Chinese New Year: Fun and Respect

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as 'Spring Festival'

Southeast Asia's largest temple — Kek Lok Si in Penang, Malaysia — illuminated in preparation for the Lunar New Year

The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chúxī (除夕), literally "remove evening" or "Eve of the Passing Year."

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar. 
 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 colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families.


VOILA:

• China will celebrate its new year on 10 feb,2013
• Each chinese new year ie represnted by chinese zoadic sign(animals specificly), and the chinese animal for 2013 is Snake.

Chinese New Year Calender

Importance of Each day in New Year celebration :

First day

The first day is for the welcoming of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at midnight. It is a traditional practice to light fireworks, burn bamboo sticks and firecrackers and to make as much of a din as possible to chase off the evil spirits.

Second day

The second day of the Chinese New Year, known as kāinián (开年, "beginning of the year"),^[16] was when married daughters visited their birth parents, relatives and close friends.

Some believe that the second day is also the birthday of all dogs and remember them with special treats.

Third day

The third day is known as Chìkǒu (赤口), rural villagers continue with the tradition of offering prayers beside open burning rubbish dumps, whereby waste and rubbish are incinerated together with offerings. It is generally accepted that it is not a good day to socialize or visit your relatives and friends.

Fourth day

In those communities that celebrate Chinese New Year for only two or three days, the fourth day is when corporate "spring dinners" kick off and business returns to normal.

Fifth day

This day is the God of Wealth's birthday.

Seventh day

The seventh day, traditionally known as Rénrì (人日, the common man's birthday), the day when everyone grows one year older.

Eighth day

Another family dinner is held to celebrate the eve of the birth of the Jade Emperor. However, everybody should be back to work by the eighth day.

Chinese New Year's celebrations, on the eighth day

Ninth day

The ninth day of the New Year is a day for Chinese to offer prayers to the Jade Emperor of Heaven (天公, Tiāngōng) in the DaoistPantheon. The ninth day is traditionally the birthday of the Jade Emperor.

Tenth day

The Jade Emperor's party is also celebrated on this day.

Thirteenth day

On the 13th day people will eat pure vegetarian food to clean out their stomach due to consuming too much food over the last two weeks.

Fifteenth day

This day is celebrated as the Lantern Festival, and families walk the street carrying lighted lanterns.

Few glimpses of joy n' fun :