Happy New Year!

2025.1.28

♦ The Little New Year marks the beginning of the arrival of the Spring Festival. People make various preparations for the New Year, such as sweeping the house, cutting hair, and cutting window flowers.

♦ Steaming flower buns during the Spring Festival symbolizes reunion, good fortune, and best wishes for the new year.

♦ Before the Spring Festival, people choose a day for a thorough house cleaning, symbolizing the removal of the old year’s misfortune and the welcoming of good luck for the new year.

♦ Spring couplets are usually pasted on the 29th or 30th day of the 12th lunar month (New Year’s Eve) to express hopes for the new year and bid farewell to the old year.

♦ Setting off firecrackers on New Year’s Eve and early New Year’s Day symbolizes driving away evil spirits, bringing good fortune, and adding a festive atmosphere to the celebration.

♦ New Year’s Eve is one of the most important moments of the Chinese Spring Festival and a key point for bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new one. It is filled with an atmosphere of reunion, blessings, and celebration.