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  "contentHtml": "\n<p>As the countryside of Anhui prepares for the most important festival of the year, red lanterns are strung along the village lanes, firecrackers echo in the distance, and every home is alive with anticipation. For me, it’s not just a return home — it’s a reconnection with my roots, and now, a chance to share it all with my husband Flo. Watching him experience these customs for the first time — helping paste spring couplets on our door, learning to wrap dumplings beside my grandmother, or awkwardly joining in the family toasts — makes everything feel new again, even to me.</p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-type-video is-provider-youtube\"><div>\n<iframe title=\"CHINESE NEW YEAR (Spring Festival) with my family | EP7, S2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/2HJ_W2PGMu4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div></figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The heart of it all is togetherness. Our family gathers around a long wooden table, filled with dishes that each carry meaning: fish for abundance, sweet rice cakes for progress, and my mother’s signature braised pork that brings everyone back home, no matter where we’ve been. Laughter fills the room between stories, kids run between the legs of elders, and Flo does his best to keep up with the Anhui dialect flying around him. 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