What are the Chinese New Year activities for celebrating this most important festival in the Chinese calendar?
First things first ...
In China, the Chinese New Year is called the Spring Festival.
This is because the first day of Chinese New Year falls on the beginning of spring.
Early spring is a new beginning ...
And 'the beginning of a new year of sowing and reaping.
Best wishes for a good harvest in the year ahead.
(This is the way the Chinese character for "year" was nian2 年).
A reason to celebrate!
Throughout the world, Chinese families ... conditioned Chinese New Year scrolls on both sides of the door,
set off firecrackers (It 's illegal in many Chinese cities now, but people do it anyway)
and married adults give children red envelopes filled with "lucky money".
Chinese New Year activities begin 2-4 weeks before the "big day".
Here's what you can do to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
That 's what Chinese families are all over the world.
1. Clean the house
Select a day and, together with the family, cleaning the house.
This ritual gets rid of bad luck for the year ending and welcomes in good luck for the new year.
2. Send greeting cards
Send greeting cards with new year greetings to friends, relatives and colleagues.
Remember to include your greeting cards in advance!
3. Shopping
Going shopping to buy new clothes for the whole family, food and sweets, and festive decorations at home.
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4. Get ready some red packets.
You'll need them later.
5. Home Decorating
Hang Chinese New Year scrolls called spring couplets on both sides of the door to usher in good wishes for the new year.
cuts pulp of head down well Fotunato "fu" characters, happy children and mandarin oranges on the wall.
Make sure you have vases of flowers in the house during Chinese New Year.
Do more than add a new year atmosphere to the house.
Living plants symbolize growth and flowers represent wealth and prosperity.
Pum blossoms can be arranged together with bamboo and pine trees.
They are distinguished by the strength, longevity and nobility.
Other favorite flowers are willow, azalea, peony and water lily or narcissus.
6. Prepare the reunion dinner
Gather your family together for this most important and sumptuous meal of the year on the eve of Chinese New Year.
Prepare a meal with auspicious dishes like chicken, fish, oysters, dumplings, vegetables and pasta.
They have a sense of prosperity, longevity and abundance.
I put together some recipes for Chinese New Year and a list of what different foods symbolize http://www.living-chinese-symbols.com/chinese-new-year-activities.html
7. Exceed one year
After a hearty meal, stay up late to "pass the year" guo4 nian2 过年, an ancient tradition.
You can watch TV, play cards or chat.
After midnight (or the morning of the Chinese New Year's), give your children red envelopes filled with money (called "lucky money").
Put the red packets under the pillow of children. This is said to ward off evil.
8. Send New Year Greetings
Call up friends or SMS them on the morning of Chinese New Year and wish them a happy new year, good health and prosperity.
Visit the homes of friends and relatives with two big tangerines.
Bring red packets to give to children in the home you are visiting.
These are eight ways to have a roaring Chinese New Year celebration with family and friends!
Otto is the most auspicious number for Chinese people.
It means rich and properous.
Here's to your good health and prosperity for the new year!
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