Han Han mews for peace after first roar in Year of Tiger

In what has been called the "first war in the Year of the Tiger", a spat between celebrity blogger Han Han and the master of magic Liu Qian (aka Lu Chen) has ended with Han waving a white flag.

He started the war of words soon after the CCTV Spring Festival Gala fizzled out without providing any real fireworks. Apart from the frissons of nostalgia generated by Faye Wong, and The Little Tigers reunion, the only performance worth a cheer appeared to be Liu's "close-up magic" act.

This included inverting a beaker of (product placement alert) Huiyuan juice without wetting himself, a mystifying card trick and a glass table through which coins vanished and reappeared.