How to Prepare Chinese Lunar New Year?
Jan 27, 2022
Preparations of Chinese Lunar New Year (Jan. 10–30, 2022) How to prepare Chinese Lunar New Year? In generally,The preparations start a month ago, including 'sweeping of the home' to sweep away any misfortune and bad luck, putting up new year decorations for good luck, and new year shopping. Let's check what we have done for preparing Chinese Lunar New Year. 1.House-Cleaning 2.New Year Shopping 3.Putting Up New Year Decorations 4.Offering Sacrifices to Ancestors 5.Prepare Firecrackers and Fireworks 6.Prepare a Reunion Dinner 7.Prepare Lucky Money to Kids 1.House-Cleaning Chinese people will carry out a thorough ‘cleaning’ of their houses at the beginning of the 12th lunar month, It is called "sweeping away the dust", and represents a wish to put away old things, bid farewell to the old year, and welcome in the New Year. 2.New Year Shopping Before Chinese New Year’s Eve, people buy New Year’s food and snacks, New Year's decorations, New Year’s gifts and New Year's clothes, fireworks, etc. Chinese New Year in China, like Christmas, It is a time for shopping. 3.Putting Up New Year Decorations Although some people decorate their houses several days before the festival, most people do it on Chinese New Year's Eve. Houses are decorated with red lanterns, red spring couplets, paper cuttings, and New Year's paintings. Putting up those decorations is thought to keep evil away and pray for blessing, longevity, health, and peace. 2022 is a Year of the Tiger, so tiger images will appear on decorations. If you are interested in Chinese New Year decorations, you can check below details. (1) Chinese Red Lanterns — Drive Off Bad Luck During Chinese New Year it is not uncommon to see lanterns hung on trees in the streets, office buildings, and doors of houses. Hanging a red lantern in front of the door is believed to drive off bad luck. (2) Door Couplets — Best Wishes for the Coming Year New Year couplets (对联duìlián ) are pasted on doors. On the couplets, good wishes or statements are expressed. New Year good wishes are usually posted in pairs (i.e. couplets), as even numbers are associated with good luck and auspiciousness in Chinese culture. Couplets are brush works of Chinese calligraphy, in black ink on red paper. The two usually-seven (or nine)-character lines of the couplet are affixed on the two sides of a doorway. Many are poems about the arrival of spring. These might remain up until renewed at the next Chinese New Year. In the same vein, a four-character idiom of well wishes is often added to the crosspiece of the door frame as well. (3) Paper Cuttings — Luck and Happiness Paper cutting is the art of cutting designs out of paper (any color, but typically red for the Spring Festival), and then gluing them to a contrasting backing or a transparent surface (e.g. a window). It is customary for people in northern and central China to paste red paper cuttings on doors and windows. (4) New Year Paintings — a Symbol of New Year's Greetings New Year Paintings (年画...
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