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Chinese New Year is not only the occasion of revival but a lot more. It is the carnival of family reunion and get together and is the occasion to greet the newness in the form of a spanking new year with a sheer zest. The Chinese New Year is very similar to the Western one, enfolded in traditions and rituals and the typical Chinese New Year tradition starts on the new moon day of the lunar month. Chinese New Year tradition typifies the New Year as the Spring Festival and celebration.
Symbol, rituals and values laces the Chinese New Year tradition whilst making the New Year an even of immense verve. Buying presents, wearing new clothes, decorating the houses and preparing the conventional foods are some of the Chinese New Year traditions which make the New Year an event to look forward whilst forgetting all the unpleasant memories with the closed years. A huge clean-up gets happening days before the New Year, and every Chinese home are cleaned to chase away any trace of ill fate and bad luck. |
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The color red has significance in Chinese New Year and is famed to drive away evils. Doors and windows of the houses are given a fresh coating of color red and is an well accepted Chinese New Year tradition. The doors and windows are then bedecked with paper cuts and red couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.
Rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing and the refined family dinner completes the Chinese New Year tradition whilst making the new year an event of family reunion. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings which signifies different good wishes. Prawns, for happiness and liveliness, dried oysters for wishing all good things, raw fish salad for good luck and prosperity and dumplings boiled in water signifying a long-lost good wish for a family are some of the customary delicacies of Chinese New Year which signifies the Chinese New Year tradition. Although celebration of Chinese New Year may vary yet the underlying message of wishing peace and harmony laced with all the Chinese New Year tradition is always same everywhere.
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