spring festival

It seems a bit early to us, wishful thinking maybe, but they call it the "Spring Festival" season in China -  the last two days of the Lunar New Year January 25, 26.  Spring festival time is China's major annual time for getting on the road to visit family and friends. And it's a national tradition to go to one's "native" village in the countryside.

So this is the time of the year when the expressways are most heavily trafficked.