Spring Festival is China Lunar New Year. It is the most important Festival in China. Spring Festival is a festival for family reunion, almost of the people who living away return home for the family reunion. Spring Festival normally takes place between the late January and late February; the Spring Festival of 2011 falls on February  3rd.

 

It is a long history for the Chinese people to celebrate Spring Festival, with numerous traditional activities. The best way to experience the original tradition is not go to the city but to the countryside, where lots of the folk activities of the Spring Festival are preserved, such as: spring cleaning, post couplets, stick door gods, hair-cut for the festival, year market... .

 

Our Seven Days 2011 Spring Festival Tour in Countryside takes you to experience and enjoy the real and unspoiled original atmosphere of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Our destination is to the south of Guangxi: Bobai County Yulin City. Over there the residents are Ke jia ren ( Ke jia people ), Kejia people speak Ke jia language not Mandarin and inherit the main traditions of Lunar New Year.

 

 

Take train or bus from Yangshuo Guilin to the countryside in the south of Guangxi: Zhaofutian Village  Tanglong Community  Dongping Town  Bobai County  Yulin City Guangxi.

Stay in the local home

 

Visit local market: Dongping Market. This day is market day of Dongping Town and it is the nearest market day to the Lunar New Year so it is busiest market day among the year.

See how the people sell and buy for preparing the Spring Festival.

 

Visit the local villagers, experience the real countryside life and how they prepare for the Spring Festival.

 

This day is the Lunar New Year's Eve. Join the family to celebrate the festival---Guonian: post couplets, stick pictures of Door Gods, slaughter chickens and prepare food to respect to the ancestors: burn paper money and incense to ancestors, let off firecrackers and fireworks.

 

This day is the Spring Festival of 2011. Join the family to celebrate the festival, set off firecrackers and fireworks, give out red packets,

 

See how the local people visiting friends and relatives, Experience local people ceremony and feast for new house. watch Dragon Dance.

 

Go back to Yangshuo Guilin by train.

 

1, All meals in the villages

2, Rooms staying in local homes with the family.

3, Traditional activities of Spring Festival.

4, All transportation and transfers from Yangshuo to our destination Zhaofutian village, transportation needed in all activities and from the village back to Yangshuo

 

1, Red Package ( hong bao ) if you'd like to give it to the children in the rural villages ( You don't need to, but you can do it )

2, Red Package ( Hong bao ) if there is a chance and you'd like to join any feasts such as wedding or new house ceremony.

3, Other personal expenses