Here it is. We have our own calendar named lunar calendar as well as Chinese triditional calendar.
When is Chinese new year in lunar calendar? Chinese New Year is Lunar January 1st.
Who celebrate Chinese New Year? Of course all Chinese people will celebrate their new year; however, we should call it Asian New Year instead of Chinese New Year. Here is the reason people from Korea, Tibet, Bhutan, Mongolia, Vietna, and Japan they all share the same triditional new years day with Chinese.
Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of the year in China. We give this festival a name as Spring Festival, which clearly shows that after the festival Spring will be coming soon.
Traditionally, Spring festival lasts 16 days. It begins with the New Year Eve, which we call it Chu Xi. At that day all family members will get together to eat a big new year meal. You can never imaging how much effort Chinese people put on this festival. Every year before and after new year you will see three most crowd places: airport, railway station, and greyhund station. We transfered about 5 billion people dring Spring Festival. That's what happens every festival season. Go home dring the festival is the biggest goal for a Chinese in that day.
What will people do except having a big meal with family in China?
At that time people will wat a triditional TV Show named Spring Festival gala evening. It is provide by CCTV ( China Central Televation), which is a free channel and everyone can recieve the channel in China.
When it hits 12:00 a.m. people will go outside of their rooms to celebrate the early new year with fireworks.
Then the next coming morning everyone in the family should wake up early to give new year greedings to each other. Children will recieve lucky pocket from parents and other elders. The lucky pocket is an red envolop. It prays for health and safe in the new year. An early breakfast means hard work for the coming new year.
From the second day of new year people start visting friends and other relatives.
The new year festival ends at the 15th day of the new year. In that day the family will have a family dinner and those young people need to go back to work after that. So it is also a day for people to say good-bye to each other.
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