The Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the Chinese. 

The celebration will start from the New Year's Eve and will last for around 15 days until the middle of the first month.

Preceding days of Chinese new year :

Cleaning your house

We sweep the dust away and discard things we don’t need anymore. We will not clean for at least the first three days of the New Year, we believe such actions will “sweep” or “wash” away our good luck.

Preceding days of Chinese new year :

Put up red spring festival couplets.

Preceding days of Chinese new year :

Go shopping

New year, new things! For the Chinese, new shoes and clothes symbolize a new beginning. We will wear these things after taking a bath on new year’s eve.

New Year Eve's

Reunion dinner

The biggest event of the Chinese New Year's Eve is the annual Reunion dinner'. At that time we need to say good things.We can't say bad things because we believe that is not lucky.

 New Year Eve's

Flower market

After finishing the reunion dinner, the whole family visit the flower markets to pick and buy some flowers and plants for good luck in the upcoming new year.

New Year

Visiting relatives and friends

On New Year's days, married couples or the elderly will give red pockets to unmarried juniors.

Dragon Boat Festival

Legend says after people heard Qu Yuan drowned, they raced to the spot to search him but unable to find his body. People threw rice dumplings and other food into the river to feed the fish. Hoping the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Since then, people commemorated Qu Yuan through dragon boat races, eating rice dumplings on the anniversary of his death, the fifth of the May.