Eating dumplings at the Spring Festival is traditional in China.

春节吃饺子是中国的传统。

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At the Spring Festival, we have peanuts.

在春节，我们吃花生。

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We are going to buy a color TV at the Spring Festival.

我们打算在春节期间买一部彩色电视。

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At the nearby Landao Department Store, sales topped 6.13 million RMB, nearly 1.5 million RMB above the record set at the height of this year's Spring Festival shopping season.

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At a spring festival gathering in February, the Hong Kong Pui Ching Alumni Association ordered a 10-course meal but opted to replace the shark's fin soup with a chicken, fish belly and abalone soup.

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Romantic comedies and other genre films that premiere at the festival could be released as early as this spring, but most movies with Oscar ambitions probably won't make it to theaters until the fall of 2012, when the lead-up to nominations begins.

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