CCTV News: On the 14th, the 40-day 2025 Spring Festival travel rush officially kicked off. Some unique trains, such as the "folk custom" travel photography special train in the snow town of Northeast China, the "intangible cultural heritage" experience special train in the Shu area in the southwest, and the "New Year's Freight Festival" special train in the desert of Northwest, also carried passengers to start the Spring Festival travel journey together.

It is the peak season for ice and snow tourism. What is being held on the K5197 train from Harbin to Yabulinan is a folk fashion show. Passengers can change into Chinese style and folk styles and take a show on the train to take pictures.

On the G828 train from north Xi'an to west Kowloon, Hong Kong, train staff from the Xi'an passenger section used Chinese knots, Fu characters, Spring Festival couplets and other decorations to create a strong Spring Festival atmosphere on the incoming trains.

This year's Spring Festival travel rush is also the first Spring Festival travel rush after the successful application for the Spring Festival. On the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush, on the D5123 train from Yilong, Sichuan to Nanchong, a "intangible cultural heritage" interactive experience activity represented by paper cutting, seal carving and calligraphy was carried out in the carriage. Intangible cultural heritage inheritors create paper-cut works with tourists, and small and exquisite paper-cut works were born under the scissors of passengers.

Along the Spring Festival travel journey, a unique "Train New Year's Day" is being held on the 7556 ordinary train from Urumqi to Hotan in the northwest desert. In addition to providing daily passenger transport services, local farmers can also go to the market on the train. Fig jam, walnut handicrafts and other special agricultural products in southern Xinjiang are sold in large quantities. In order to further help fellow villagers broaden the sales of agricultural products, this train also launched a live online broadcast on the first day of the Spring Festival travel rush.

Henan: Intangible cultural heritage station has a strong New Year atmosphere and warms the way for passengers to go home

In addition to the special experience on the special train, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and performances in the railway station squares and waiting halls in Luoyang, Xinxiang and other places in Henan Province, there are also a strong New Year atmosphere to the journey.

In the waiting room of Luoyang Longmen Station, the interesting Heluo drum performance won applause from passengers. On the other hand, many travelers, under the guidance of paper-cutting artists, completed exquisite paper-cutting works by themselves.

In the square of Xinxiang High-speed Railway East Station, cultural performances such as Zhongzhou drums, grand flat tunes and dry boat dances were performed one after another, attracting passengers to stop and watch. In the waiting hall, various intangible cultural heritage handicrafts such as paper cutting, cloth tigers, and hairy monkeys also attracted many passengers to take photos and check in.