About Chinese New Year 中國新年

Chinese so called "24 solar terms" of a year contains movements of both Sun and Moon, not just moon's phase. In China we call Spring Festival or Chinese New Year the most. Sometimes we call it Nong Li (Agriculture Calendar) New Year, but never Lunar (Moon's Calendar) New Year. Contents and meanings of Chinese New Year is very rich: Complete house cleaning, put up red paper banners on the doors, giving money to the kids on the New Year Eve, wearing brand new clothes, events or activities that would keep people from bad luck and lead people towards good luck and prosperous, many kinds of special and delicious foods that you won't see in the regular days, family and friends' reunions, deliver kind greetings to your family, relatives and friends... so on and so forth.

中國所謂的一年“二十四節氣”包含了太陽和月亮的運動，而不僅僅是月相。在中國，我們最常稱春節或中國新年。有時我們稱它為農曆（農曆）新年，但從不稱其為月相新年。過年的內容和意義非常豐富：大掃除，門上貼紅聯，除夕給孩子們發紅包，穿上新衣服，趨吉避邪的活動，許多平時看不到的特色美食，親朋好友團聚，向家人，親戚和朋友問候拜年拜年......如此種種。