Also known as the Spring Festival (春節), or simply Chinese New Year ... In mainland China, official celebrations last for seven days as a public holiday. As a scholar of Chinese religious history and ...

There’s something special about Chinese New Year. Unlike most other major festivals in the country, it is one that transcends religion, which is something the country needs. THE beginning of the ...

Last year, I took part in a service project in Taiwan where my classmates and I had to clean up abandoned traditional Chinese-style houses. One day, we went and explored a nearby abandoned dwelling.

Quite a few Miao, Yao and Yi are Catholics and Christians. Religious Han Chinese tend to practice Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism or Taoism. Buddhism was introduced to China from India ...

[Photo/Xinhua] A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Thursday delivered Spring Festival greetings ... of national religious groups ahead of the Chinese New Year.