Chinese New Year : Feels like Christmas with family.

Chinese New Year is being celebrated as a spring festival. In China, the new year is called the moon's new year. It lasts for 15 days. The last day is called the Lantern Festival.

History of Chinese New Year is about 4000 years old. This is the main and important festival for Chinese people. Chinese people celebrate New Year's festival with their entire family just like Christmas. During the Shang Dynasty from the 11th century to the 17th century, the New Year used to be a symbol of the reunion of the family in the original form.

This festival is celebrated every year on different dates. This year it is considered as the year of the Pig according to the Chinese zodiac. As the Christmas festival is the most important festival for the people of the Western countries, in the same way, the festival of spring is the most important festival of the Chinese people. However, changing time has changed in subjects covered in the spring festival.

Some interesting things of Chinese New Year

No name was given to the first spring festival and there was no fixed date for celebration of this. Before more than 2100 BC, then people had called 'Swei' in Chinese to complete a cycle of Earth on the basis of the Moon. Before 1000 BC, people called the spring festival 'neon'. At that time, the meaning of the law was a lot of crop year.

In different provinces of China, there are different customs to celebrate spring festival. But, on New Year's Eve, Chinese people need to eat together at home. In South China, it is necessary to eat fu and fish that night. Well, the Chinese word 'fu' for fu and fish is almost identical in pronunciation. In northern China, it is considered necessary to eat Chaoji that night. Chaoji is actually a type of Chinese traditional food to be made by filling the meat in flour. Sitting Together around the table, to eat Chaozi's food is an essential ritual for the Northern Chinese people on New Year's Eve.

On the eve of the people welcome the New Year. People burn crackers. Keeping in mind the security and pollution, fireworks in Beijing and some major cities of China have been banned. On the first day of the New Year, everybody in the house welcomes guests by wearing new clothes. People congratulate each other.

Preparations for the festival in rural areas of China begin in December itself. Farmers clean the houses. Buy sweets, meat and fruits from the markets and feed the guests on the festival day.