 300 million railway trips have been made during this year's spring festival travel rush - though the latest numbers only count until the end of February. The highest single-day travel happened on February 14th - Valentine's Day - with over 10 mi