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Chinese New Year
Lion dancers at Historic
Chinatown Gate, Chinese New Year,
Hing
Hay Park
,
Seattle,
Washington
(February 3, 2011)
Also
called
Observed by
Type
Significance
Celebrations
Lunar New Year, Spring Festival.
Chinese
communities
worldwide
[1]
Cultural
,
Religious
(
Buddhist
,
Taoist
,
Confucian
)
The first day of the
Chinese calendar
Lion
dances
,
fireworks,
family
gathering,
family
meal,
visiting
friends
and
relatives
(
拜
年
,
bà
iniá
n),
giving
red
envelopes
, decorating with <
/p>
duilian
(
對聯
< br>, duì
liá
n).
Chinese lunar new year
Date
Chinese
New
Year
is
an
important
traditional
Chinese
holiday
.
In
China
,
it
is
also known as the
Spring Festival
. Chinese New
Year celebrations traditionally
ran
from
Chinese New
Year's Eve
,
the last day of
the last month of the
Chinese
calendar
,
to
the
Lantern
Festival
on
the
15th
day
of
the
first
month,
making
the
festival
the
longest in the Chinese calendar.
Because the
Chinese calendar
is
lunisolar
（日与月的）
,
the Chinese New Year is often referred
to as the
Lunar New
Year
Within China, regional
customs and traditions concerning
（关于，就。
。
。而言）
the celebration of the Chinese
New Year vary
widely. Often,
the evening
preceding
（
adj
在前的，陈述的
V
在。
。之前）
Chinese New Year's Day is an occasion
for
Chinese families to gather for the
annual
每年的
reunion
dinner
. It is also traditional
for every family to
thoroughly
彻底的
完全的
cleanse
（
V
净化
）
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
colour
paper-
cuts
and
couplets
对联
with
popular
themes
of
fortune
or
,
and
长寿
.
Oth
er
activities include lighting
firecrackers
鞭炮
and giving money in
red
paper envelopes
.
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Lantern Festival
The
Lantern
Festival
in
China
is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of
the
first month in the lunisolar
阴与月的
year in the
lunar calendar
marking the
last day
of
the
lunar
New
Year
celebration.
It
is
also
known
as
the
Yuanxiao
Festival
or
Shangyuan
Festival
; During the Lantern Festival,
children go out at night to temples
carrying
paper
lanterns
and solve riddles
谜语
on
the lanterns
Qingming Festival
Qingming
Burning paper gifts for the
departed.(adj,
死去的
n
死者
v<
/p>
离去去掉
ed)
Also
called
Observed by
Significance
Observances
清明節
Tomb Sweeping Day
All Souls Day
Chinese
Remembering past ancestors
Cleaning and sweeping of graves,
Ancestor
worship
礼
拜
尊敬
n&v
, offering
food to deceased(adj
已故的
n
死者
),
burning
joss paper
纸钱
15th day from the Spring Equinox
Apr. 4, 5 or 6
Date
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