Chinese Holidays

Nothing Can Stop a Willing Heart to Back Home

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as 'Spring Festival', the literal translation of the Chinese name Chun Jie. This year 2013, the most important traditional day will start from 9 February , 2013, the New Year Eve. By this time most Chinese people will have the lone-held cultural belie that Chinese New Year is a time to reunite with the family. People come home form work and study , then have the big big reunion dinner with their family on New Year’s Eve. But for a student who studied at different and does not have real vacation for a big traditional holiday for four years, i really cannot have a same feeling as many people who plan to go back home since the beginning of the semester. However, i still know there have a number of people will back home for this memorable time. Because i believe all of the Chinese have a heart of the meaning of family is very important for them, wherever they are, they truly believe they will back home in the end.

That’s why the biggest event of the year is happen for every year-Chun Yun, a period of travel in China with extremely high traffic load around the time of the Chinese New Year. The period usually begins 15 days before the Lunar New Year's Day and lasts for around 40 days. The number of passenger journeys during the Chunyun period has exceeded the population of China. This is the officially explanation from wikipedia. From my own opinion is the one of the biggest immigration wave in every Chinese New Year.

It is called by the media : Trapped into Population Predicament, it is hard to imagine how crowded in the railway station, airport, or anywhere?

During the 40 days of Chunyun period, the inter-city transportation faces great challenges. The demand for tickets far exceeds the supply. Various measures are adopted