The New Year’s New Year in China is a large -scale celebration of many Asian countries around the world and its Diaspola.
The Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is a two -week celebration that marks the first day of the Chinese calendar that lands on Wednesday.
The New Year in China has been developed mainly in the 12 -year cycle, and has been linked to the animals of Chinese constellations, and has been combined with one of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and the earth.
This New Year is the year of wood snake.
Its origin is in China, the Chinese community of Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, celebrate with the same name, and the same traditions, such as Vietnam and the Korean Peninsula, are completely different names of their new names. The year festival.
How do you celebrate the Lunar New Year?
The day to the New Year will be thoroughly cleaned and spent to purify unfortunate space from the previous year.
This cleaning is believed to welcome good luck for the next year. Decorations such as lanterns, paper cuttings, fresh paint, etc. will also rise. Everything is bright red and good luck.
The celebration begins with a family reunion dinner the night before the New Year.
When the first day of the new year begins, the house and friends are filled with families and friends with gifts, oranges, and red embodys with a small amount of money known as Anpao or Honbao for small children. Masu.
Greetings and well wishes are exchanged, such as the more common Chinese phrase GONG XI Fa Cai, and the Xin Nian Kuai Le, which is roughly translated into future happiness, peace and prosperity.
According to the Chinese Malaysian Evonne Go, the beliefs differ by refraining from cleaning the house in the first and first days, or cutting hair and nails in the first few days. Masu.
Traditional lion dance is the central part of the celebration to invite good luck and drive away evil spirits from homes, companies, and workplaces.
Traditionally, a married woman was hoped to spend the first day of China in the new year with her righteousness, while her daughter was reserved to visit her parents.
The third day is quiet and the rest is expected to be prioritized, and the fourth and fifth days are dedicated to the god of wealth. On the sixth day of the celebration, it is said that people will see people removing old or unnecessary belongings and resuming their work.
On the seventh day, it is believed that the Chinese mother, Nuwa, created humans.
Koreans celebrate “SEOLLAL” and Vietnam’s mark “Tet”
The Korean New Year (SEOLLAL) and Vietnamese New Year (TET) are also celebrated in their own way.
The Korean New Year is celebrated for three days. The celebration is traditionally focused on gathering family members, traditional foods and rituals in Korea. For South Korea and North Koreans, it is believed to be the year of green snakes, which will cause transformation, growth and development.
Some of the more important aspects of the Korean festival include a deep -respect bow, a deeply respectful bow played by the younger generation.
Usually, sebum is done while wearing traditional clothes called hambok. In return, the elders offer a lot of cash to the young people on the envelope called SEBAETDON.
The worship of ancestors, known as CHARYE, is also an important part of the New Year. Food is placed on the table as a offerings to the ancestors, and the deep bow is played as a respect for respect.
The soup full of rice, known as TTEOKGUK, is offered along with other dishes such as Korean DUMP children. However, TTeokGuk takes a special place on the dining table because it is offered once a year, just one year, just one year older, because eating it is to make people.
TET NGUYEN DAN’s TET’s Vietnamese celebration, which is the “first day festival”, is celebrated in three days in contrast to the traditional 15 years of China.
Tet is one of the most important holidays in Vietnam, where offices and companies are closed for 7-9 days.
Vietnamese also prioritize their time with their families, respect their ancestors, pray to God, and prioritize resting before the beginning of the New Year.
In front of Tett, the Vietnamese people observe Ongkong, the god of the kitchen god, believed to dominate family problems. On this day, the family’s altar to the ancestors is cleaned, new offering is erased, and incense is burned.
Cleaning and decorating the house with the wrapping, cum cut, peach flower, and apricot flowers, also called tetcake, is also an essential part of preparation.
The day before Tett, the family prepared five fruit trays laid out on the altar for their ancestors, and visited their ancestors’ tombs.
Usually, the first day of the celebration is made by the paternal side of the family, but the second day is for the maternal side.
The Vietnamese culture is also dedicated to praise teachers on the third day of the New Year, and highly appreciates teachers.
Tibet “LOSAR” and Mongolian “Tsugaan SAR”
Some of Tibet and India have an important Tibetan Buddhist community, Rosal, translated as the New Year of the Tibetan Lunisola calendar, is celebrating the same time as the Chinese New Year.
However, the date is slightly different, and this year’s Losar will be marked on February 28 and will be extended over 15 days.
LOSAR is often observed through the traditional and religious rituals, cultural events, and family bonds over the common meals and gifts in monasteries and temples.
Mongolia celebrates the New Year, known as Tsugaan SAR on March 1, based on Mongolia’s Lnisola calendar.
However, preparation begins in advance. This includes cleaning the house and preparing for food. Family, neighbors, and friends visit each other, the offerings are dedicated to the gods, and the actual New Year’s day begins by walking in a specific direction based on a constellation prescription.
