Lunar New Year is to China what the Christmas-New Year holiday period is to the United States -- except China's 1.4 billion population is more than four times that of the US.
Saturday marks the first day of the Lunar New Year, also known in China as Spring Festival. It's a time when families gather, often traveling huge distances to go home. Revelers gorge on banquets, give each other packets of money known as"hong bao," wear the lucky color red, and set off firecrackers to scare off the legendary half-dragon, half-lion monster"Nian" who comes out of hiding during Lunar New Year. But this year, the festive season has become a season of fear.
It's hard to overstate the significance of this. Lunar New Year is to China what the Christmas-New Year holiday period is to the United States -- except China's 1.4 billion population is more than four times that of the US.Earlier this month, China was bracing itself for 3 billion individual trips over the Spring Festival period -- slightly up on last year's 2.99 billion trips. Now, hundreds of thousands of people in China are facing disrupted travel plans.
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