Winter Olympics host China welcomes Year of Tiger with quiet celebrations amid COVID outbreaks
Sakshi Education
China is celebrating the Spring Festival, its most important annual festival as it entered the Lunar new Year of the Tiger bidding goodbye to the Lunar Year of the Ox. Chinese residents normally ring in the start of the New Year with fireworks, lanterns, balloons, food, and family time. But this year, it is very different.
Winter Olympics host China welcomes Year of Tiger with quiet celebrations amid COVID outbreaks
This year the celebrations coincide with the Beijing Winter Olympics, which open near the end of the weeklong holiday. Capital Beijing has been tightening controls to contain coronavirus outbreaks ahead of the international sporting event causing a subdued celebration.
