Traditions
The color that people for Lunar New Year.
What is red?
The number of animals in the Chinese Zodiac.
What is 12?
The food eaten on Lunar New Year that symbolizes a person's life span.
What are noodles?
An underwater beast that attacked a nearby village.
What is Nian?
The two other names that people call Lunar New Year.
What is Chinese New Year and Spring Festival?
What people pass out during the lunar new year; this item symbolizes wealth and prosperity.
What is lai see/red envelopes/红包？
This year's zodiac animal.
What is the rabbit?
A food that is eaten with some of the dish left over. It is believed that this dish should have some of it left over. Symbolizes an increase in prosperity.
What is fish?
Red banners on the front of their houses to drive evil sprits away.
What do people hang on the front of their houses?
Something that is believed be true if a married person rejects a red envelope/s.
Their luck would not be great for the new year.
The reason fireworks are set off during Lunar.
What is to scare off the the evil dragon from attacking us.
The reason why the rat was first.
What is the rat rode on the ox and jumped off at the end.
A fruit that when spoken, sounds like the Chinese word for success. Another fruit of this category contains a Chinese character that represents luck.
What are citruses?
Its when a hunter killed a heavenly swan. The Jade Emperor heard of this and wanted to burn the Earth down. The lesser Gods then warned the humans who then lit lanters to trick the Jade Emperor into thinking that the Earth was on fire.
What is the Swan and Lantern Festival?
The amount of days the Spring Festival in Lunar New Year
What is 15 days?
The reason why Chinese people avoid cutting or cleaning on the day of Lunar New Year.
What is the belief that cutting or cleaning would get rid of prosperity?
The reason the cat isn't part of the zodiac.
What is the cat slept in/ the rat betrayed the cat by pushing it into the water?
A food that is served whole and symbolizes unity and wholeness.
What is a whole chicken?
During a plague, a man put some herbs, leaves, and grains in a bag and told each of his neighbors to soak it in water and drink it on the New Year. It worked and they named the wine after the man's Tusu structure house.
What is the Spring Wine Myth?
A general rule for the amount of money in a Chinese envelope. If the amount of money is incorrect, Chinese people associate it with the amount of money given during funerals.
What is even numbers?
An action around the house that is believed to get rid of evil spirits.
What is cleaning the house?
All of the animals in the Chinese Zodiac in order.
What is the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig?
A red fruit that is known as the Chinese date. This fruit symbolizes wealth and prosperity.
What is jujube?
During the little New Year. The Stove God reports to the Jade Emperor, telling him how each family was during the year, later returnings to Earth to either bless or punish the families, as ordered by the Jade Emperor. Families will make malt candy gourds and leave it out at night. The candy will sweeten the Stove God’s mouth so he’ll only praise the family.
What is the Stove God and Candy Myth?
The last event that occurs for Lunar New Year.
What is the Lantern Festival?