Why Chinese attach importance to spring festival?

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is the most important festival in China and a major event in some other East Asian countries (Lunar New Year is known as Seollal in South Korea, Tet in Vietnam, and Tsagaan Sar in Mongolian). Lunar New Year celebrations are being held more and more in Western cities in recent years too, like New York, London, Vancouver, and Sydney.

Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. It was traditionally a time to honor deities as well as ancestors, and it has also become a time to feast and to visit family members.

The celebrations traditionally last about two weeks in total, from Chinese New Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the lunar year. Regional customs and traditions vary widely but share the same theme: seeing out the old year and welcoming in the luck and prosperity of a new year.

It represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones.As the first day of the year, yuandan

has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times.

In contemporary, New Year’s day, refers to the Christian era at the first day. Since the western introduced into China, New Year’s day

after a word was dedicated to the New Year, but the traditional lunar calendar says the Spring Festival as Chinese New Year.

In China,to celebrate Spring Festival is a very important thing, and it’s also a grand holiday.People will duty-off and back home to spend

the holiday together with family.

How Chinese Celebrate their new year?

On the day before Chines New year which is called “Chuxi”(the last day on Lunar Calendar),after haishi, zishi(11p.m. to 1a.m.)will come, and this is the arrival of the New Year.At this moment, people begin the celebration with fireworks. Vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings, and incense be burned to welcome the deities. In the ancient times, it was believed that “haishi” connected the two years and thus was called kaisui”.

At the same night, some families will follow the instruction in Tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the “fortune deity” during the “fortune time” to receive the deity. If the direction of the “fortune deity” is at the “ill position”, people will choose to receive “happy deity” or “noble deity” instead of it.

What will Chinese eat during the Spring festiva?

Chinese people will have a big dinner together with family which named “Family Reunion Dinner”in “ChuXI”night.

There is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on the ChineseNewYear between the Chinese in the northern and southern regions. The Northern Chinese has the habit of taking Jiaozi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside) while the Southern Chinese habit of taking Tangyuan(the glue pudding which made of sticky rice flour with sesame or sweetened bean paste paste inside).

Besides, the Spring roll(a thin sheet of dough rolled, stuffed and fired ) is also common in Chinese dining-table.

Before the Chinese Spring Festival, people usually go shopping to buy “Nianhuo”(the special purchses for the Spring Festival) and give gifts to each other.

Kinpack also prepare the Spring Festival Gift.

KINPACK wish you a happy spring Festival！