1. Guò Nián Hǎo! Happy Chinese New Year!

2. Guò Nián Hǎo! The most important festival for Chinese people just like Christmas in the West.

3. Guò Nián Hǎo! Time: The 1 st day of the 1 st lunar month ( one month later than the Gregorian calendar)

4. Guò Nián Hǎo! It was on 14 th of February 2010.

5. Guò Nián Hǎo! Chinese New Year 2010 is Year of Tiger

6. Guò Nián Hǎo! Papercut-Tiger

7. Guò Nián Hǎo! Papercut-Tiger

8. Guò Nián Hǎo! Papercut-Tiger

9. Guò Nián Hