Chinese New years Options

[jennyjenny]

Ok, so Chinese New years is coming up SOON. I'm not sure when.

( maybe this should be in debate column? )

So, it's called CHINESE new years... so why do chinese people in general celebrate it? I mean, some of you probably don't, but yeah. But I know a lot of asian people celebrate it. And some of them are vietnamese. But if it's called CHINESE new years, shouldn't it be for chinese people?

And yeah, on chinese new years don't u like, get red envelopes, eat smelly food, pray, and then burn fake money? (that's what we do) But don't you like, pray to Buddha? I know some people who are Catholic and celebrate Chinese New years...

Do you celebrate chinese new years?

[eli5e]

im korean.. but we stil ldo it.. somtime.

[azn_r4pf4n]

yea i wanna know too. imma research sometime.

[Just_Dream]

Of course I celebrate Chinese New Years, I'm half Chinese and half Vietnamese. It's somewhere at the end of January or the beginning of February. It sort of alternates, every year. Anyway, it's NOT JUST Chinese New Year. It's also Vietnamese New Year. Who are you to say that there's ONLY a Chinese New Year? It just so happens that Vietnamese New Years falls on the same days as Chinese New Years. And there's also a Cambodian New Year, but I don't know when that is. I'm guessing.. maybe around April? I'm not sure, but a Khmer friend of mines celebrated it. I heard that Chinese New Year might be on February 9th, I'm not sure.

I don't think you've really understood the true meaning(s) about Chinese New Year. Maybe to you it's all about getting money in red envelopes and eating food. But there's so much more to it.

At about.com, it says:

Chinese New Year is the first day of the lunar calendar, so it is also called the Lunar New Year. And it is also referred to as the Spring Festival since it is the beginning of the Spring term, which is the first term of the 24 terms on the lunar canlendar.

It was recorded that Chinese started to celebrate Chinese New Year from about 2000 BC, though the celebrations were held on different times under different emperors. They started to celebrate Chinese New Year on the first day of the lunar calendar based on Emperor Wu Di's almanac of the Han Dynasty.

Legend says the celebrations of Chinese New Year may be related to a beast known as Nian. The beast Nian came out to eat people on new years until an old man found a way to conquer it. Then people started to observe and celebrate Chinese New Year. The word "Nian" now has the same meaning as Chinese New Year, which is used as commonly as Chinese New Year. And people often use the term "Guo Nian", which may originally mean "passed or survived the Nian". Now everyone loves Guo Nian.

4. Red Packets
Giving Hongbao or red packets during Chinese new year is another tradition. A Red packet is simply a red envelope with money in it, which symbolizes luck and wealth. Red packets are typically handed out to younger generation by their parents, grand parents, relatives, and even close neighbors and friends.

the Chinese New Year is the second New Moon after the winter solstice.

Maybe you should consider researching up on it, if you really want to know WHY things are the way they are. It's basically revolving around luck and religion, in my opinion. My family is Buddhist, after all.

[nevernothere]

Chinese New Year's is like February 8th or 9th this year I think... can't remember.. I celebrate Chinese New Year's 'cuz I'm like a mix of Taiwanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese.. but we're not Buddhist.. so we just set off fireworks, stay home and eat, and I get those envelopes.. which we call "hohng-bao".. and of course there's money inside.

[angel-roh]

chinese new year? does american people celebrate that too? ack im confused... wait--- christina...you're chinese? O_O;; i thought you are half japanese and half vietnamese... hm ok im confused even more lol.

[jaeman]

My family does the red envelope part of the new year.

[miszkristinexox]

no i dont, but i have some viet and korean friends who celebrate it too.

[angel-roh]

oh half chinese and half vietnamese... weird when i first saw that--- i didnt say it like that oh wells but anyways i think i do celebrate it. *think* yea i do. but i dont think im gona celebrate next year. last year--- i went over to my friend's house since she was chinese... she knew what to do. so yeah heh it was fun.

[Chaos13]

of course they would celebrate it! its chinese new year! if they doen celebrate it at least change it to chinese happy happy day on calenders.

[shortee_]

yup. I celebrate it. Some time's it's annoyin for me because my grandma is like supersticious about it.

[laur3nw]

Yup, I do...we don't pray or burn fake money like you do. We ususally just have a regular dinner and get those red envelopes.
And the information Christina posted..that's why we celebrate it

[ryuusei]

my family had an early chinese new year, it was today. didnt do much except have dinner at a relatives and got those red envolopes with money. when my grandma was handing to to me, i dropped it in the food -__-;; now the adults are playing mah jong, and the kids are playing texas holdems.

i didnt wanna play so i got my mom to bring me home

$20 btw

[jr0h]

no i dont celebrate it

[xSiLLyMex]

I celebrate it. It's okay, I usually get around $200 depending on who i see. I don't like going to the temple tho, U have to go at like midnight and listen for the ppl pray. Ugh..thnkfully im not going this year.

[xj_liana_tx]

sort of now, since all my relatives are in china, well it's a tradition, i think it lasts for like a week

[whomps]

We still have like.. a month or two to go..
Yeah I celebrated Chinese New Years.. and I'm Atheist/Buddhist because my family is Buddhist and yeah. Money money money. Food food food.

[Spirited Away]

Exactly what Just_Dream said.

Other Asians call it Chinese New Years because it's a convenience like saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays, but that doesn't mean that the lunar new year is reserved just for Chinese people.

I thought everyone knew that.

[nyCzxfOx]

isnt it like called chinese new year because buddist have some other date system or something.. i dont know... i should pay attention more.. i should know alot
about this xD because when i was little i would visit taiwan and stay at a
buddist temple place.. ... yeah....

[mirage]

I think that Chinese New Year, Korean New Year, and Japanese New Year are all on the same day because the calendars are like the same. This year, it's on 2/9.

[HikaruTakekawa]

Exactly what Just_Dream said.

Other Asians call it Chinese New Years because it's a convenience like saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays, but that doesn't mean that the lunar new year is reserved just for Chinese people.

I thought everyone knew that.

uninspiredfae is right. i celebrate chinese new year and we pray to our ancestors not just buddha. people who arent buddhist still pray, not necessarily to buddha but to their ancestors for luck for the family for the new year.

[OhXiet_ItzDonnA]

of course i celebrate it even though i'm not chinese but like Just_Dream said..it could be vietnamese new year too and i'm vietnamese. i usually call it chinese new year cuz that's what i heard it was first called. my friend told me that it was gonna be on January 22 but i dont know but isnt it sad when ur school dont celebrate chinese new year when there's a few azns in the school? i do

**EDIT**

nevermind on what date it's on. i didnt know the calendar that my dad bought got the date of the new year on there but it's on February 9 but then after it, it said the 2nd day of lunar day or something like that.

[sharerol]

Of course I celebrate it. I'm Chinese.

[PurchasedRebelli...]

My family usually celebrates it.

[lilteardrop]

maybe every azn type of culture thingy celebrated it and it eventually classified as chinesenewyear?
i celebrate it though. i love the coin chocolate things!