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The New
Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths
and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well
as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with
significant Chinese populations, including Mainland China, Hong Kong (officially
as Lunar New Year), Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Mauritius and Australia, Chinese New Year is considered a
major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year
celebrations of its geographic neighbours.
Chinese
New Year, also known as the "Spring Festival" (simplified Chinese 春节;
traditional Chinese 春節;
Pinyin: Chūn Jié) in modern Mainland China, is an important Chinese festival
celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Celebrations
traditionally run from the evening preceding the first day, to the Lantern
Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. The first day of the New
Year falls on the new moon between 21 January and 20 February. In 2017, the
first day of the Chinese New Year is on Saturday, 28 January, initiating the
year of the Rooster.
The New
Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths
and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well
as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with
significant Chinese populations, including Mainland China, Hong Kong (officially
as Lunar New Year), Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Mauritius and Australia, Chinese New Year is considered a
major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year
celebrations of its geographic neighbours.
Within
China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the
Chinese New Year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's
Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion
dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse 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 color paper-cuts and
couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or
"happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". Other
activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
Among about one third of the Mainland population, or 500 million Northerners,
dumplings (especially those of vegetarian fillings) feature prominently in the
meals celebrating the festival.