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With exciting Chinese New Year carousing taking place from Sydney to San
Francisco. Youll have an abundance of prospects to express your good wishes
and respect if you know how to say Happy New Year in Chinese!
That is the most celebrated festival of Chinese tradition. This festival has
celebrated according to the lunar calendars new moon of the first month. That is
the time for family get-togethers and mouthwatering extensive meals.
Chinese New Year festival has celebrated half of the world. It has celebrated in
Asian countries Singapore and China. As well as in Chinatowns, with a leg on
each side of New York City to San Francisco. Our todays article has also based
on Happy New Year Chinese. In which we will try to discuss comp lete Chinese
tradition, who they celebrate their festivities and even some important things
about their festivals that you dont know. So if you are interested to know about
different cultures and their events then dont go anywhere. Stay with us in this
article and continue reading.
Even though, the first fifteen days of the new month are the most experiential.
First, 15 days of Chinese New Year are very consecutive days, and the festival
ends with the Lantern Festival. Arrangements take place for weeks before New
Year to make sure that the New Year. Because Chinese people think that New
Year comes with luck and prosperity.
Happy Chinese New Year is an occasion when families get together, share plenty
of food, and set the swiftness for the New Year. They do a lot of fireworks in their
cities and homes to frighten unlucky spirits. And everywhere use red color
because they think that red color is the religious and lucky color. Even they use
red color underwear. Elders of families give small gifts and money to their kids in
the red colored envelope. And also a variety of statistics from history are
privileged.
Gong Xi Fa Cai:
Gong Xi Fa Cai speaks it as gong zee fah Tsai. The meaning of gong xi is
congratulations, and Fa Cai means may you become rich person soon. In spirit,
you wish one prosperity and joy in the New Year festival. Usually, employees of
organizations and also owners are also using gong xi fa cai to wish Happy New
Year Chinese.
Xin Nian Kuai Le:
Xin Nian Kuai Le is a Chinese word and says it as sheen neean kwai luh. The
meaning of kuai leis joyous or happy and Xin Nian meanings are new year.
Xin Nian Kuai le is an enormous technique to wish happy New Year in Chinese to
acquaintances without using an orientation of money.
According to Lantern Festival, Chinese festival lasts from the first day of the new
month to the fifteenth day. But unfortunately, according to some modern lifestyles
and work policies, a lot of peoples cannot get a lot of holidays to spend and
celebrate the festival.
In Taiwan, the first five days have celebrated as national holidays. But the
employees of Singapore and Mainland China get just 2 to 3 days holiday from
their government.
New Year is also a festival in which we get a chance to leave problems of the
previous year behind. And start a new and fresh year of life. That is why Chinese
people buy new clothes and many decoration things to clean up their house.
Houses have decorated with red colors banners, and on these flags, many kinds
of auspicious couplets have written on them. They hang these types of banners
near to the doorway. And they believe that it will help to bring the best luck to
their house.
Red envelopes have pronounced in the Chinese language as hng bo. These
events have given to kids and unmarried teenagers. But married duos also give
red envelopes of gift or money to their parents.
They set money in the envelopes. But the money must be in even numbers not in
odd. Specific numbers, for example, four have considered as bad luck. So the
sum amount should not be one of these wretched numbers. Four has considered
the number of death, so a red colored envelope should never hold $4, $40, $400
or so on.
Wicked spirits are supposed to be determined away by the shrill noise. So Happy
New Year Chinese is a very big festivity. Long threads of firecrackers are put off
all through the festival. There have many exhibitions of firecrackers lighting up the
twilight the heavens.
Some nations, for example, Malaysia and Singapore confine the use of
firecrackers. But Mainland China and Taiwan still permit the nearly unobstructed
use of fireworks and firecrackers.
Chinese Zodiac:
The Chinese zodiac calendars every 12 years, and every lunar year has
remembered with the name of an animal. For example:
From January 28, 2017, to February 18, 2018, will be recognized as Rooster.
Rabbit is the most famous year and celebrated from 20 February 2023 to 08
February 2024.
The most significant event of whichever Chinese New Years Eve is the yearly
Reunion ceremonial dinner. Dishes are full of unique red meats are served up the
dining tables. As a leading itinerary for dinner and contributing for the New Year.
This banquet is equivalent to Thanksgiving dinner in the America and distantly
related to Christmas dinner. Just like in other nations with a ma jority of Christians.
In Chinese culture first day is celebrated as the welcoming to the deities who
comes from heaven to earth. Officially they start arriving at the time of midnight.
That is a customary practice with a few fireworks, firecrackers and burn bamboo
sticks. It helps them more to make as much of noise as feasible to hound off the
evil spirits. As summarized by nian of which the phrase guo nian had derived.
Majority of Buddhists refrain from meat utilization on the first day of New Year.
