Things You Should Know About Chinese New Year

New Year is very important for Chinese people, it's like Christmas to Western countries. You can experience it by yourself through this Chinese New Year tour package 2015.

Chinese New Year is also known as "Spring Festival", since the spring season in Chinese calendar starts with lichun, the first solar term in a Chinese calendar year. It marks the end of the winter season, analogous to the Western Carnival. The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day.
Decorated in Red

streets decorated in red

Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese New Year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing.
It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". And the streets are decked out with all kinds of lanterns, and vendors were selling all kinds of couplets and blessing pastes.
New Year's Eve Dinner

spring festival dinner

Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chúxī. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year".
On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families. Food has a very important role in Chinese New Year! Food will include such items as Nian Gao, fish, dumplings, pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet delicacies, etc. The simple dishes served as each has its hidden meanings!
For an ultimate kick start to the New Year you definitely need to eat some Nian Gao (New Year Cake). The omen behind this little sweet dish is that each year will be more prosperous than the previous.
Although fish is eaten all year round in China, it is still a very important dish on Chinese New Year. The meaning behind the fish is that you will have a surplus each year, so you definitely want to be eating more fish if you want to be raking in the money for 2015!
In the north of China dumplings are eaten throughout the year, but during the Chinese New Year these delicious little parcels represent fortune and wealth due to its appearance resembling that of golden ingots. If you're lucky you might even find a golden coin in one of your dumplings! The family will end the night with firecrackers.
Red Envelopes

red envelopes

Early in the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is to reconcile, forget all grudges and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.
Temple Fair
Visiting the temple is also the traditional activities a celebration for the Chinese New Year. After the New Year's Eve, people generally stroll temples, eat snacks, and see juggling and the traditional folk performances together, reveling in the warm and peaceful festive atmosphere, enjoyable.