Chinese New Year Culture

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Chinese New Year Culture

• By Mackenzie Tuttle

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Preparing for Chinese New Year

• The day before Chinese New Year, Chinese people
  clean their house thoroughly and put away all the
  brooms, to keep the bad spirits away and the good
  spirits to stay.

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Superstitions on Chinese New Year

• The day before Chinese New Year, Chinese people
  take a bath, because they dont bathe on Chinese
  New year. They believe it keeps the good luck
  from washing away.

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Red Envelopes

• On Chinese New Year, Chinese parents give their
  children red envelopes filled with money. These
  envelopes usually have symbols on them that
  symbolize luck and wealth. In Chinese, the
  envelopes are called Hong Bao.

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Chinese Zodiac

• Chinese zodiac are animal symbols that are used
  on Chinese New Year. There are twelve of them.
  They are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon,
  snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
  Each animal represents a year. They start with
  ox, and once they are finished with all the
  animals, they start all over again.

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What day is Chinese New Year on?

• Chinese New Year is on a different day every
  year. The date is determined by the lunar
  calendar. Few people can read this calendar
  still, because we dont really use it anymore.

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What do people eat on Chinese New Year

• On Chinese New Year Chinese people eat lots of
  food. Some of the traditional dishes are jiao
  zi, (dumplings) nian gao, (sticky rice pudding)
  and noodles to represent long life. Some
  families eat at midnight so they will have money
  at the changing of the year.

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The Lantern Festival

• During Chinese New Year there is a Lantern
  Festival. It is a very big celebration in China.
  Everyone in China makes tons of lanterns and
  they hang them everywhere.

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The Last Day of Chinese New Year

• On the last day of Chinese New Year, the Chinese
  people have a big parade called the Lunar New
  Year Dragon Parade. It has many colorful dragons
  that walk up and down the streets. People set
  off firecrackers to symbolize the end of Chinese
  New Year.

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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival
• http//www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/ch
  inese_new_year.html
• http//chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/top
  icsub1.htm
• http//www.123newyear.com/chinese-new-year/chinese
  -newyear-end.html