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The Chinese new year; Ch nji; or ; , N ngl X nn year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival is the most important traditional Chinese holidays It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year's Day, celebrated on first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, namely the day of the second new moon after the day the winter solstice occurs unless an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the period before the new Year†in such a case, the new year falls on the day of the third new moon after the solstice the next time this happens in 2033 is the Chinese new year period ends with the lantern festival, the fifteenth day of the month.
Legend has it that in ancient China, Nian Nyehn was a predatory beast devouring the man who could infiltrate houses silently The Chinese soon learned that Nian was sensitive to loud noises and the color red, and they fear further with explosions, fireworks and the liberal use of the color red nationally These customs led to the first New Year celebrations.
Celebrated internationally in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and ethnic groups such as Mongols, Koreans, Chinese Miao Hmong and Vietnamese which were influenced by Chinese culture in terms of religious worldview and philosophy, language and culture in general Chinese New year is also the time when the largest human migration takes place when Chinese all around the house back the world on the eve of Chinese New year reunion dinner for their families.
Traditionally, red packets, or the sh went during Chinese New celebrations Year of married couples to unmarried usually children Chinese New Year is celebrated with fireworks, dragon dances and lion dances usually play mahjong is played in some families.
A reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve where members of the family, near and far, come together to celebrate the dinner on New Year's Eve is very large and traditionally includes chicken fish is included, but not gnawed completely and remains stored for the night, as the Chinese expression or nni nyuy, or every year there are fish remains is a homophone for phrases that might mean to be blessed every year or have profit every year since there is also the pronunciation for profit a black hair type -like algae, fat choy pronounced in Cantonese, is also featured in many dishes since its name appears similar to the Hakka prosperity will Kiu Nyuk and Ngiong fu Because the TIU things are alike, the belief is that having a lead to another, as the old aphorism child step on a crack, break your mother's back.
New Year's day is also celebrated in the family usually family members get together on the morning of New Year's Day is this gathering that red envelopes are given to single family members The beneficiary's age is not material receiving the envelope married couples usually give two red envelopes on the first new year after being married it is because the woman has a husband and a present in the following years, they can give a couple.
red envelopes traditionally consisted of amounts that were considered as multiple Amounts 2 two pieces of 1 to 20 were acceptable even multiple such as 20 1 10 2 are also acceptable, however, this is not strictly adhered donation was originally a token amount, but these days it is not uncommon to receive large sums in wealthy families in some families this tradition has evolved in the practice of substituting instrument stocks like money, bonds, funds joint investment up to big money.
red envelopes are also given to unmarried visitors but the sums are often smaller than the envelope given to family members or close friends.
The seventh day is traditionally known as the birthday of the common man, the day when everyone grows one year older He is also the day when tossed fish salad, Yusheng, is eaten People gather to launch salad colorful and make wishes for continued wealth and prosperity This is mainly celebrated among the Chinese in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Singapore.
The new year season lasts fifteen days the first week is the most important and most often celebrated with visits to friends and family, as well as good luck greetings The Christmas holidays to the large and colorful Day lanterns in the evening of the 15th day of the month, however, the Chinese believe that the third day of the Chinese New year, it is not appropriate to visit family and friends, and call the day CHEC hao, which means easy to get into the arguments.
The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the Chinese calendar, a lunar calendar The same calendar is used in countries that have adopted the Confucian tradition and Buddhism and in many cultures influenced by the Chinese, including Koreans, Tibetans, Vietnamese and Chinese Bulgars new year pagans begins on the first day of the new year containing a new moon some sources even include new year and ends fourteen days lantern Festival later This occurs when the full moon each lunar month is approximately 29 53 days in duration in the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New year falls on different dates each year, on a date between January 21 and February 21.
The Chinese New Year is often accompanied by raucous greetings, often called J xi NGH one or loosely translated by words or phrases auspicious.
Traditional Chinese; Simplified Chinese ; pinyin X nni NKU it a more contemporary greeting reflects Western influences, it literally translates to Good Home more common year in the west.
Traditional Chinese; Simplified Chinese ; pinyin G NGX f c i; Hokkien Keong Huat chye hee; Cantonese Kung Hei Fat Choi also spelled kung hei fat choy or kung hey fat choy; Kung hee fat choi Hakka, which loosely translates our congratulations and be prosperous often wrongly assumed to be synonymous with happy new year, its use dates back several centuries, with the Cantonese transliteration said to have first entered the English use in the 1800s, for example Although the first two words of this sentence was a legend much historical significance that the congratulatory messages were traded for surviving the ravaging beast of Nian, although in practice in may also involve survive the harsh winter conditions, the last two words were added later as ideas of capitalism and consumption are more important in Chinese societies around the world.
The saying is now commonly heard in English speaking communities for greetings during Chinese New Year in some parts of the world where there is a large Chinese-speaking community, such as Australia, Canada and America, including in other speaking communities with a larger Chinese population, mandarin version tend to prevail especially when several groups of dialects exist, particularly in Malaysia and Singapore many other greetings exist, some of which may be exclaimed aloud to nobody in particular at specific events or actions such as breaking objects in the new year is considered inauspicious, then we can say ng n Su knew immediately, means everlasting peace year after year seems Su Su phonetically similar to the word, the latter which fa it refers to the action of shattering, in a demonstration of the Chinese love to use phonetic models coming with phrases like auspicious therefore neither nni nyuy, meaning aw ish for surplus and good harvests every year, playing on the word to refer also to the significance of the fish, so use it as a slogan for the Chinese new year dishes based on fish or written on tables or graphs and fish hooked on walls or presented as gifts to other circumstances which may trigger the use of these greetings or phrases can be when children greet their elders just before receiving their red packets, when gifts are exchanged during visits to temples or even when throwing the shredded ingredients Yusheng particularly popular in Malaysia and Singapore.
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