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January 26, 2009 is the Year of the OX, where all Chinese people celebrating this important day. A Chinese New Year origin itself centuries old - in fact, too old actually to be traced. It is popularly recognized as the Spring Festival and celebrations last 15 days.
Preparations tend to begin a month from the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to a Western Christmas), when people start buying presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red. The doors and windows are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets with themes such as happiness, wealth and longevity printed on them.
This is more likely to the traditional christian new year every January first of the year. The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters (or ho xi), for all things good, raw fish salad or yu sheng to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-hai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lost good wish for a family. It's usual to wear something red as this co lour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning.
After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.
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This is more likely to the traditional christian new year every January first of the year. The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of seafood and dumplings, signifying different good wishes. Delicacies include prawns, for liveliness and happiness, dried oysters (or ho xi), for all things good, raw fish salad or yu sheng to bring good luck and prosperity, Fai-hai (Angel Hair), an edible hair-like seaweed to bring prosperity, and dumplings boiled in water (Jiaozi) signifying a long-lost good wish for a family. It's usual to wear something red as this co lour is meant to ward off evil spirits - but black and white are out, as these are associated with mourning.
After dinner, the family sit up for the night playing cards, board games or watching TV programes dedicated to the occasion. At midnight, the sky is lit up by fireworks.
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