Tales of Fortune | The history of Chinese New Year
One of the most popular activities on the Chinese New Year observed the custom of Hong Bao.
This involves small gifts red envelopes filled with lucky money.
These envelopes are given to children by married couples.
The color red is considered to bring good fortune, and the money inside the envelope is used by them to buy holiday treats.
On the eve of Chinese New Year, people clean their houses with the belief that it will help them get rid of the bad luck and get the house ready to accept good luck in the coming year.
The Chinese decorate their windows and doors with signs and posters with the word fu engraved on them, meaning good luck and happiness.
The flowers are also used to decorate homes, because they indicate the coming of spring.
The Chinese are engaged in the lantern paper craft not only to decorate their homes during the New Year festival, but also to enjoy the lantern festival that follows the New Year celebrations.
Families not only light but also lanterns hang them on walls or poles to be used in lanterns shows.
2015 is the year of the sheep as Chinese while the Chinese decorate their homes during this time, they are safe to use sheep numbers in their decorations.
One of the popular traditions of Chinese New Year is to present your loved gifts that are symbols of good luck and prosperity.
Most adult gifts filled red envelopes of money to members of the younger family, relatives and beneficiaries bow three times to show respect when accepting donations.
It is a custom not to open the envelopes until the recipient leaves the house of the person who offered this adults also offer gifts wrapped in red blankets to members of the unmarried family.
The Chinese visit their relatives houses and have a big party with eight to nine dishes, since they are considered lucky numbers.
Some dishes normally consumed during this festival are dumplings, noodles long, and oranges Noodles symbolize long life and oranges are a sign of completeness sticky rice cakes and sweets are consumed during this period.
A bowl of sticky rice is offered to the god of the kitchen as a thank you dinner glutinous rice dumplings served with brown sugar and sugar soup are also offered to the god to please her The Kitchen God is awarded by the Emperor the sky, Yu Huang, to monitor every family throughout the year.
To show their respect, the Chinese decorate their kitchen with new paper pictures of the kitchen god annually Once thanksgiving dinner is finished, the image of God is burned to return to heaven.
Wearing new clothes is one of the traditions of Chinese New Year The Chinese try to wear red clothing because they believe that the color helps get rid of evil spirits.
But they avoid wearing black clothes they see black as a sign of death, they also cut their hair to make a fresh start for the coming year.
The Chinese New Year has a special significance for the business houses they offer a special prayer to the second day of the festival, especially if they are planning to start a business at this time of year.
They believe that by doing so they will be blessed with good fortune and prosperity A highlight of the celebration of Chinese New Year is the preparation of the package tray which is octagonal or circular.
This plate comes with an assortment of foods like sweet fruit, coconut, winter melon, water chestnut and lotus seeds Moreover, it can have carrots and tangerines The goal is to wish a soft start in the coming year.
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