The period around Chinese New Year is also the time of the largest human migration, when migrant workers in China, as well as overseas Chinese around the world travel home to have reunion dinners with their families on Chinese New Year’s eve. More interurban trips are taken in mainland China in this 40-day period than the total population of China. This period is called Chunyun.
Festivities
The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as “new-year visits”. New clothing are usually worn to signify a new year. The colour red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elders. See Symbolism below for more explanation.
All these festivities may vary from region to region and from family to family.
Visitors look at lanterns in the shape of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors at Sydney Harbour on February 13, 2015. The artworks, created for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 by a team of Chinese artists, is on display for the first time in Australia to launch the Australian celebrations of the Lunar New Year of the Sheep.
Visitors look at lanterns in the shape of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors at Sydney Harbour on February 13, 2015. The artworks, created for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 by a team of Chinese artists, is on display for the first time in Australia to launch the Australian celebrations of the Lunar New Year of the Sheep
Visitors look at lanterns in the shape of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors at Sydney Harbour on February 13, 2015. The artworks, created for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 by a team of Chinese artists, is on display for the first time in Australia to launch the Australian celebrations of the Lunar New Year of the Sheep.
Visitors look at lanterns in the shape of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors at Sydney Harbour on February 13, 2015. The artworks, created for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 by a team of Chinese artists, is on display for the first time in Australia to launch the Australian celebrations of the Lunar New Year of the Sheep
Women dressed as Chinese ladies are seen at Sydney Harbour on February 13, 2015. Lanterns in the shape of the Chinese Terracotta Warriors, created for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 by a team of Chinese artists, are on display for the first time in Australia to launch the Australian celebrations of the Lunar New Year of the Sheep
Wishes tied to plastic oranges hanging from the branches of a special tree in the remote village of Lam Tsuen of Hong Kong new territories
A woman hangs wish tablets traditionally used to pray for wealth and good fortune on a fence built around a tree on the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year
A woman burns incense as she prays for good fortune at the Jade Buddha Temple on the third day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Shanghai
A family take pictures of their wishes tied to plastic oranges hanging from the branches of a special tree in the remote village of Lam Tsuen of Hong Kong new territories
Chinese performers re-enact a traditional Qing Dynasty ceremony in which emperors prayed for good fortune at the Temple of Heaven as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing on February 21, 2015
Chinese performers re-enact a traditional Qing Dynasty ceremony in which emperors prayed for good fortune at the Temple of Heaven as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing on February 21, 2015
Chinese performers re-enact a traditional Qing Dynasty ceremony in which emperors prayed for good fortune at the Temple of Heaven as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing on February 21, 2015
Chinese performers re-enact a traditional Qing Dynasty ceremony in which emperors prayed for good fortune at the Temple of Heaven as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing on February 21, 2015
Chinese performers re-enact a traditional Qing Dynasty ceremony in which emperors prayed for good fortune at the Temple of Heaven as part of the Chinese Lunar New Year festivities in Beijing on February 21, 2015
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