#FOR THE NEW LUNAR REPUBLIC WINDOWS#

#FOR THE NEW LUNAR REPUBLIC WINDOWS#

Then the tradition grew when New Year was approaching, and the villagers would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns, and red spring scrolls on windows and doors and used firecrackers and drums to frighten away the Nian. The villagers then understood that Yanhuang had discovered that the Nian was afraid of the color red and loud noises. They assumed that the old man was a deity who came to save them. The day after, the villagers came back to their town and saw that nothing had been destroyed. The old man put red papers up and set off firecrackers. An older man appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that he would stay the night and would get revenge on the Nian. One year, all the villagers decided to hide from the beast. The Nian would eat villagers, especially children in the middle of the night. Hand-written Chinese New Year's poetry pasted on the sides of doors leading to people's homes, Lijiang, YunnanДЄccording to tales and legends, Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian (a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains) during the annual Spring Festival. In the Gregorian calendar, the Chinese New Year begins at the new moon that falls between 21 January and 20 February. In more than 96 percent of the years, Chinese New Year's Day is the closest date to a new moon to lichun ( Chinese: з«‹жҐ ' start of spring') on 4 or 5 February, and the first new moon after dahan ( Chinese: е¤§еЇ’ ' major cold'). The Chinese calendar defines the lunar month containing the winter solstice as the eleventh month, which means that Chinese New Year usually falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice (rarely the third if an intercalary month intervenes). The calendar is also used in countries that have been influenced by, or have relations with, ChinaВ вЂ“ such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Vietnam, though occasionally the date celebrated may differ by one day or even one moon cycle due to using a meridian based on a different capital city in a different time zone or different placements of intercalary months.

The lunisolar Chinese calendar determines the date of Chinese New Year. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.Д¬hinese New Year eve in Meizhou on 8 February 2005. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding the New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. The festival was traditionally a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. The Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries that house significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, including Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Mauritius, and Canada as well as in North America and Europe. Д¬hinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in China, and has strongly influenced Lunar New Year celebrations such as the Losar of Tibet ( Tibetan: аЅЈаЅјај‹аЅ‚аЅ¦аЅўај‹), and of China's neighbouring cultures, including the Korean New Year ( Korean: м„¤л‚ , seollal), and the Tбєїt of Vietnam. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from New YearвЂ™s Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year.

In Chinese culture and Asian countries within Sinosphere, the festival is also commonly referred to as Spring Festival ( traditional Chinese: жҐзЇЂ simplified Chinese: жҐиЉ‚ pinyin: ChЕ«n JiГ©) as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Lunar New Year. 'Chinese New Year' in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese charactersД¬hinese New Year ( traditional Chinese: ж–°е№ґ, дёењ‹е‚ізµ±ж–°е№ґ simplified Chinese: ж–°е№ґ, дёе›Ѕдј з»џж–°е№ґ pinyin: XД«nniГЎn, zhЕЌngguГі chuГЎntЗ’ng xД«nniГЎn ), Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year, is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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