Spring Festival
China's New Year
Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year celebration, the most important traditional holiday in Chinese culture.
It marks the beginning of the lunar new year, typically falling between late January and mid-February.
Festivities include family reunions, feasts, red envelopes containing money, fireworks, and dragon dances.
The celebration lasts about fifteen days, ending with the Lantern Festival.
- firecrackersSmall explosive novelties
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- ancestral worshipReligious honoring of forebears
- paper cuttingsShapes carved from sheets
- Chinese zodiacTwelve-year animal cycle
zodiac animals · family reunion · reunion dinner · family dinner · going home · Lunar New Year · red envelopes · lion dance · dragon dance · celebration · dumplings · tradition · Chinatowns · Chinese lanterns · Halloween · Eid al-Fitr · Vesak · couplets
- holidaysChristmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day
- ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yellow River, Chinese calligraphy
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- folk festivalsBeltane, Samhain, maypole, Midsummer, May Day
- Asian FestivalsChinese New Year, Diwali, Deepavali, Holi, Lunar New Year
- Chinese HolidaysChinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tomb Sweeping Day, National Day, New Year's Eve
Spring FestivalNew Year's Day
Annual calendar restart
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