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...
Lunar New Year celebration hosted by China's UN mission highlights cultural traditions Actors perform the lion dance during the Lunar New Year celebration at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Jan. 24, 2025. The Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations hosted a Lunar New Year...
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...
After half a month's busy time with a house spring-clean and holiday shopping, the festivities kick off on the New Year's Eve, and last 15 days, until the full moon arrives with the Lantern Festival. Scroll down and let's look through the core traditions and practices of the Chinese ...
Over 100 foreign expats gathered in Xiamen for an amazing Chinese cultural experience. They explored the rich traditions of the Chinese New Year by crafting lacquered fans, making Chinese knots, and trying their hand at calligraphy.■ You may like Xinjiang's outbound power transmission hits record...
Many in China argue that “Lunar New Year”amounts toa form of culturalappropriation,obscuringthe fact that the tradition firstemergedin ancient China. 许多中国人认为,“农历新年”是对文化的挪用,掩盖了这一传统最初源于古...
People of the Lisu ethnic minority group in Longchuan County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, celebrated their traditional Kuoshi Festival on Monday. The festival is equivalent to the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival celebrated by Han people.
Meanwhile, the Taibo Temple Fair in Wuxi,Jiangsu, renowned for its historical roots and rich cultural significance, also played a vital role in the 2025 Chinese New Year celebrations. Through an online digital exhibition, a thousand-year-old scroll of the fair...
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....
immigrants consolidated their urban enclave at Sydney's Haymarket precinct in the 1920s, 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 ...