How Do Chinese People Celebrate the New Year

We have mentioned what people will do before the New Year’s Eve in the article “How Do Chinese Celebrate the China New Year – Part One”, I think it is full of enjoyment and now let continue to know about the culture of traditional festival.
When darkness is falling at New Year’s Eve, people will light lantern and waiting for watching CCTV New Year’s Gala which is beginning in the 1980s and will broadcast four hours until the New Year bell is ringing. During this time people also will prepare a meal and have it in the midnight, in the north China, people would like eating dumplings which symbolized wealth for its shapes like gold nuggets (a kind of money used in the ancient time), also one or two coins will be wrapped in those dumplings and who eat them will good luck in the following year; in the south China, people would like to eat new year cakes or noodles which means increasingly prosperous year in year out and long life. Before eating, every family will explode firecrackers and the New Year begins to unfold amidst the successive noise of firecrackers.
At the first day of New Year, people will get up early than before that means a good spirit in the year. This day is a day for people to visit elder and senior people, in Chinese called “BaiNian”, and the children will be given “red envelops” that wrapped in good luck money by adults. Envelopes are not to be opened until the recipient has left the home of the giver for polite behavior in China. Some people also will present gifts to other elder family in New Year. Many activities will be held on this day, such as temples meetings, dragon dancing or lion dancing.
Chinese New Year’s time change every year because it is dictated by the lunar calendar, and every year will related with an animal according to the Chinese zodiac. It is the tiger year of 2010 after the ox year in 2009, so lots of lucky symbols will decorate with different tigers. Go our store to find New Year symbols.

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