Chinese New Year Activities

Chinese New Year is the most awaited celebration holidays of the year in which people enjoy shopping, gifting, decoration, gaming and other chinese new year activities for kids. Celebrate the arrival of Chinese New Year with fun crafts, special chinese new year parade, lion dancing, fun coloring and other activities.

Chinese New Year Traditions

China is rich in its culture and traditions. Chinese New Year traditions and customs are a mixture of the family, feasts, decorations and presents giving and the foreign, Lai See and superstitions. New Year is the most important holiday for Chinese communities. Here we outline the major traditions, rituals and customs that are followed with the new year celebrations :

• Have Get together dinner on the Eve with traditional dishes including chicken and fish.
• Chinese New Year parades are annual traditions.
• Spring clean the whole home of cobwebs.
• The throwing of mandarin oranges on Chap Goh Mei (15th moon/night) is a Chinese tradition that signifies the end of the Chinese New Year.
• Lion dance is very traditional with the drums, cymbals and acrobatic moves under a brightly colored lion costume.

Chinese New Year Parade

Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, Chinatown, is the largest and the most celebrated holiday of the year in China. It is the biggest event of the year which call for months prior preparations. The parade consists of largest golden dragon which is metres long carried by people. The parade also covers lion dancers, kung-fu karate, martial arts and other attractions of the event.

Chinese New Year Dragon Cards

Red Dragon is the important part of chinese new year celebrations as dragon is also a part of the chinese calendar. Golden dragon is the most happening and adorned part of the chinese parade in which metres long red dragon made of silk, bamboo and red colored frills is carried by people in a sequence that it look like a dragon is crawling. Dragon Lion Dance is the special event of the parade in which dancers wearing combination dress of lion with a face of dragon. Visitors can spread this network of chinatown famous parade through these chinese new year dragon cards.

Chinese New Year Celebration Card

Chinese New Year is celebrated on the first day of the First Moon of the lunar calendar. Chinese New year's Eve dinner is famous among families who enjoy get together and delicious feast. Light lanterns are carried or hanged by people at night with red impression light. The Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco Chinatown i.e the largest and most happening event of the year is the the parade. All visitors coming on our database are free to explore our Chinese New Year Celebration Cards.