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Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or the
Spring Festival, one of the traditional Chinese holidays,
is celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese
calendar, which falls on the day on which the second new moon
after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless
there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up
to the New Year.
Chinese New Year, Celebrated internationally, including in
Chinatowns, Chinese New Year is the most important holiday
of the Chinese people, and many East Asians such as Mongolians,
Koreans and Vietnamese who have holidays which fall on the
same day.
Around the New Year, Chinese people greet each other with:
"Congratulations and be prosperous"and "Happy
New Year" .
 Traditionally,
red packets are passed out during the Chinese New Year's celebrations,
from married couples to unmarried people. Chinese New Year
is celebrated with firecrackers, dragon dances and lion dances.
Typically the game of mahjong is played.
A reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve where members
of the family, near and far, get together for celebration.
The New Year's Eve dinner is very large and traditionally
includes chicken. Fish is a homophone for phrases which could
mean "be blessed every year" or "have profit
every year".
First New Year's day is also celebrated within the family.
Usually family members gather on the morning of New Year's
Day. It is at this gathering that red packets are given to
unmarried members of the family. The age of the recipient
is not material to receiving the packets. Married couples
usually give out two red packets on the first new year after
being married. This is because the wife presents one and the
husband presents one. In subsequent years they may give one
as a couple.
No matter how globalized or internationalized or modernized
Chinese people has become, Spring Festival will forever be
the most important occasion and holiday for Chinese people，so
Chinese-New-Year.org would like to tell our visitors both
in China and all across the world that you should join us
for the celebration of all Spring Festival.
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