Chinese New Yearin Guangzhou

Like any country, the Chinese New Year in Guangzhou is celebrated among much joy and is very close to everyone’s heart. This nationwide festival is celebrated in the first day of the lunar calendar and usually lasts for a couple of days marked by a number of fun events, entertainment and family and friends gatherings. The festival is also known as the Spring Festival.

Features of Chinese New Year in Guangzhou

- Other events of the festival comprise of traditional and customary Chinese dances like lion dancing and dragon dancing. The age old Yangge Dancing is also performed as a part of the religious side of the festival and is meant to ward off evil spirits.

- As a part of the festivity preparations the houses are cleaned and purified. The common people get new clothes for themselves and decorate their houses with red lanterns. The temples are crowded by devotees during his time and they pray for a good year full of peace, health and wealth. The religious red scrolls in which couplets of poems are written are put up on either side of the entrance gates.

- The New Year is welcomed and the old bid adieu with a bursting of fire crackers. The crackers light up the night sky and are a spectacular sight to watch.

- The following days of festivity are full of visits to relatives, exchanging gifts and doing a lot of partying. The younger ones seek the blessings of the elders for a prosperous life.

- Other events during the festival period consists of fairs often the venue of which is the local Temple.