Questions about the Chinese New Year...?

Question

2. What is the legend of the Chinese New Year?

3. What do people eat on New Year's eve and New years day? In the north? In the South?

4. How do people greet eachother on New Year's days?

5. What do people do to celebrate the Chinese New Year?

Answer 1

It's not a legend. It's celebrated to mark the end of Chinese Year, which is based on Lunar Calendar. It's also the end of winter and the beginning of spring.



3. Variety of food, depending on which area of China. Popular dishes include steam dumpling, noodles, red eggs.



4. Happy New Year (Xin Nian Kuai Le), or Have a Prosperous New Year (Gong Xi Fa Cai).



5. Set off fireworks, visit with families and distribute red envelope filled with money (Hong Bao), visit tourist destinations, street parade, visit ancestors grave on the second day (never on the third or first day). The younger people also like to go clubbing and karaoke over night until day break.

Answer 2

2.Chinese New Year has no legend. It is just an event to celebrate the beginning of Spring and the New Year. Family and friend gatherings is the most important part of it all.





3.In all parts of China and in traditional Chinese homes, steamboat is eaten. A large pot of boiling soup is placed in the middle of a table and everybody will gather around it, putting raw food to cook inside the soup.



4.When you meet a person , you must start of with an auspicious greeting. 'Gong Xi Fa Cai' means 'may you have wealth'. 'Bu Bu Gao Shen' is normally said by adults to children, that they may grow up fast to become great people. 'Shen Ti Jian Kang', said by children to adults mostly, to wish them good health. And many more.



5. In the past, people used to let off firecrackers, but the use of firecrackers has been banned in China and other countries with large Chinese populations, because the firecrackers are a fire hazard. Now, married couples will give unmarried people hongbaos. They are red packets with a small amount of money inside. As long as one is married, he or she has to give hongbaos to the unmarried ones.



Hope this helps.

Answer 3

in accordance to the chinese language New year, there are diverse animals for each year and if somebody is born on that distinctive year, the animal symbolizes features that the guy could have. form of like the yank Horoscope (Leo, Scorpio, and so on.) Rat - Rats are pronounced to be inventive, appealing and extremely beneficiant to those they love - despite in the event that they do have a bent to be speedy-tempered and over-severe. they are meant to make stable writers, critics and publicists.

Answer 4

Spring Festival is on January, 1st, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. It is usually called as Chinese Lunar New Year This is the most important festival in China. It origins from Yin Dynasty and Shang Dynasty.



When Spring Festival comes, spring comes as well. Everything comes to life and plants are prosperous. Just having experienced a cold winter, people are so excited to welcome a new spring.



Spring Festival is a happy festival. No matter how far people stay away, they are eager to go home and stay together with their families on this special festival.



The warm atmosphere is not only in the houses, but also in the streets. In many places, lion dances and dragon lantern show are performed during Spring Festival. In some places, people kept the customs of Shehuo performance, visiting flower market, going to the temple fair. During this period, the cities are full of lanterns and the streets are crowded with people. Activities last to the 15th of January, this can be an end of Spring Festival.



Spring Festival is the most important festival for Han Nationality, but some ethnic nationalities also celebrate Spring Festival. They are Man Nationality, Mongol Nationality, Yao Nationality, Zhuang Nationality, Gaoshan Nationality, Bai Nationality, Hezhe Nationality, Hani Nationality, Dawoer Nationality, Dong Nationality, Li Nationality and some other nationalities.



Customs of Spring Festival



Spring Festival is a very old festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to all the Chinese. There are many customs about Spring Festival, and some are still popular.



1. Sweeping



Sweeping in Spring Festival is a very old custom. It started from the time of Yao and Shun. It is said that dust has the same pronunciation with old in Chinese language. So sweeping the dust means to ring out the old year and ring in the new. When Spring Festival comes, people sweep the floor, wash the daily things, clean the spider webs and dredge the ditches. People do all these things happily, in the hope of a good coming year.



2. House decoration



One of the house decoration is to post couplets on doors . On the Spring Festival couplets, times backgrounds are described and good wishes are represented. No matter in urban or rural places, people choose a pair of good Spring Festival couplets to stick on their doors. This adds much happy atmosphere to the traditional Spring Festival.



New Year picture is also widely used for New Year house decoration. The colorful New Year picture adds more happy atmosphere to the new year. New Year picture is an old art form of China. It presents the believes and hopes of Chinese people.



People in north China are used to posting their windows paper-cut during festivals. The new year paper-cut represents the good wishes to the coming year and it decorates Spring Festival quite nice. When sticking the window decoration paper-cuts, people paste large red Fu (a Chinese character) on the door as well. This is an old tradition in China. Fu means good luck and fortune in Chinese, so the action of sticking Fu expresses people's good wishes. Some people like sticking the Fu on its head. In Chinese, standing upside down is dao, and dao has the same pronunciation of come. Sticking the Fu on its head means the good luck and fortune come. This shows the hopes to the coming year.



3. Shousui



Shousui means to stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve. After the great dinner on the New Year's Eve, families sit together and chat with the lanterns lighting on to wait for the New Year's coming. They believe that all the bad luck and diseases are scared and drove away by the lighting lanterns, the good luck will come into their house as well.



4. Setting Firecrackers



On the morning of first day of New Year, the first thing people do in light the firecrackers. The sounds of firecrackers add much happy atmosphere to the Spring Festival. People believe that the great sounds of firecrackers can drive the bad luck away and welcome the good luck in the New Year. This tradition has lasting for more than 2,000 years in China. The amplification of fireworks is getting wider and wider now. People burn it in important festivals or events, such as wedding, house building or bossiness opening. The varieties of fireworks and firecrackers now are very rich, there are many famous places of firecrackers and fireworks production in China, such as Liuyang in Hunan Province, Foshan and Dongrao in Guangdong Province, Yichuna and Pingxiang in Jiangxi Province, Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province and so on. Firecrackers and fireworks producted in these places are famous for the high-quality and various kinds. They sell very well in China, and some are exported to many countries and areas,



5. Bainian: new year greeting



Bainian means to pay someone a courtesy call on New Year's Day or shortly thereafter, usually with a present. On the first day of New Year, people get up very early and dress

Answer 5

i will provide the least info :P



2. there is no legend



3. dumplings or just any good and tasty food they have, the more the better



4. no special greeting



5. get together, have meal, watch TV