Friday, February 18, 2011

The customs of Chinese New Year

There are many interesting Chinese New Year customs, divided into the following - food, clothing, shelter, four parts.

Food - New Year's Eve day, the foods, Leaf Mustard – mean long life,Fish – mean more than mid, dumplings - gold ingots, year cakes - onward and upward in your work , orange – mean good luck, Apple – mean peace in life . The day will be reunited with a family dinner, that the whole family reunion.

Clothes -wearing red and new clothes are mainly based on that auspicious New Year's Eve night, wearing new clothes brought some money, and that auspicious words, such as: May fortunes find their way to you, Happy New Year. New Year's day for the first day, the whole family to Temple to ask for the new year peace,



Living -in the New Year's Eve before, the whole family will use the time to clean house, to sweep out the old year out, and paste in the door couplets pasted on the refrigerator or m drums - full, that is not the next year lack of food. Some families will have flower arrangement on behalf of good luck, welcome the New Year.

Entertainment, usually in the New Year period, we are all a holiday, other than for my family and play fireworks in the evening to celebrate the New Year.

Many customs of the Chinese New Year is also very interesting, but mainly in accordance with traditional practices of each family is different, but the goal is to hope that a new year of hope in the future.

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