Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world. It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year. The exact data of  the Spring Festival on the western calendar changes from year to year. However, Chinese New Year takes place between January 1 and February  19. On the Chinese  calendar every year has an animal’s name. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, roster, dog and pig.

 

Do you know whats the animal this year?

 

The Chinese New year have formed some relatively fixed customs and habits, and many still generation today.

Spring Festival couplet  贴对联

Spring Festival couplets on, also call spring posts, couplet, subsidiary, TaoFu etc, it with neatly, dual, concise, delicate words describe era background, to express good wishes, is Chinas peculiar form of literature. Every Spring Festival, no matter the cities or the countryside, every household will select a pair of bright red couplets stuck on the door, for the festival increases festive atmosphere. This custom plays in song dynasty, in the Ming dynasty in qing dynasty, Spring Festival couplets prevailed, the thoughts and artistry had the very big enhancement, LiangZhang torque write the couplets monograph trap couplet plexus words "on the couplet origin and characteristic of various works are discussed.

Lucky money  压岁钱

Happy New Year, Spring Festival elders will be prepared to junior, it is said that the New Years money money can be pressed down XieSui, because "age" and "was" homophonic, junior get lucky money can spend a year in peace. New Years money has two, one is the color rope threading platted a dragon, on the foot of the bed, the records in the age of yanjing record ", Another kind is the most common, namely by the parents with red paper parcel to childrens money. Money can be paid in junior after public shangji, yi ke on New Years eve child fell asleep, by parent yourself on child stealing under her pillow.

Folk think points New Years money for children, when the evil spirit evil or "nian" to hurt the child, the child can use the money for them and turn evil bribes to achish. QingRen WuManYun "lucky money" poems cloud: "100 money wear color line length, cent come again from the collection, consult firecrackers pillow talk xiaos price, add gentle night busy." It seems that lucky money set on economicsystem childishness, and the childs New Years money is mainly used to buy firecracker, toys and sweets festivals such as wants.

Now the New Years money for junior distributed elders still popular, pressure old custom from dozens of the amount of the one to several hundred dollars, these New Years money was children used to buy books and learning supplies, new fashion for New Years money endowed with new contents.

ShouSui 除夕守岁

New Years eve ShouSui is the most important festival customs in one of the common ShouSui activities, has a long history. The earliest recorded in the western zhou place weekday volunteers ": on Chinese New Years eve, each paleotopography, giving called" parafeed years old;" Especially to invite, called "dont years old;" Pecking gather to drink, praise complete, called "points years old;" Everybody all night sleepless, waiting for the dawn, call yue "shou sui".

"Night even double age 12 days,", just before dawn points on New Years eve, the family reunion together, eat meal, a.m. candles or the lamp and sat beside prattle, waiting for furnace, all-night vigil year time, a symbol of all evil BingYi according to run away, hot looking forward to a New Year luck.

 

Happy New Year to every one. And we will have a weeks holidy.

So interesting, so meaningful.

Happy new year!

Happy new year!