Happy New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year!

The Chinese Spring Festival, also called the Lunar New Year, is the most important and festive celebration in China.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival in China. It not only embodies the ideological beliefs, ideals, aspirations, live entertainment and cultural psychology of Chinese but also is a carnival display of blessings and disasters, food and entertainment activities.

During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebration activities are held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details, with strong regional characteristics.

The celebration activities during the Spring Festival are very rich and varied, including lion dance, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, flower street shopping, flower lantern viewing, gong and drum tour, cursor flag, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, dancing spring, as well as walking on stilts, running dry boats, and dancing Yangko. etc.  

During the Spring Festival, posting Spring Festival couplets, staying up, having a family reunion dinner, and paying New Year’s greetings can be found in various places, but due to different customs and customs, the subtleties have their own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse in form and rich in content, and they are a concentrated display of the essence of the life and culture of China.

                             Lion Dance                                                                                                                  Exhibit Of Lantern                                                             

Meaning and Symbolism of Chinese New Yea                                                                                                                                                                   Family Reunion Dinner 

The Spring Festival symbolizes farewell to the old year and welcomes the new, blessings, reunion, prosperity, etc.

The Spring Festival is a day to get rid of the old and bring forth the new. Although the Spring Festival falls on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the activities of the Spring Festival do not stop on the first day of the first month.

From the beginning of the new year to the end of the year, people have been "busy for the new year": offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, doing spring festival shopping, decorating lanterns and festoons, etc.

The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony and family reunion, and it is also a carnival and eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom.

Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese Spring Festival as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction. 

The Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four major traditional festivals in China.