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Chūn jié Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

春节. Chūn jié Spring Festival (Chinese New Year). A Selection of Something Done During The Spring Festival. 1. 扫 尘 (House Cleaning) 2. House decorations: 贴门神 (door-god); 春联 (couplets); 贴剪纸 (Paper-cut); 中国结 (Chinese Knot); 3. Other activities:

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Chūn jié Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

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  1. 春节 Chūnjié Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

  2. A Selection of Something DoneDuring The Spring Festival 1. 扫尘 (House Cleaning) 2. House decorations: 贴门神(door-god);春联(couplets); 贴剪纸(Paper-cut); 中国结(Chinese Knot); 3. Other activities: 年夜饭family reunion meal; 守岁(stay up late at new year’s eve); 放鞭炮(Setting firecrackers); 木偶戏(Puppet Shows)

  3. 1.扫尘 Sao-chen • During the Spring Festival, days before the new year, every family is busy cleaning house(扫尘 sao-chen) in the hope of getting rid of defilements and preventing diseases.

  4. 扫尘 sao-chen

  5. 2. House decorations • People would paste door-god(门神men-shen), spring festival couplets(春联chun-lian), and the reversed Chinese character “福” (means blessing),and hang Chinese knot(中国结zhong-guojie) in the hope of praying for auspiciousness in the New Year. 门神 福 中国结 春联

  6. 门神 men-shen

  7. 贴春联tie chun-lian One of the house decorations is to post couplets (联lian)on doors. On the couplets, good wishes are expressed. New Year couplets(春联chunlian)are usually posted in pairs as even numbers are associated with good luck and auspiciousness in Chinese culture.

  8. 贴剪纸 tie jian-zhi People in north China are used to posting paper-cut (剪纸jian-zhi) on their windows. When sticking the window decoration paper-cuts, people paste on the door large red Chinese character “福”(fu). A red "福" means good luck and fortune...

  9. 中国结(ChineseKnot) 中国结(zhong-guojie)is a folk decorations of handicraft art. • Every knot is made of a single rope and named by its specific form and meaning. • an unique auspicious ornament represents beauty, idea and wishes. • In spring festival, it is used as wall hanging or door hanging, etc.

  10. 中国结()

  11. 3. Since new year’s Eve • On the New Year‘s Eve(除夕chu-xi), every family enjoys a New Year’s Eve Dinner (年夜饭nian-ye-fan), shoots off firecrackers(鞭炮bian-pao), plays dragon dance(舞龙wu-long) and lion dance(舞狮wu-shi), and stays up late or all night(守岁shou-sui).

  12. 年夜饭nian-ye-fan

  13. 饺子 汤圆 饺子 Jiao-zi Tang-yuan Jiao-Zi

  14. 守岁shou-sui

  15. 放鞭炮 bian-pao

  16. 舞狮wu-shi舞龙wu-long

  17. 木偶戏(Puppet Shows)

  18. Which part do you like best for spring festival? Why? • What difference do you find among Chinese spring festival and western New Year Festival and Christmas Holiday?

  19. Thank you!

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