China marks Lunar New Year holiday with family, feasting, fireworks
January 29, 2006China marked the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday of the Chinese calendar, with feasting and fireworks Sunday after weeks of mass travel for family visits. Residents of central Beijing, allowed to set off fireworks and firecrackers for the first time since 1993, embraced the opportunity with enthusiasm, lighting up the sky with bright explosions into the early hours of Sunday.