Focus on Arts and Ecology

February 4, 2022 

Chinese communities across the world are celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year.

The festivities kicked off with China Media Group’s major Spring Festival Gala as hundreds of millions of Chinese tuned in to watch the TV extravaganza. 

Record Alert! China Media Group's (CMG) Spring Festival Gala was watched by nearly 1.3 billion people on Monday night, China's Lunar New Year's Eve.

Why is it called the Year of the Tiger? Find out here. 

In China, the tiger represents bravery, power, and passion. A tiger-shaped cake, a tiger brand milk tea, and a huge tiger sculpture.

• Take a look at how people in Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico are spending the holiday and what they hope to see in the Year of the Tiger
• Disney’s Lunar New Year event returns to Disneyland California this year,  following a year-long closure due to coronavirus that lasted until April last year.

Holiday travel across China increased since Wednesday, the third day of the week-long Spring Festival holiday season. Some 137 million domestic tourist trips were made across the country in the first three days of the holiday, data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed, generating 167 billion yuan ($26 billion) in tourism revenue. 

The number of tourist trips saw a 71.5-percent recovery to the pre-COVID-19 level in 2019, according to the ministry.

(Sources: China Report)