SYDNEY, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Teenagers from China and Australia have celebrated the Lunar New Year Down Under on Monday evening, at an inspiring event which showcased both traditional culture and cutting edge technology.
China will be celebrating “Chinese New Year”, generally known as “Spring Festival”, on 25 January 2020. It is based on the lunar calendar and usually falls between 21 January and 20 February every year.
On Jan. 17, which was also Minor New Year’s Day, Chinese and foreign travelers celebrated the festival on a high-speed train from Kunming to Hong Kong’s West Kowloon, writing Spring Festival Couplets, making dumplings and giving each other “Fu” (happiness) characters.
As the Year of the Rat approaches, commodities featuring rats have become highly popular on China's e-commerce platforms during the Spring Festival shopping season, with some even going out of stock. Red packets with rat elements sold on Taobao.
