Fish for Chinese New Year dinner is most often prepared steamed and whole. Don’t worry if you can’t finish it—leaving a little left over further enhances one’s surplus. In other parts of the world, these are th...
AN ongoing exhibition on the first floor of the Shanghai Library features Chinese New Year food traditions and dining customs. When people talk about Chinese New Year’s food, dumplings, fish and a reunion dinner usually spring to mind. But, China’s most important festival is not m...
For many people, Chinese New Year is the most important celebration of the year. And one of the most important Chinese New Year traditions is the New Year’s Eve dinner. Chinese communities everywhere do their best to join...
Pasting Spring Festival couplets are one of the oldest traditions of the new year. It is written in black ink on red paper. Spring Couplets are hung on gateposts or door panels on Lunar New Year's Eve. They express people's best wishes for the New Year....
Chinese New Year traditions regarding greeting are not like kissing, embrace, and handshaking in western countries. In the past, the first thing for a Chinese New Year visit started with kowtowing to the elders. No matter how old you are, if there is someone older than you, you need to ...
Family is the basis of the Chinese society, which is seen through the significance placed on the New Year’s Eve dinner (年夜饭) or Reunion dinner (团年饭). 家庭是中国社会的基础,这一点从除夕晚宴(年夜饭或团年饭)被赋予的意义可以看出。
Chinese New Year Dishes TraditionsChinese New Year traditional dinner Chinese New Year feast Family is the basis of the Chinese society, which is seen through the significance placed on the New Year’s Eve dinner (年夜饭- Nián yèfàn) or Reunion dinner (团年饭 - tuán niánfàn). This ...
From one week preceding the festival to the 15th day after, many Chinese New Year customs are widely observed for thousands of years. The family reunion dinner, eating dumplings, and setting off firework are the must-dos that you might know. What else interesting do the Chinese do? The ...
Chinese New Year is full of traditions when it comes to what you should serve to family and guests.It is a very important part of Chinese festival culture.Certain dishes are eaten during the Chinese New Year because people think they bring good luck for the coming year. Some symbolic meani...
A reunion dinner is a time for the family to celebrite the New Year while the Eve of the New Year.dumplings should be the most popular food in the reunion dinner,it means “sleep together and have sons”.After dinner,it is time for all families to sit up over the night and having ...