Because they believe that if they will do that, then it is making the sure long life
for them. Some of them think that using knives and lighting fires to be terrible luck
on New Years Day. So, all food that they serve is made two to three days before
New Year. On the first day of New Year, Chinese did not broom their houses.
Because they think that it is not a good fortune symbolically, they did not sweep
away.
Happy New Year Chinese 2 nd day has considered the start of the year. Traditional
Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; and pinyin: kinin. At this day married
daughters visits their parents houses, their close friends houses and also
relatives to wish them Happy New Year. According to Chinese tradition there
wedded daughters cannot visit their birth families easily.
At the time of Chinas imperial era, the jobless people and beggars circulate from
one family to another and hold one picture of their God of Wealth. They loudly
shout that Cai Shen Dao! The meaning of Cai Shen Dao is the God of Wealth
is comes at your house. Families who are in the house give to messengers lucky
money as a reward for the happy news. Business mans also starting their
business on the second day of the New Year. Because they think that if they open
their business on that day, then it will be blessed good luck for them and wealth in
their business for the year.
The third day of New Year is recognized as red mouth (pinyin: Chku, Chinese:
). Chikou is also identified Chicagos Day (pinyin: Chgur; Chinese:
). Chicago, exact meanings are red dog. And it is a nickname of the God
of Blazing Wrath (pinyin: Bio n zh shn; Chinese: ). Villagers rural
maintain the folklore of flaming paper hand-outs over waste fires.
On that day it is supposed unlucky to visit or guest any house. In 1960s rural
Hong Kongs Hakka villagers called that day as Day of the Poor Devil. Also, they
said that everyone should stay at home on that day. This is also believed an
auspicious day to visit the place of worship of the God of Wealth and have ones
future told.
Those communities who celebrate all the 15 holidays of New Year, they think the
4 th day is when corporate spring dinners.
Other regions that have a more extended Chinese New Year festival will
commemorate and salutation the gods that had previously sent on this day.
The fifth day of New Year has considered the birthday of the God of Wealth. In
northern areas of China, their populations eat dumplings and jiaozi on the
morning of powu. Businesses conventionally re-open on the next day means on
the sixth day In Taiwan, by escorted firecrackers.
Usually, in China, the people of China shoot firecracke rs on the 5 th day to take
attention Guan Yus. Thus guaranteed his good fortune and favor for the New
Year.
Traditionally the seventh day of New Year is known as Renri (the general
persons birthday). They think that the seventh day is that day when everyone
raised one year older. In Southeast Asia, the overseas of Chinese communities,
for example, Singapore and Malaysia they used specific food. 7 th day is also that
day when everyone tries to eat yusheng and tossed raw fish salad. They eat
these foods because they think that it will increase their prosperity and wealth.
That is another day to avoid eating meat for a lot of Chinese Buddhists. Because
according to Buddhists religion, on that day Sakra was born. In Buddhist lo rd of
the devas cosmology who is similar to the Jade Emperor.
The eighth day of the New Year:
This has considered the birth of the Jade Emperor, and according to that, they
organized a big family dinner on the eve. According to them, Jade Emperor is a
lord of Heaven. Normally people come back to work by the eighth day. So the
Store title-holder will host a dinner/lunch with their workers. This is the way of
thanking their workforce for the occupation that they have prepared for the whole
year.
On this day imminent 12 midnight, Hokkien people arrange for the Jade Emperor
ritual. Hokkien: Pi Thi-kong throughout which anger has burnt and food
presentations made to the Jade Emperor also to Zao Jun. The God of kitchen
reports every familys balance sheet to the Jade Emperor.
On the eighth day, several people will hold a formal prayer after midnight.
Especially in Malaysia, communities beam fireworks, relatively more than the
firework of first day celebrations. You can also witness these practice of Bai Ti
Gong in Singapore.
New Years ninth day is a day when offering prayers in the Daoist Pantheon for
the Jade Emperor of Heaven. This day has importance due to the birth date of
Jade Emperor. This day was pronounced as Ti Kong Dan, Thi-kong Tan,
Hokkien: , Ti Kong Si, Hokkien: , Thi-kong Si. And also said that
Pai Ti Kong, Hokkien: , Pi Thi-kong and too significant to Hokkiens. Also,
that day is more important and significant to the first day of the Chinese New
Year.
Tenth day:
Fifteenth day:
New Years 15 th day is celebrated as Yuanxiao Festival, pinyin: Yun xio ji,
traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: . And also famous as
Shangyuan Festival pinyin: Shng yun ji; traditional Chinese: ; simplified
Chinese: . Or also Lantern Festival is known as Chap Goh Mei Chinese:
; in Fujian dialect, literally: the fifteen-night pinyin: Shwmng.