How to celebrate New Year’s Day in China; 2023 New Year’s Day holiday schedule

Speaking of New Year’s Day, I believe everyone is familiar with it. For us, welcoming the beginning of the new year is an important holiday, and New Year's Day is our official holiday. Most countries around the world celebrate New Year's Day differently, so let's take a look at how we celebrate New Year's Day today.

How to celebrate New Year's Day in China?

——The Chinese New Year celebrations include: eating reunion dinner, making dumplings and wontons, worshiping ancestors, and having reunions.

New Year’s Day is also a holiday for family reunions. Children and adults can get together for a reunion dinner because they don't have to go to work or go to school to rest at home. The elders will prepare a variety of delicious and exquisite food, and everyone can have a reunion dinner, chat with each other, and feel the joy of the festival.

New Year's Day is a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and is the beginning of a new year. Therefore, during New Year's Day, southerners will make wontons and northerners will make dumplings to celebrate the arrival of New Year's Day. In the south, wontons are usually cooked and stir-fried, while in the north, the most traditional version is dumplings served with dumpling soup, which is delicious.

In ancient times, New Year's Day was also a day to observe age, and there was a traditional custom of worshiping ancestors. Therefore, in modern times, every household will have the custom of worshiping ancestors on New Year's Day, preparing offerings, and then worshiping ancestors and gods, hoping to receive blessings from ancestors and gods.

It is now common for groups to organize activities, such as New Year’s Day parties, posting slogans celebrating New Year’s Day, or holding group activities. In the past, organized gongs and drums and collective folk dances can still be seen on TV documentaries.

2023 New Year’s Day holiday schedule

: New Year’s Day holiday from December 31, 2022 to January 2, 2023, ***3 days, Tuesday, January 3, 2023 work.

What is the origin of New Year’s Day? In fact, Yuan means beginning and dawn. New Year's Day is the first day of the year, also known as the New Calendar Year and the Gregorian Calendar Year. After the success of the Revolution of 1911, the first month of the first lunar month was designated as the Spring Festival, and January 1 of the Western calendar was designated as the New Year. On September 27, 1949, New Year's Day was recognized as a legal holiday in China. New Year's Day is also a legal holiday in many countries or regions around the world.