Chinese New Year Celebration

Like every year Chinese New Year celebration 2011 will be at peak starting from 3rd February for the next 15 days till the moon gets brightest.
Chinese people enjoy a week long holiday for this festival to prepare for the celebrations of the New Year around the world. During Chinese New Year party, Chinese masks are an inevitable aspect of Chinese culture.


During the colorful celebrations of the Chinese festival around the world, people wear masks made up of varied materials including cloth, paper, grass, leather, metal, shell, and carved of stone or wood painted with Chinese symbolic designs and vivid colours. Some have realistic human or animal appearance.
Red is favorite color for Chinese people and that clearly appears in the masks they make. Chinese New Year celebrations around the world reflect the belief of Chinese people on gods, spirits of ancestors, legendary beings, good or evil, the dead, animal spirits, and on the beings who are believed to have supreme power over human beings.

These traditional masks reflecting such supreme powers are not only respected but are also worn during the various rituals performed in Chinese New Year party. Chinese people organize delicious feast on Chinese New Year eve along with the family members. They fire crackers to remove darkness from their lives during Chinese New Year party. They greet friends, relatives visiting their houses and the streets are flooded with cheerful people on the occasion of Chinese New Year party.



At last on the day of Lantern festival, they prepare a special cake called Yuan Xiao and all the family members eat a part of it which symbolizes that they will stick together always.