Lunar New Year in Beijing: Temple Fairs and Family Traditions
Video transcript
Happy New Year from Beijing, the capital of China. It's not January 1st, but it's the Lunar New Year. It's the first day of the year of the horse. The Chinese zodiac has 12 animals, and we've given away to the year of the snake and started the year of the horse. So, what happens on Lunar New Year? Lunar New Year is the biggest holiday in China. If you include the weekends, people in China will spend China get 9 days off. And what do they do? Well, a lot of them go home to their hometowns. They go home, and on New Year's Eve, they have dinner with their
families. It's a big traditional get-together kind of gathering. And then, on New Year's Day, a lot of them will go to temples to wish for happiness, for whatever they want in in the new year. Another important activity is what where we are right now, which is a temple fair. Temple fairs are on the sites of temples or former temples, and they're places where booths are set up, and people bring their children, people bring their partners, and they come here for uh for fun, to eat some food, to watch some some traditional performances, to buy some trinkets
and souvenirs, and all that kind of thing. So, it's really a day of of celebration here in China. Um the holiday will go on for another week or so, and people will keep enjoying themselves and also relaxing from the busy pace of work while looking ahead to a really great year in the coming year of the horse.
