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The Chinese New Year, marking the beginning of the lunar calendar, is celebrated worldwide with traditions promoting good luck and avoid bad fortune. Key practices include thorough cleaning before 5. Wearing new clothes and wishing others good luck. On New Year’s Day, wearing new clothes symbolizes a fresh start. Wearing red is believed to attract luck and prosperity. Greeting others “gongxi” or best wishes is thought to usher in an auspicious year. 4. Sharing Of Mandarin Oranges Attract Good Luck. Mandarin oranges symbolize wealth, good luck, long life, and prosperity.. Therefore, keeping a bowl full of mandarin oranges on your table and presenting them to everyone who comes to celebrate with you during the New Year’s celebration can go a long way in changing your fortune for good in the New Year. The Chinese New Year also referred to as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is a celebration rich in traditions and customs to bring good luck and fortune for the year ahead. Thorough Cleaning: In the weeks leading up to the New Year, homes are thoroughly cleaned to sweep away any bad luck from the previous year. Chinese people believe that there are specific things to do during Chinese Lunar New Year, in order to bring in good fortune, prosperity and happiness. No matter what your Chinese New Year animal is, the following 9 lucky things to do for Chinese New Year will help you attract good luck for the fresh new year. As the Chinese New Year approaches on Jan. 29, most of the people are looking for ways to usher in good fortune and positive energy for the upcoming year. During the Lunar New Year Lunch hosted by New World Hotel, Feng Shui expert Patrick Fernandez from the Yin and Yang Shop of Harmony shares practical advice on what to do—and what to avoid 3. To welcome the Chinese New Year 2024, you can decorate your home with some auspicious symbols that attract good luck and prosperity. For example, you can hang a red banner with the Chinese character for “fortune” (福) on your door or wall, or place a statue of a dragon in your living room. 5. Open windows. Blow in the good luck and blow out the bad the days leading up to New Year's Day (unless it's too cold to do so!) 6. Eat traditional food.. Some of the things you should eat On Chinese New Year’s Eve, it is common to open doors and windows at midnight to let the old year’s bad luck escape and allow the new year’s good fortune to enter. This practice is thought to ensure that you start the new year with a clean slate and plenty of positive energy. On the first day of Lunar New Year, Chinese people put on new clothes, and say "gongxi" (恭喜/gong-sshee/literally 'respectful joy', meaning 'greetings' or 'best wishes'), wishing each other good luck and happiness in the New Year. It is customary for the younger generation to visit their elders, and wish them health and longevity. Chinese New Year superstitions are traditional beliefs and practices observed during the Lunar New Year to bring good luck and ward off misfortune. These customs range from avoiding certain actions to performing specific rituals, all aimed at ensuring a prosperous year ahead. 20 Chinese New Year Superstitions 1. Avoid Cleaning on New Year’s Day 8 things to do for Chinese New Year to attract good fortune. To attract good fortune, happiness, and prosperity in the Year of the Snake, these eight traditions are a must: Clean your home before Chinese New Year Clear away the clutter and bad luck accumulated over the past year. In the year of Sheep, they can expect the promotion, drive a roaring trade, and gain both fame and wealth. Usually, their good luck starts in the period of age 28 to 33. Dragon For Dragons, the year of Rat means good luck in all aspects. In the year of Rooster, everything will go well and they will have good fortune. New Year's; 10 Traditions That Invite Luck & Good Vibes for Lunar New Year. Say good bye old to negative vibes, and hello new lucky energy with 10 Lunar New Year customs that invite prosperity, peace, and wellbeing. In Chinese culture, there are two new years, so here are two ways to send someone well wishes in Chinese for the dawn of a new year! 恭喜发财 / 恭喜發財 (gōng xǐ fā cái) Meaning: May you be prosperous Commonly used during Chinese New Year, this phrase wishes for prosperity and good fortune. Cleaning or sweeping on New Year's Day is considered bad luck, as it’s thought to sweep away good fortune. The same goes for doing laundry or taking out the trash — avoid these chores if you 5. Wearing new clothes and wishing others good luck. On New Year’s Day, wearing new clothes symbolizes a fresh start. Wearing red is believed to attract luck and prosperity. 2. Wear Red: Most of the people choose to dress themselves in red in the animal year, which is the most common action since the ancient times. In the eyes of Chinese, red always represents good luck and happiness. "You want to do that before the new year itself to get rid of any bad luck that came with the past year and make way for good fortune and prosperity into the new year," said Chelsea Tan, a baker In Chinese, "fish" (鱼 Yú /yoo/) sounds like 'surplus'. Fish is a traditional Chinese New Year dish on the Chinese New Year dinner menu. Chinese people always like to have a surplus at the end of the year, because they think if they have managed to save something at the end of the year, then they can make more in the next year.
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