In China, people celebrate(庆祝 ) the Chinese New Year by cleaning their house, making dumplings, or having a big meal with their family. How do people in other countries celebrate their public holidays(公共假期)?In Singapore, we have 11 public holidays every year. On some festivals, such ...
Chinese New Year traditions 1. House CleaningIn the days leading up to Chinese New Year, Chinese families sweep the floors, wash clothes and other things, clean spiders' webs, and dredge ditches.It is traditionally believed that dust represents old things, so cleaning houses means doing away ...
House Cleaning and Decorating – half month before No matter whether in a city apartment or a countryside villa, there must be a diligent housewife exerting all her energies to carry out a thorough clean of the house before Chinese New Year. Sweeping, mopping, wiping, washing… Sometimes the...
Do not clean your house with a broom on the first day of Lunar New Year. Cleaning is a sign of swiping away good luck - so if one has to clean something away, then it must be done after dark. Do not do laundry on Chinese New Year. Doing laundry means washing away of good luck ...
The Spring Festival is a time for cleaning and preparing for the new year. We thoroughly clean our homes to sweep away bad luck and welcome good fortune. We also decorate our houses with red lanterns, couplets, and paper cuttings, as red is believed to bring good luck. Visiting family ...
Before sprucing up the house for Chinese New Year, Chinese families usually get down to cleaning in the days leading up to the celebration. House-cleaning beginning a week before the New Year's Eve. When it comes to“chuxi”, which is the day right before the Spring Festival, family memb...
Little Year (January 22 to 23, 2025): house cleaning Chinese New Year's Eve (January 28, 2025): pasting spring couple and hanging red lantern Lantern Festival (January 19, 2025): joining in the temple fairRead Chinese New Year Celebrations to learn how Chinese people celebrate Chinese New ...
According to the traditional schedule of Chinese New Year preparation, cleaning is done on this day. All vessels, curtains, beddings and every corner need to be cleaned, and people hope to welcome the festival in a clean environment. In Chinese, cleaning the dust means driving away the old ...
Year-end deep cleaning, eating tangyuan. 01/24 Lunar December 25th (腊|臘月二十五 là yuè èr shí wǔ) Welcoming the Jade Emperor (接玉帝 jiē yù dì) Chinese saying:"On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, grind the mill to make tofu." 01/25 Lunar December 26th (腊|臘月...
2. year-end cleaning:年末大扫除 3. drive... away:把...驱赶走 2. New Year Shopping新年购物 After cleaning people will go shopping, from a new piece of furniture to a new plate. Chinese people believe that since this is a new year they should buy a lot of new things. Purchasing new...