China greets the Lunar New Year with hopes of returning to normality - but also grief and loss.
It's a chance for families to gather and celebrate each other's successes, and regroup for a fresh start. But it will be bittersweet this year. Even as large swathes of China turn festive red - the colour of the Spring Festival - it's hard to miss the white, the sign of a household in mourning.
Melody and her family are in no mood to celebrate the holiday this year - but she says they will nevertheless meet because her 90-year-old grandmother doesn't yet know of her grandfather's passing. Sandy says she has been lucky. She has been hearing stories of friends losing family to Covid - but her 87-year-old grandmother has just recovered from the infection.
Even though she wasn't home for the past three years, she says she recreated her favourite dishes to beat back the nostalgia: "My family's New Year traditions have become a part of my life unconsciously." "I just wanted to go home and see him one more time," says Kelly, who flew home over the weekend to the southwestern city of Chengdu from Hong Kong, where she now lives.
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