Chinese Culture is rich in its culture and traditions . They have their own beliefs and New Year traditions , which they follow ardently. Although the Chinese New Year , Nian, lasts only two or three days including the Chinese New Year’s Eve, the Chinese New Year season extends from the mid-twelfth month of the previous year to the middle of the first month of the new year. A month from the onset of the Chinese New Year, it is supposed to be a good time for business. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration material, food and clothing.
Clothing:
In Chinese tradition, people should new cloths to welcome to new year, c’z the dirt and bad luck should not be brought to the nest year. And normally, people shoule wear traditional styles in the old time, but now, people wear as usual.
Chinese new year clothing
Food:
Dry fruit, nut, fresh fruits and candies are needed as snacks for guests and children. But as the dinner in new year’s eve, it should be very rich, meat, fish and various vegetables are needed, especially fish, c’z in Chinese language, fish has the same pronounciation with “over” or “left”, which means that your family is rich enough and still has food or property left after one year’s consumption.
Chinese New year dinner
Decorations:
Especially in northern China, people will stick the couplet on both sides of the outdoor. The meanings of the characters on the couplet are all the wishes for the coming year. What is more, the paper should be red and the characters shold be written in brush pen with Chinese ink. Here can explain why during the new year festival, you could see most of the decorations are red, c’z in Chinese mind, red is a lucky color.
Chinese couplet
Must do:
People should go back to their home no matter how far away. Because new year festival is a family union time, therefore, all the family members should get together and eat in a round table. As for the “round”, there also has saying, in Chinese, “round” has the meaning of completeness and consummation. And on the new year eve or before, people should take a bath, it means to wash away the dirt and bad luck in the year to welcoming the coming new year.
Must’s do:
Taboos, words such as die, the number of “4″(which has the same pronunciation with die) are stricktly forbiddened during this period. Unholy words to the ancestors are also banned.
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