Spring Festival Eve (Chinese New Year's Eve)
Introduction
Date of Chinese Spring Festival Eve
Year | Lunar Date | Solar Date (Gregorian Date) |
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2023 | December 30th, 2022 | January 21st, 2023 |
2024 | December 30th, 2023 | February 9th, 2024 |
2025 | December 29th, 2024 | January 28th, 2025 |
Traditions and Customs
Reunion Dinner
The dinner is richer and more sumptuous than usual including chicken, fish, pork, shrimp, vegetables and more. In northern China, Dumplings (Jiaozi) is usually indispensible and in southern China Niangao (a kind of cake made of glutinous rice flour) is a must. Since the shape of the dumplings resembles an ingot, eating them symbolizes the gaining of wealth. A coin is usually wrapped inside one dumpling. The people who eat it is said to have good luck for the coming year. Eating Niangao indicates an increasingly prosperous new year. Eating fish on the New Year's Eve also has a special meaning. In Chinese, fish means 'yu' which has the same pronunciation with the Chinese word meaning surplus. Eating fish symbolizes 'Surplus Year after Year' in China. Having liquor during the dinner is regarded as auspicious because in Chinese liquor has the same pronunciation with the longevity word.
Nowadays, with the improvement of the level of people's lives, some families choose to have the reunion dinner at restaurants. This can be mostly seen in cities.
Watching Spring Festival Evening Party Broadcast
Guarding the Age (or Year)
Setting Firecrackers and Launching Fireworks
Ancestors Worshipping
Other Customs
Chinese Spring Festival Laba Festival Lantern Festival Dragon Heads-raising Day Qingming Festival Ghost Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Double Seventh Festival Dragon Boat Festival The Double Ninth Festival Winter Solstice
Chinese Calendar
Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
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26初七/7 | 27初八/8 | 28初九/9 | 1初十/10 | 2十壹/11 | 3十二/12 | 4十三/13 |
5十四/14 | 6十五/15 | 7十六/16 | 8十七/17 | 9十八/18 | 10十九/19 | 11二十/20 |
12廿壹/21 | 13廿二/22 | 14廿三/23 | 15廿四/24 | 16廿五/25 | 17廿六/26 | 18廿七/27 |
19廿八/28 | 20廿九/29 | 21三十/30 | 二月 (Feb) 22初壹/1 | 23初二/2 | 24初三/3 | 25初四/4 |
26初五/5 | 27初六/6 | 28初七/7 | 29初八/8 | 30初九/9 | 31初十/10 | 1十壹/11 |
Lunar Date
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