Une famille de trois personnes à bord d'un autobus à une station de bus longue distance qu'ils reviennent au pays pour le Nouvel An chinois ou fête du printemps à Ruian ci
A family of three board a bus at a long-distance bus station as they are going back home for the Chinese Lunar New Year or Spring Festival in Ruian city, east Chinas Zhejiang province, 16 January 2014. With a military-style precision that framed something very human and messy, the worlds biggest annual human migration, the Chinese Lunar New Year festival, known as Spring Festival, officially got under way in the first second of Thursday, January 16, and will last 40 days, Chinese officials said. Demonstrating a deeply felt need among hundreds of millions of people working away from home to return for the most important festival of the year, a good portion of Chinas 1.35 billion people are expected to make over 3.6 billion journeys, by plane, train, automobile, bus, motorized tricycle and probably a few donkeys. That movement of people strains the countrys transportation system, with tickets hard to buy, controversies over ticket sale systems, black-marketeering by yellow oxen (as the marketeers are called), trains packed like sardine tins and fights over boarding, lines and seats. But the end goal, celebrating with family, is considered worth it. This year, New Years Day is January 31, beginning the Year of the Horse.
