1 / 17

CHINESE CULTURE LINK Chinese New Year ( Chinese Spring Festival ) 中国春节 /chun jié/

CHINESE CULTURE LINK Chinese New Year ( Chinese Spring Festival ) 中国春节 /chun jié/. Tai Lam CHIN101-14SP. www.gmw.cn. www.wenming.cn. www.youlinmagazine.com. www.ifchina.net. travel.china.com. CHINESE CULTURE LINK Chinese New Year ( Chinese Spring Festival ) 中国春节 /chun jié/.

morgan
Download Presentation

CHINESE CULTURE LINK Chinese New Year ( Chinese Spring Festival ) 中国春节 /chun jié/

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CHINESE CULTURE LINK Chinese New Year (Chinese Spring Festival) 中国春节/chun jié/ Tai Lam CHIN101-14SP

  2. www.gmw.cn

  3. www.wenming.cn

  4. www.youlinmagazine.com www.ifchina.net

  5. travel.china.com

  6. CHINESE CULTURE LINK Chinese New Year (Chinese Spring Festival) 中国春节/chun jié/ • Chinese New Year: • An important traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the first day of the year of the Chinese calendar. • Chinese new year: Spring Festival / chunjié/ • Dated from: Chinese New Year’s Eve to 15th day of the first month, called Lantern Festival • date changed compared with Gregorian Calendar. • Based on Lunar Calendar, based on the moon’s orbit around the earth. • Chinese New Year is celebrated where Chinese-culture is influenced: CN, HK, TW, KR, VN, ML, IN, PH • Considered major holiday for the Chinese.

  7. Festivities: • Preceding days • On the eighth day of the lunar month prior to Chinese New Year, a traditional porridge known as làbāzhōu (腊八粥) is served in remembrance “of an ancient festival, called Là. shortly after the winter solstice 冬至 /dongzhì/ • A week before the new year starts, /Zàojun/ (King of Kitchen) • Reunion Dinner (年夜饭）： New Year's Eve dinner

  8. 2。First day年初一 /Nián Chuyi/ Welcoming of the Gods of the heavens and earth To honor one's elders and families 3. Second day Known as kāinián (开年) "beginning of the year", was when married daughters visited their birth parents, relatives and close friends. (Traditionally, married daughters didn't have the opportunity to visit their birth families frequently.) 4. Third day Known as Chìkǒu (赤口), directly translated as "red mouth". considered an unlucky day to have guests or go visiting.

  9. Red envelopes Red envelopes or red packets (利是 lìshì) or 'hóngbāo' (红包) passed out during the Chinese New Year's celebrations, from married couples or the elderly to unmarried juniors. It is also common for adults or young couples to give red packets to children. also known as 压岁钱 (yàsuìqián) literally, the money used to suppress or put down the evil spirit during this period.

  10. Dragon dance Lion dance It is believed that the loud beats of the drum and the deafening sounds of the cymbals together with the face of the Dragon or lion dancing aggressively can drive away bad or evil spirits.

  11. 挥春 Huichun

  12. 生意兴隆/Shēnyì xīnglóng/ Business prospers一本万利/ Yìběn wànlì/ May you make great profits恭喜发财/ Góngxǐ fācái / Wishing you prosperity招财进宝/ Zhāocái jìnbǎo/ May treasure be plentiful花开富贵/ Huākāi fùguì/ Fortune comes with blooming flowers出入平安/ Chùrù píng’an/ Wishing you safety wherever you go万事如意/ Wànshì rúyì/ Everything goes as you hope和气生财/ Héqì shēngcái / Harmony brings wealth金玉满堂/ Jīnyù mǎntáng / Treasures fill the home心想事成/ Xīnxiǎng shìchéng/ May all your wishes come true龙马精神/ Lóngmǎ jīngshén/ Energy of a dragon and a horse

  13. 祝你新年快乐 Zhùnǐxīnniánkuàilè I wish you a Happy New year

  14. 谢谢 xièxie

More Related