Dumplings are indispensable for northerners, while rice cakes for southerners. The night is spent enjoying this feast along with cheerful family talk and laughter. Read more Chinese New Year Foods. From newborn babies to teenagers, luck money will be given by seniors, wrapped in red packets in the hope of dispelling evil spirits from the kids. CNY to notes are commonly sealed in a red envelope, while there are big ones with up to CNY 5, especially in the rich southeast regions.
Besides a small disposable amount, most of the money is used to buy the kids toys, snacks, clothes, stationery, or saved for their future educational expenditure. Read more about Red Envelope. Send Greetings and Red Envelopes through Wechat. With the popularity of instant messaging apps, greeting cards are seldom seen. From the morning to the midnight of the New Year's Eve, people use the app Wechat to send various text messages, voice messages, and emojis, some of which featuring the New Year's animal sign, to exchange greetings and good wishes.
Digital red envelopes are becoming considerably popular and a big red envelope in a group chat always starts a happy grabbing game. The 4. Although the audience becomes more and more critical of the programs, that never stops people turning on the TV on time. The delightful songs and words act as a habitual background to a reunion dinner, for after all it's been a tradition ever since Setting off Firecrackers at There is New Year bell on the TV gala at , but you can hardly hear it since there would be loud bangs of firecrackers , from to and even later.
Chinese people have by long tradition set off firecrackers, originally to scare away the legendary monster Nian which emerges at midnight. In recent years, many urban areas have a firecracker ban or set special area or period for fireworks, to prevent accidents and threats to air quality.
After a day at home, people start to visit relatives from the second day of the New Year. The married couples go to visit the wife's parents' home on the second day. The following days will be spent in various relatives' houses. For some extended families in rural areas, half a month is barely enough to visit everyone.
People bring gifts to one another's homes and give red envelopes to the kids. That's a ritual. Folk Shows and Temple Fairs — Lasting to 15th day of 1st lunar month. In urban areas, there are bustling temple fairs with religious worship, costume performances, games, and local snacks.
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Checkout our calendar for the full New Year schedule! What's Your Chinese Zodiac Sign? Traditions Chinese New Year Taboos to Avoid Make sure your new year is filled with good fortune by avoiding these 10 new year taboos! Big families including several generations sit at round tables and enjoy the food and time together. Dishes with lucky meanings must be included in the dinner such as fish, dumplings, Nian Gao sticky rice cake , and spring rolls.
Many New Year foods are symbolic. The Gala starts at 8 pm and ends when the Chinese New Year arrives at midnight. It features traditional, folk, and pop performances from China's best singers, dancers, and acrobats.
Parents usually give their children red envelopes after the reunion dinner, wishing them health, growth, and good studies in the coming year. Money in red envelopes is believed to bring good luck, as red is China's lucky color, so it's called lucky money. In the past, Chinese people used to stay up all night, but now most stay up only until midnight firecrackers and fireworks die down.
Chinese people believe that what they do on the first day of the lunar year will affect their luck during that year. The moment New Year arrives there is a cacophony of fireworks and firecrackers all around, even in rural China.
Families stay up for this joyful moment. In many rural areas, it's customary to set off firecrackers before dinner, each day from New Year's Eve to day 3 of CNY.
It's believed that the louder the firecrackers, the better and luckier it will be for business and farming in the coming year. Kids, with mini firecrackers in one hand and a lighter in another, cheerfully celebrate by throwing the small explosives one-by-one on the street whilst plugging their ears. It is customary for the younger generation to visit their elders, and wish them health and longevity.
In recent years, a new way to do New Year greetings has appeared, especially among the young. People who are too busy to visit their friends or relatives send a New Year's card, a WeChat red envelope, or a text message instead. Lion dances and dragon dances are also seen on New Year's Day. Once very popular in China, they are reappearing in many places. They are more popular in Hong Kong and Macau.
Beijing's temple fairs are the places to go for traditional activities in Beijing. Such activities are held in parks from the first day of the lunar year to the last when celebrating the Lantern Festival. Generally, parks and temples are the best places to go for festive celebrations at Chinese New Year. They bring gifts and red envelopes to families and relatives. On this day, people offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth, wishing for a luckier and more prosperous year.
From the third to the seventh day of New Year, Chinese people visit relatives and friends. On the third day, some people go to visit the tombs of their relatives, but others think being outside there on the third day is inauspicious, because evil spirits roam around. The first house-sweep of the New Year: Chinese people don't clean their homes during the first two days of New Year, as sweeping then is believed to sweep away the good luck accrued by the litter of firecrackers, red paper, wrappers, and other evidence of celebration on the floor.
People normally return to work on the eighth day.
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