DAVID GREENE, HOST: China is going back to work tomorrow after a weeklong holiday marking the Year of the Horse. Working or not, people will keep celebrating. Traditionally Lunar New Year celebrations go on for a month or so. China is a rapidly urbanizing country, but NPR's Anthony Kuhn found that this is a time when many people flock to the countryside in search of local customs they and their ancestors left behind.
ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan was among the usual celebs on this year's spring festival gala on state television. The audience was roughly the same as usual, about 800 million. But many Chinese find the annual ritual of food, fireworks and TV song and dance shows is getting a bit stale. Some now use the holiday to tra
