Chinese New Year's Celebration - Chinese Customs - 0 views
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Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays and is celebrated as the Spring Festival
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The Chinese New Year is based on the Chinese Calendar which complies with the phases of the moon. According to this, Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Calendar
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Traditionally the festival is a family event, everybody travels back home to meet the family and to visit relatives and friends, a practice known as "new-year visits" (Chinese: 拜年; pinyin: bàinián).
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Traditionally houses are cleaned on the 28th day (of the last month) of the (old) year, prior to the Chinese New Year
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This practice diverted from hanging peach-wood charms on doors, since peach-wood is considered to keep away ghosts and evil spirits and enhance immortality.
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New cloth in the auspicious red colour are bought and will be worn for the first time in the early hours of the new year.
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sweeping the house should be avoided- especially during the first three days-, since otherwise upcoming good luck would be swept out
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bad luck to wash one's hair during the first three days of the New Year as good fortune would be washed out.
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as the fruit is considered to enhance abundance, prosperity, having children, and good health in the year to come.
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as sharp instruments such as knives and scissors used for the preparation can be put away to avoid the 'cutting' effect of these.