Arguably the festival with the most cultural significance in Hong Kong,Chinese New Yearcelebrates the start of the Chinese lunisolar calendar year,marking the end of a cold, dark winter and welcoming spring. Enter the Year of the Snake with your best foot forward, andif you play your cards r...
Chinese New Year: Customs & Traditions The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year—and more commonly known as the Spring Festival (Chūnjié) in China—has become one of the world's top five most celebrated festivals. It isn't just celebrated in China. Other East Asian and...
New Year pictures Xu Jiahui, an intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Liangping Woodblock New Year Pictures, colours a New Year Picture in Liangping District of southwest China's Chongqing, Jan. 14, 2025. Hanging New Year pictures is one of the folk activities for Chinese people to celebra...
Chinatown has boomed into a cultural hub of multiple Asian communities, also attracting tens of thousands of visitors to pack this region on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year -- the Spring Festival.
Then natural decorations such as pine branches, plum blossoms, and bamboo play a special role in preparing for the New Year celebration. Mexico: If you’re looking for odd New Years cultural traditions around the world, Mexican tradition suggests throwing water out the window and opening the ...
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, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important festival in the Chinese calendar and is celebrated by Chinese communities worldwide. It is a time for family reunions, feasts, and vibrant cultural traditions that have been passed down through generat...
Chinese traditions and customs for the new year "Guo Nian Hao" — which means "Happy New Year" — is a common Chinese New Year greeting, Chen said. Chinese also greet each other with blessings such as 恭喜发财 ("gōngxǐ fācái" in Mandarin) or ("Kung hei fat choi" in Cantonese), ...
Chinese New Year Guide | Traditions, Superstitions, Vocab and Experiences. A complete guide to Chinese New Year from numerous perspectives.
Inscribed in 2024 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Held on the first day of the tenth lunar month, the Qiang New Year Festival is an occasion for the Qiang people of China...