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Celebrations » Chinese New Year » Festival
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Chinese New Year Festival |
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As all the traditional of chinese festivals, the New Year is always the most brightest, colorful, and essential.
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This is a time for the Chinese to cheer each other and themselves on having passed through one more year, a time to end out the old, and to welcome in the new year.
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Chinese New Year Festival 2011
Chinese New Year is also called Spring event. It starts from the center of the last month of the year and ends up in the primary month of the new year.
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These final day celebrations in China is called Lantern Festival.
The festival start place in the spirit of DC's Chinatown and it includes an exhilarating parade, the Chinese Lion and Dragon Dances, as well as a four-story high firework that will be ignited at 3:45 p.m. On the occasion of this celebration more than 4,000 red packets with key chain or blessed money will be given away during the parade.
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Fun, friends, gambol and food, that all is New Year celebrations thing. The New Year's Eve and New Year's Day partying is firmly family affairs. All members of the family will meet for the important family food on the evening of the New year's Eve. Even if a family member is not present, an empty seat will be keep to symbolize that person's presence at the dinner. At midnight following the dinner, the younger members of the family will bow and give their respects to their parents and elders.
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