The Chinese Spring Festival - Do You Know How To Celebrate It?

The Chinese Spring Festival, also called the Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, is the most important and longest ancient holiday in China. Its tradition started thousands of years ago. The name is derived from the lunar calendar of the Chinese.

If you are asked to join a cultural celebration or gathering of a Chinese family, you need to learn their customs and celebrate with them the proper way. This is one significant means for you to have a social interaction with the Chinese, since the celebration of the Chinese New Year is very important to them.

The Chinese New Year takes place on the first day of the Chinese year - that's the first day of the first month. It concludes on the 15th day, which is also celebrated as the Chinese Lantern Festival. The practice is as old as the country itself, dating back from thousands of years ago. The celebration is a great representation of how the Chinese people behave, and the things which they strongly believe in.

The Chinese New Year celebration broadly varies in other regions in China. Their ways of commemorating it is based primarily on regional customs and practices. The Chinese spend their money on decorations, food, gifts, and other things. As part of their practice, families will carefully clean the entire house in a systematic way as a means of driving bad luck and misfortune away, and to also invite prosperity and good luck in.

Windows and doors of many houses are decorated with red paper cut-outs and couplets. They represent happiness, wealth and longevity. On the Chinese New Year eve, families have a feast which includes delicious Chinese dishes such as ducks, pigs, chicken, and sweets. The night is then ended with firework displays. The next day, children customarily greet their parents a happy new year, and wish them good health. As a treat, children receive money placed in red envelopes.

The Chinese New Year is a very special occasion. It's the time when people reconcile and leave bitterness behind. It's also the time when people just enjoy each other's company and wish everyone peace, love and success.

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