The most important traditional holiday in China, Spring Festival, is a season for people to get together with their families and friends. Meanwhile, many young people are thinking of “escaping” from the traditional festival.

Young people are always attracted to things that are new and exotic. As the influence of computer and the Internet becoming more and more tremendous, those who chose to stay at home to celebrate the spring festival also had new contents in their holidays — surfing on Internet.

An increasing number of the Chinese people are conveying festival greetings by e-mail. China’s capital, Beijing, now has more than four million Internet users, leading the country in the number of the Internet surfers.

All portal websites have established special zones for the Spring Festival. Here people could order flowers and gifts, send electronic New Year’s cards to relatives and friends or download short messages for mobile phones.

During the 2009 Spring Festival, CCSTV New Year’s Gala wins the attention of millions of Internet surfers. It is the grassroots shanzhai version of the official CCTV New Year’s Gala, and will be broadcast live for free online on January 25, 2009.

 

For those who cannot go back to their hometown, people also can enjoy the family reunion dinners on each side of cameras by using the power of computers and the Internet, and to send festival greetings to faraway friends via cameraslinked to the Internet might be a good choice.

Those seeking the novelties of the Spring Festival, a festival that has been observed annually in China for more than 4,000 years, can turn to the Internet.