Baotou celebrates Chinese New Year

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. The festival fell on Feb 5 this year, marking the Year of the Pig.

At Spring Festival time, families all over China gather to enjoy the annual reunion meal on the evening before the first day of the festival holiday period.

Usually the celebrations run from the evening before the first day and continue to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Festivities in Baotou, the largest city in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, include fireworks and decorating windows with paper-cuts.

A girl decorates a window with a paper-cut. [Photo/Baotou Daily]

Residents clean windows before the Spring Festival in Baotou. [Photo/Baotou Daily]