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Chinese New Year: in the night of 15th to 16th of February we are launching fireworks, dancing with dragons and dogs and visiting our grandma
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Chinese New Year date changes every year depending on the Lunar cycle. 2018 will be held under the auspices of the Yellow Ground Dog. The celebration starts in the night of 15th to 16th February and lasts 15 days. The year of the Yellow Ground Dog runs until February, 4 – 2019.
People born during the year of the Yellow Earth Dog are always busy. They are mainly positive, friendly, joyful. It should be mentioned that the totem animal controling this year has a clear conservative nature, this means 2018 is not going to be life-changing for most of the people. It will be a peaceful year, a quiet period which is better to devote to a creativity. The Yellow Earth Dog takes care about good health for everybody. This year is going to be full of love and family values.
Chinese New year is being celebrated over two thousand years, so it is the most ancient celebration of the spring. At this time, friends and relatives give to each other gifts: fruits, sweets and the red paper envelopes with money. Traditions of New Year celebrations in Northern and Southern China are different, but the beginning and the end of these celebrations are the same. The celebration ends after the Lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the new Lunar calendar.
Each of the 15 celebration days has its own traditions that should be followed to have the successful year. At midnight of the first day of the Chinese New Year celebration be sure to arrange grand fireworks display and launch all the firecrackers you have at home. The Chinese organize fun and colourful street party with dancing dragons and rich feast. This day people should remember the dead ancestors and visit the grandparents and other older relatives with gifts and treats. The table of this day should be luxurious: typical dishes from chicken and pork do not contradict the famous Peking duck and fish of all varieties.
The second day is completely dedicated to family and friends who were not seen for a long time. The poor come to the rich for alms, wishing well-being and health. Everybody prays for happiness in the future, and businessmen ask for the prosperity of their business in the New Year.
The third day is popularly known as “red mouth” – everyone spend it at home.
On the fourth day, many Chinese corporations stop the celebration of the New Year and go back to work. This is due to the fact that the fifth and sixth days of the New Year should be given to business and wealth.
The seventh day is the day when man first set foot on the ground. Everyone notes this date as a birth of mankind.
From the eighth to the tenth day of the New Year most Chinese finish celebrating and returning to work. Those who can afford staying at home try to spend time with family, praying, lighting incense sticks and arranging fireworks.
On the thirteenth day table is served with light vegetarian dishes because people should clean their bodies from rich foods of the previous days. The whole business world is praying for the success in business.
Final on the fifteenth day begins with Feast of lights. People go out with lighted lanterns in order to save lost souls. Single women attache note with their telephone numbers to the mandarines and put mandarins into the river. Men catch mandarines, eat and go on a blind dates.
