Chinese New Year 2024 is on Saturday, February 10,there’s no set date for Chinese New YearAccording to the Lunar calendar, the Spring Festival is on January 1st and lasts until the 15th (the full moon). Unlike western holidays such as Thanksgiving or Christmas, when you try to calculate it with the solar (Gregorian) calendar, the date is all over the place.
The Spring Festival is a time reserved for families. There is the reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, visits to in-laws on the 2nd day and neighbors after that. Stores reopen on the 5th and society basically goes back to normal.
Family is the basis of the Chinese society, which is seen through the significance placed on the New Year’s Eve dinner or Reunion dinner.This feast is extremely important to the Chinese. All family members must come back. Even if they truly can’t, the rest of the family will leave their spot empty and place a spare set of utensils for them.
In the legend of the Spring Festival’s origin, this was when the monster Nian would come and terrorize the villages. The people would hide in their homes, prepare a feast with offerings to the ancestors and gods, and hope for the best.
Food is one of the things that the Chinese take the most pride in. And of course, lot of care and thought is put into the menu for the most important holiday of the year.
Though every region (even household) have different customs, there are some common dishes seen on every table，such as spring rolls, dumplings, steamed fish, rice cakes, etc.Every year before the Spring Festival, all employees of Ruiyuan Company gather together to make and eat dumplings, hoping for everything to go well in the new year.We wish you all a Happy New Year and we will redouble our efforts to provide you with high-quality products and services in the new year.
Post time: Feb-02-2024