How to Celebrate Spring Festival in China

Spring Festival is the greatest traditional festival in China. Traditionally, Spring Festival refers to the time from Winter Sacrifice on the eighth day of twelfth month to the fifth day of the first month next year in lunar calendar.

During Spring Festival, people will hold activities to celebrate it. The folk cultures activities include setting off fireworks, putting up couplets, having reunion dinner, enjoying beautiful lanterns on Lantern Festival, giving lucky money to children and so on. In China, more than 30 peoples in the 56 peoples celebrate Spring Festival.

The Laba Rice Porridge Festival

Spring Festival starts on the eighth day of the eight day of the twelfth month in lunar calendar. Laba rice porridge has an enormous influence in the folk. On this day, people will have a bowl of Laba rice porridge. Since Song Dynasty, having Laba rice porridge has become very popular on this day in China. Laba rice porridge presents people yearn for nice dreams.

Spring Festival couplets

Before Spring Festival, people will write good-luck sayings in antithesis on red papers and paste them on the door of the yard. Pasting Spring Festival couplets is an important ceremony of Spring Festival.

New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve refers to the last night of year in lunar calendar. It is the busiest day in the preparation for Spring Festival. On this day, people clean house, paste Spring Festival couplets and arrange visiting activities in the first month of the lunar year prepare New Year's Eve dinner, make dumplings for next day.

Setting off fireworks

Setting off fireworks is an important ceremony in Spring Festival and it is a symbol of a new start. It has had more 2000 years’ history in China.

Eating dumplings on the first day of the New Year in lunar calendar

In the north of China, eating dumplings on the first day of the New Year in lunar calendar is a tradition. Dumplings stand for reunion, happiness, ringing out the old year and ringing in the New Year and so on.

There are so many activities in Spring Festival. Besides the above activities, people also pay visit to relatives and friends, visit temple fairs and so on.

• Real-time online consultation is conducting, join us
• Our first trial--online medical consultation for people with kidney disease
• Teleconsultation in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital
• Opportunity for the Further on the Treatment of Diabetes and CKD
• How to Get the Chance of Expert Consultation