Blog Tag - Chunjie

China's Tech Giants Announce Plans for Hongbao Battle Ahead of Spring Festival
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. [Updated Feb 7, 2018] This post is updated to include rumors about Alipay’s plan for...
UNFINISHED Spring Festival Opening Hours
[Updated Feb 16] If the thought of staying in Beijing for Chinese New Year makes you flinch, fear not. While the subway cars become abandoned your...
Spring Festival Hours: A Rough Guide to What's Open (and Closed)
Spring Festival: when the entire city seems to empty out and shut down. If you're not tanning on a tropical beach (or at home visiting family), this...
Snake Celebrations: Beijing’s 2013 Temple Fairs
If you've ever stayed in Beijing during the Spring Festival holiday, you know that it can be pretty nice. The streets are empty and there are a...
George’s Guide to Chinese New Year
It’s amazing how many people still believe that Spring Festival is about new beginnings and the importance of family. Those quaint concerns might...
Spring on the Snakes
The Year of the Snake is swiftly slithering towards us. The city will slow down and empty out, the fireworks will be going off nonstop and dumplings...
News You Might Have Missed: Chunjie Survival Guide
If headlines are to be believed, not many people are enjoying the Spring Festival. As Beijing empties out (though seriously, how empty can a city...
Family Feud: Memories of an Explosive Spring Festival
Spring Festival is a time for family and blowing shit up, but since I grew up in Virginia without extended family or illegal fireworks, Chinese New...
Time For Temple: Chinese New Year's Fairs
One of the best parts about staying in Beijing over Chinese New Year is the chance to attend the temple fairs. Food stalls serve up goodies from...
Spring Festival Travel: Planes, Trains or Automobiles?
The Chinese New Year travel period, known as Chun Yun, began this past Sunday and will last 40 days. More than three billion passenger journeys are...
Enthralled to Suicidal: How Foreigners Experience Spring Festival
The smoke has finally cleared from the city (yeah ok, the smoke never really clears over Beijing, but at least the smoke directly attributable to...
More Firework Restrictions as New Year Celebrations End Tomorrow
Tomorrow (Thursday) is the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, also known as “Lantern Festival,” which officially marks the end of the new year...
Chunjie Casualty List: Fires, Deaths & Eye Ball Removals
Disappointingly CCTV again failed to deliver a spectacle to match the amazing fireball extravaganza of 2009 that saw the station sacrifice their own...
Fireworks Banned from the CBD
The CBD may have a quiet Spring Festival now that fireworks have been banned from the area. After six years without any restrictions, during which...
Chun Yun Travails
The Spring Festival move has started. Chun Yun is the world’s largest yearly human migration and it is expected that half of China’s population will...