What Do We Do in Chinese New Year

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
过年好

Wear new red cloths, the hanging decoration is the Chinese charater of "Spring"(春), we called Chinese New Year "Spring Festival". The small charater is "Luck"(福)

Decorate the window with red paper cutting of the animal of the year - this year is the year of the pig.

Light firecrakers - Year is called "Nian(年)" in Chinese. It was said "Nian" was a bad monster, people need to light the firecrakers to scare it away in order to have a happy and lucky new year.

Watch the Chinese New Year TV show hosted by CCTV together with family, although people said it is boring, but it is like a tradition back from 20 years before when most of the Chinese families had TV set first time ... ...

Make dumplines while watch TV together and eat dumplines in the morning of the New Year's day. We say eat "YuanBao', because the shape of the dumpline is like "Yuan Bao", the ancient Chinese money.

Paste New Year Scrolls (Spring Festival couplets) on gateposts or door panels

Paste New Year picture, this is FU (luck), the one sitting in the middle; LU (high post emoulument), the right one; SHOU(long live), the right one with big forehead; and XI (celebration), the kids.

Go to the Festival Temple Fair:

Buy flowers and pinwheels

Watch old style parade

Special stuff in the temple fair: sugarcoated haws on a stick, candy animal and cucurbit with the Chinese charactor of "Luck" (福)