CHINA / SOCIETY A unique but safe, warm Spring Festival By GT staff reporters Published: Feb 10, 2021 12:13 AM Updated: Feb 10, 2021 12:28 AM Beijing's Shichahai is decorated to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: VCG Editor's Note: To the Chinese, the Spring Festival, or the lunar Chinese New Year, always means many things. But the 2020 Spring Festival did not go as Wuhan people had expected. On Chinese New Year's eve last year, the city of 11 million people was locked down - unparalleled in any modern society - that lasted 76 days. People in other places across China were also kept indoors to avoid being infected.