Its Chinese New Year 2021! Do you know custom of Chinese New Year tradition? Chinese people regard Chinese New Year as luck of the coming year, not only observing the festival by adhering to ancient rules, they would also try to avoid violating various taboos. According to the Lunar calendar, Chinese New Year tradition is a 15-day celebration, many families rotate celebrations between homes of their relatives. This year we all just make a simple celebrations due to Covid-19 and don forget to make a safety measures while hang out at restaurants or shops! Here we wanted to share you among Do and Don’ts during Chinese New Year tradition, enjoy the year of OX in the proper manner!
DOS of Chinese New Year Tradition
Like many major holidays, Chinese New Year tradition is best spent with family. Family reunion dinners falling on CNY Eve also include ancestral worship rituals. The Chinese New Year tradition was originally a ceremonial day to pray to gods for a good planting and harvest season. People prayed to their ancestors, as they were treated as gods. As part of starting a new year fresh, connecting with the people in your life is central to Chinese New Year tradition.
Enjoy more time with relatives after the family’s reunion dinner! People staying up Chinese New Year’s Eve and set off firecrackers at 12am midnight . In the morning, firecrackers are used again to welcome the new year and good luck.
It’s easy to see when the CNY is around the corner – festive scarlet decor adorns every street, storefront and home. Red decorations being associated with wealth and good fortune representatives auspicious.
Greet everyone you meet by saying “恭喜发财” (Gong Xi Fa Cai), which means “Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year”, offering sincere peace and well wishes to all around. Kids sometimes have to be reminded to say their Thank You’s and Happy New Year too, and not to open their red packets in front of the receiver.
Everyone, including children and babies, should be dressed in new clothes to celebrate the new year, and in bright colours. Red is a favourite colour of choice, because it symbolizes luck and prosperity. Above all, don’t wear white or black clothing, since these are the traditional colours of mourning.
There are an array of Chinese New Year tradition foods and snacks that you should get during the holiday. In Cantonese, mandarin orange is homophonous with the word “gold” and “luck”, so it’s part of the Chinese New Year tradition that people bring along mandarin oranges while visiting others’ family and hand them out as a sign of sharing good fortune.
DON’TS of Chinese New Year Tradition
On the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, you could be sweeping the wealth away when you sweep the floor! Chinese New Year tradition believe that the act of tantamount to sweeping away any good luck and wealth. Taking out garbage symbolizes dumping out the good luck or good fortune from the house. So before the New Year arrives, you should have spring-cleaned your home from top to bottom.
People typically don’t wash their hair on the first day of CNY. In Cantonese, hair is pronounced as Fat (meaning wealth). If you wash your hair, it means that you’re washing your own fortune away for the coming 364 days. To make things more interesting, people should avoid washing clothes on the first and second day, because these two days are celebrated as the birthday of the Shuishen (水神, the Water God). Despite the odd custom, do practise good personal hygiene habits, such as washing and sanitising your hands to keep yourselves healthy through Chinese New Year.
Pay attention to your words; words with negative meaning should be avoided in daily conversation as it invites bad luck and misfortune to the individual or even the family. You should avoid any unhappy thoughts or situations as the New Year is a time to celebrate the good things in one’s life. So if you don’t want any unfortunate events to happen to you or your significant other, remember these Chinese New Year tradition.
Serving porridge to familys and relatives on 1st day’s morning through Chinese New Year tradition means wishing for poverty to befall you! In the past, poor people could only afford rice porridge, so porridge reflects a down and out life.
People should not take medicines, or see the doctor till the 15th days of CNY festival; otherwise they may suffer from disease all the year round, and barely gain recovery. Although it is considered a practice of Chinese New Year superstitions, it is better to observe this tradition if you are not badly ill.
Last but no least, debts should be paid off before CNY because it is commonly believed that you will suffer from continuous debts for the rest of your life. If you owe anyone money, be sure to return them before CNY as fast as you can! Futhermore, do not lend or borrow anything on the first day of lunar January, especially money. Lending money is an unlucky omen. Asking for return of debts owed is also a Chinese New Year tradition taboo.
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