chinese festivals - spring festival
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Chinese Festivals
China()
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Spring Festival Lantern Festival ( Longtaitou Festival () Shanghsi Festival () Tomb-sweeping Festival ( Dragon Boat Festival Qi Xi Festival Spirit Festival () Mid-autumn Festival Double Ninth Festival Water Lantern Festival () Winter Solstice Festival () Laba / Conjee Festival ()
Chinese Festivals
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Spring Festival ChnJi
Longest and Most important Festival
Chinese New Year
1stday of 1stLunar Month (; ZhngYu)
ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day
(Chunyun Period): Travel Season The largest human migration
Chinese travel home to have reunion dinners with
their families on Chinese New Year's Eve
migrant workers in China
Overseas Chinese
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Story: Spring Festival
Story: A demon called Nian () .
Nian would come on the first day of New Year
to eat livestock, crops, and even villagers,
especially children.
People Noticed: Nian was scared by a Child wearing Red
Around New Year, people would hang red lanterns and red
spring scrolls on windows and doors
They also used firecrackers to frighten away Nian
Red Lanterns and Firecrackers
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Customs: Spring Festival Spring Cleaning: starts on 28th day of month 12
cleaning sweeps away the bad luck of the preceding year
and makes their homes ready for good luck
Homes are decorated with paper cutouts of Chineseauspicious phrases and couplets
couplets contains hopes for prosperity
Zao Jun(): The Kitchen God
paper effigy or a plaque of Zao Jun and his wife kept above thefireplace in the kitchen in many households
His wife writes down everything that is said in the household over the
year for her husband's report to Jade Emperor
Before new year he is send to Jade emperor by burning his effigy
The lips of Zao Jun are often smeared with honey to sweeten his
words, or to keep his lips stuck together
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Festivities: Spring Festival Chinese New Year's Eve: Ch X()
Annual Reunion Dinner
nin nin yuy () : "may there be surplusesevery year"
Fish (, y):intentionally not finished, and the remaining fish is stored overnight
nin nin yuy () : "may there be fishevery year."
New Year Cake (, Nian gao)prepared from glutinous rice
nin go() [lit. year high]: a more prosperous year
nin go() : year cake
Guangdong sweet nian gao
Red Packets distributed during dinner to immediate family members
Often contain money in certain numbers that reflects luck
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Lantern Festival
(Yun xioji
Fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese Calendar
(Yun month): first month in the Chinese Calendar
(xio): means night in ancient times
Tradition: At the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon
hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out
for people to appreciate
Celebrations Lantern Displays & Parades
Eat Yuanxiao () , a glutinous rice ball
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