The grinch who stole Chinese New Year’s Eve: China has canceled Chinese New Year’s Eve as a public holiday, possibly because its Mandarin name sounds a lot like ‘cancel Xi’

If the gossip is correct, Chinese citizens no longer have to fear setting out to celebrate the Year of the Dragon with their families but accidentally deposing their beloved head of state instead, although deletion of the holiday may well be more to do with asserting the Chinese Communist Party’s preeminence over tradition.