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| Folk cuisine, individualized travel spice up the New Year holiday |
| CCTV.COM 2003-02-10 10:02:09 |
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Free time during the traditional Spring Festival gives Chinese free time to join family reunions. But that's not all as many Chinese also use their time to taste different Chinese traditional food and enjoy the beauty of nature in unique ways.
In just seven days, more than 59 million Chinese chose travel as their way to celebrate the New Year, up 15.3 percent compared with last year.
"This year saw more colorful folk activities and excellent traditional culture activities. In addition, the China Tourism Administration marked 2003 as the year of "Journey to the Cuisine Kingdom", no wonder, a variety of activities related to cuisine was all in vogue everywhere around the country," said Wang Jun, chief director of Chinese National Holiday Office.
Some 100 or more different kinds of folk activities were held across China during the Spring Festival, including local festivals and folk performances. But it was eating that brought travelers good luck and the chance to try a little of everything, no matter if it was the cuisine festival in Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, snack festival in Nanning in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a dumpling－making competition in Guiyang in Guizhou Province or a pancake－eating match in Jinan city in Shandong Province.
Along with the delicious cuisine, some individualized tours were also favorites. Both self－driving journeys and backpacking tour caught on among holiday revelers. And some 100 unique traveling programs launched by many travel agencies, like "island vacations" and "the photography journeys" were all favorites of travel－lovers.
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Editor: Han Ling CCTV.com
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