Beijing in Chinese New Year: Hutongs, Rabbit God, and Street

What Chinese New Year is REALLY Like in Beijing 🇨🇳

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What Chinese New Year is REALLY Like in Beijing 🇨🇳
20Camels2026-03-0734 min

What follows is the traveler’s vivid walk through Beijing during the Spring Festival, uncovering how locals decorate, celebrate, and seek luck. The video showcases central Beijing’s landmarks along the historic axis, the Rabbit God, New Year decorations and their meanings, sugar blown candies, lucky symbols, and the famous Hutong neighborhoods dating back centuries. Viewers get up close with the vibrant street life, including tastings of traditional treats such as White Rabbit candy, and scenes of life around wealth and fortune as well as prayers at spiritual sites. The itinerary moves from bustling night atmospheres to intimate moments in alleyways, culminating in temple visits and reflections on ancient architecture and festive décor. The host also notes unusual moments and playful surprises, and the overall experience counters the expectation that Beijing is quiet during the New Year, showing instead a city alive with customs, color, and flavor.

--- 20Camels
March 7, 2026, Spring in China

Video Chapters

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:12Beijing's Central Axis
  3. 1:20Beijing's Rabbit God
  4. 2:51New Year Decorations & Meanings
  5. 4:11Sugar-blown Candies
  6. 4:45Lucky symbols
  7. 7:48Traditional Hutong Neighborhood
  8. 9:33Female Bathroom with No Door
  9. 13:30Nighttime Atmosphere
  10. 14:46Trying Famous Chinese Candy White Rabbit
  11. 19:15Wealth God
  12. 19:33Touch Screen Trash
  13. 22:32Eating Dumplings for Wealth
  14. 24:09Praying at Tibetan Buddhist Temple (Lama Temple)
  15. 24:28Wudaoying Hutong
  16. 28:03Significance of Hutong Architecture & Decoration
  17. 31:41Fortune Telling & Picking Lucky Names Store

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Attractions in this video: Hutong, Forbidden City, Tiananmen, Lama Temple, Central Axis, Hutong Market