Lunare New Year
---Gather with family and eat some holiday treats and celebrate
Every year about this time, the same things happen: Busy cities empty, traditional markets fill with holiday shoppers, and people journey home. Many Lunar New Year traditions, like giving red envelopes and having family reunions, have been going on for years. Yet the way people celebrate this traidional holiday has also changed over time.
Holiday travel
During Lunar New Year , also called Spring Festival, people return to their hometowns, often in the countrysie, to gather with their extended families. In China, the massive migration of people from city to countryside has a special name: chunyun, which means "spring transportation." Around two billion train, bus, boat or plane trips are made within China each holiday season. For these travelers, the long wait to buy tickets and the even longer rides on crowded buses and trains are worth it.
In recent years, however, some urban families have decided to avoid the holiday crowds altogether by going abroad. In 2006, some 35 million trips were made overseas durg the holiday period. Popular destinations included Thailand, malaysia and Australia.
hometown: a place he is very familiar with.
ancestral home: a place where the ancestors live.
migration from the city to the countryside.
massive migration: huge. enormous.
spring transportation
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