It is an important custom to set off firecrackers and fireworks during the Chinese New Year period. Chinese New Year celebrations would not be complete without them.
Why Light Firecrackers on Chinese New Year?
In traditional Chinese culture, firecrackers were originally used to scare away evil spirits.

As the legend goes, a monster called Nian…[阅读更多]

Celebrating Chinese New Year with Chinese friends can be great, but, when the cultural gap is large, it can be really easy to give the wrong gift for Chinese New Year.

Here, we’ve summarized 15 things you should not give as a Chinese New Year gift and their negative meanings in Chinese culture. Make sure that you don’t give the wrong gift. For…[阅读更多]

A red envelope (hongbao in Mandarin, lai see in Cantonese, and ang pow in Hokkien) is a gift of money inserted into an ornate red pocket of paper. They are given on some important occasions, such as Chinese New Year, birthdays, and weddings in China and some other Asian countries as a way to send good wishes.

The color red symbolizes energy,…[阅读更多]

If one were to choose only one day of the two-week-long Chinese New Year festival to go home to visit family, this would be it. The daytime before the reunion dinner (and immediately preceding days if the journey home is longer) see the most crowded roads, bus stations, train stations, and airports of the whole year, as everyone anxiously makes th…[阅读更多]

Southeast Asian countries with a significant Chinese population celebrate Chinese New Year with similar traditions.

Singapore and Malaysia observe a 2-day holiday from January 29th to 30th in 2025.

Indonesia has a day public holiday on  January 29th, 2025.

Thailand designates Chinese New Year (January 29th in 2025) as a regional public holi…[阅读更多]