Overview
- Fireworks, temple visits and street festivals from Beijing and Hong Kong to Moscow and Buenos Aires marked the February 17 start, with China’s CCTV gala featuring a children-and-robot kung fu performance.
- Beijing forecasts 9.5 billion passenger trips across the 40-day Spring Festival period and has issued more than 360 million yuan (about $52 million) in consumer vouchers to spur spending.
- The Spring Festival runs roughly 15 days to the Lantern Festival on March 3, with reunion dinners, red envelopes and symbolic foods such as dumplings, fish and niangao alongside lion and dragon dances.
- This is the first Fire Horse year since 1966, a once-in-60-years pairing in the zodiac that tradition associates with high energy, rapid change and bold action.
- Major cities are hosting programs through the holiday, including Hudson Yards activations in New York through February 22 and Chinatown’s annual parade on March 1.