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What will you find in a red envelope or red packet?

money

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The Chinese New Year is also called......?
The Spring Festival
100
How long is the Spring Festival?
15 days
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What is the most important and ceremonious festival in China?
The Chinese New Year (the Spring Festival)
100
When do all family members gather together to enjoy a grand meal during the Chinese New Year celebration?
New Year's eve
200

Chinese people paste new year paintings and red couplets before or after the new year day?

Before the New Year

200
The Spring Festival is ended on the day of what festival?
Lantern Festival
200
At 12 o'clock midnight on new year's eve, Chinese people will do what to "greet new days and send off old ones"?
Shoot off fire crackers
200
Why do people eat long noodle during Chinese New Year?
Long (and uncut) noodles signify long life.
200
Some Chinese people eat 水饺 (shuǐ jiǎo--dumplings) during Chinese New Year, why?
水饺 (shuǐ jiǎo--dumplings) symbolizes wealth, because its shape resemble ingots--an ancient Chinese money.
300
The date of Chinese New Year is determined by what kind of calendar?
lunar
300
Where do you paste spring couplets?
On the two sides of the door.
300
What do Chinese people eat during the Lantern Festival?
Glutinous rice ball
300
Traditionally, people will paste the character 春(chūn--spring) upside down, why?
To symbolize the spring has arrived
300

2022 is the year of .....?

tiger

400

Traditionally, married women would go visit their birth parents on which day of the Spring Festival (New Year Holiday)?

The sencond day

400

Chinese people are more likely to offer star fruit or tangerine to one another during Chinese year? (Because it represent luck and prosperity)

Tangerine

400
What is the most popular color during the Chinese new year celebration?
red
400
It is a taboo to clean one's house right before the Chinese New Year, right or wrong?
Wrong
400
There is usually a fish dish in the new year's eve dinner, this is because the word fish (鱼yú) sounds like what other word in Chinese?
余yú--which means left over, which in turn means saving for the future
500
Why would a person in China most likely ask another person what their animal sign is?
to find out his or her age
500
Traditionally, the amount of money in the red envelopes should be of even or odd numbers?
Even numbers.
500
What are the 12 animal signs?
Rat (mouse), ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat (sheep), monkey, chicken, dog, pig
500

When choosing and preparing food for the new year, besides choosing what are in season, what is the most important consideration?

The dish sounds or looks auspicious

500
How do people greet each other IN CHINESE during Chinese New Year?
新年快乐, etc.