Relive the 2010 CCTV Spring Festival Gala – Arts & Entertainment

While it does not always fall on the same date, this year Chinese New Year and Tibet's Losar fall on the same date. Losar is celebrated for 15 days, with the main celebrations on the first three days. Losar is also known as Bal Gyal Lo. Bal is Tibet, Gyal is King, Lo is year. The Losar is also celebrated across the Himalayas and in India as well.

I recently watched the Fan Lixin documentary Last Train Home, which captures the life of two migrant workers and their relationship with their two children they only see once a year after a long journey home. This is what I thought about it.

Spring Festival's "golden week" sees retail sales in China hit 340 billion yuan, or 50 billion US dollars. That's a 17 percent improvement over the same period last year. China's major retailers said food sales grew 16 percent year on year, while sales of tobacco and liquor were up 13 percent.

Just in time to ring in the lunar new year, QQ features photos from Spring Festival in decades past, as well as a write-up of older Chengdu residents' memories of Spring Festival during those times, which we've loosely translated.