Celebration of Chinese New Year 2019

Celebration of Chinese New Year 2019

Chinese New Year is known today as the Spring Festival in this modern day. The Chinese New Year is celebrated between January and March every year. Chinese New Year 2019 is Tuesday, February 5th this year.

In China it is very celebrated. People make many preparations and celebrate happiness for this day.

Pre Chinese New Year 2019 Preparations

Laba Festival

Some Chinese people already get ready for their New Year's preparations. This is the time of January 5 when some people have been engaged in preparations for the Chinese New Year from long ago.

After January 20, people are cleaning their homes. Removes old things out of your house and ready for a new beginning.

A lot of people in China also start shopping for their New Year's celebrations. There is a lot of crowd in China's big cities during the Christmas and New Year.

Everybody buys new clothes and the Chinese New Year, especially new markets, are also installed.

Decorations At Home

On Chinese New Year, people do not leave any room to decorate their homes. Some people decorate it a day or two ago but most people decorate their homes during New Year's Eve.
The houses decorate red lanterns, red-colored twins and beautiful pictures of the new year in their homes. People also put photos of God in the doors of their houses. They believe that doing this brings blessings, longevity, health, and peace.

It is said that if these two people write the Spring duhas in the Chinese homes, then evil is far away. These are some black or red colored cards which contain some traditional couplets and a monkey picture is also made known as Lucky Monkey.
Many new paintings for Chinese New Year are also used in the walls of their houses.

The Four Homelands of the New Year Painting

Taizhou in Mianhuhu, Sichuan, Suzhou, Yangliquin in Tianjin and weifang in Shandong.

Paper Cutouts is an integral part of Chinese New Year, which is very much used. They are very beautiful and they contain artifacts related to different types of topics like farming, weaving, fisheries, sheep rearing, pigs, and chicken rearing. Also flower, bird and Chinese Zodiac creatures are famous in Chinese paper cutout designs.

Chinese New Year 2019 Eve

On this day, the Chinese people celebrate very much. All the people of the house celebrate the party with their families in the evening. Some people too travel by far and also to their family.
In this happiness many dishes are also made. Such as fish, sugar Fritters, spring rolls, sticky rice cakes, sweet rice balls, noodles, oranges etc.

Watching CCTV’s New Year Gala

It has become a custom that all the Chinese families together see CCTV's New Year Gala on New Year's Day till midnight. Gala starts from 8 a.m. and ends at midnight. There are several types of Chinese literary programs and song Sandin organized.

Chinese New Year 2019 Day 1

All Chinese people enjoy the new year at night and celebrate the whole party.

New Year's Bell 

A bell or a Traditional symbol of the Bell Chinese New Year is because they believe that by playing a big bang, all bad things are dispelled and it is very good to take good luck. People go to the temples on this day, where by playing the big Bell they lose their misery.

Lion dances and dragon dances

The lion and dragon dance is very famous in Hong Kong and Macau.

Chinese New Year 2019 Day 2

Traditionally a married daughter, Chinese New Year's Day, 2 days comes to visit his parents' house.

Chinese New Year from 3rd day to seventh day

In the 3 - 7th day, Chinese people go to visit their relatives and friends. They believe that their good Fate and faith will be cleansed with pieces of firecrackers and red papers, so they clean it after two days.

Chinese New Year’s Day 8

On 8th day people take up the task of their ordinary lives. No. 8 is considered to be Lucky in China, so all businesses and companies start their work on this day again.

Chinese New Year’s Day 15

The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year's Lantern Festival. This spring festival festival is an important traditional end. On this day people burn the lanterns and fly in the sky.

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What Is Lunar New Year ? What does it mean if you're born in the year of the Pig?

 Lunar New Year is Also called "Spring Festival" and "Chinese New Year" since it comes in the springtime and is dated dependent on the Chinese lunar Calendar. The date vacillates, from a Western viewpoint, however comes in either January or February.
Every Lunar New Year is assigned as "the time of" one of the 12 creatures of the Chinese Zodiac, which creature should describe that year and each one of those conceived in it.

Lunar New Year is the most imperative every year repeating celebration for individuals of Chinese lineage everywhere throughout the world. It has been commended for more than 1,000 years – perhaps any longer, and the customs included are profoundly instilled in Chinese culture. For some, it is likewise a religious occasion, loaded with petitions, contributions, and different demonstrations of dedication.

In Malaysia, as somewhere else, individuals get ready for Lunar New Year well ahead of time. Houses are gotten out altogether before it touches base to "clear out any misfortune," however floor brushes are covered up away on New Year's Day inspired by a paranoid fear of "clearing ceaselessly the good fortunes" that the landing of another year brings.

New garments, to be worn on New Year's Day, and a substantial reserve of nourishment for New Year's Eve supper, are likewise bought ahead of time, making the strip malls exceptionally bustling this season. Welcome cards are likewise generally traded.

Lunar New Year is really celebrated for 15 back to back days, however the initial three days are generally vital. The fifteenth and last day, Chap Goh Mei is likewise a major occasion, where houses are improved with a bounty of splendidly shaded lights. It is a method for consummation with an amazing finale as opposed to the celebrations simply blurring endlessly progressively.

On the eve before the main day of the new year, family-just suppers and reunions are held. On the consequent days, in any case, many will welcome companions and inside and out outsiders to come feast with them. This "open house" approach is additionally worked on amid other Malaysian occasions and everywhere open Lunar New Year get-togethers put on at Malaysian people group lobbies. It ought not be difficult to get welcomed to a gathering.

Other Lunar New Year conventions include: "Yee Sang," a vegetable mixture dish eaten by tossing its pieces high noticeable all around with chopsticks to bring good fortunes; hanging up "duilian," scrolls bearing acclaimed lines frame Chinese verse; going to lion and mythical serpent moves; wagering on card diversions, insofar as the wagers are unobtrusive; giving out endowments of cash in little red ang-pao bundles; and going to firecrackers shows, the greatest of which are in Chinese regions of Kuala Lumpur and in urban areas with substantial Chinese populaces.

What is the year of the Pig?

lunar New Year in 2019 is on Tuesday, the fifth of February (5/2/2019). 
As per the Chinese 12-year creature zodiac cycle, the Chinese year starting in 2019 is the time of the Pig. Every Chinese zodiac year starts on Chinese New Year's Day. 

Pig years are accepted to be the most unfortunate for individuals conceived in earlier long periods of the Pig. 
Lunar New Year, Also called as "Spring Festival" in present day Mainland China, will be China's most critical conventional celebration, celebrated at the turn of the customary lunisolar Chinese timetable, which comprises of both Gregorian and lunar-sunlight based date-book frameworks. Chinese New Year can start whenever between late January and mid-February.

Lunar New Year Food

The Chinese Reunion supper is a standout amongst the most essential components amid Chinese New Year. The get-together supper which is hung on the eve of New Year is where families assemble over an indulgent feast with heaps of clamor and chuckling. 

Sustenance assumes an essential job for the Chinese and also generally Malaysians. Thus, amid the get-together supper, one will have the capacity to see a wide range of dishes on the table including the renowned Yee Sang, stir-fry leeks, stick cakes and others.

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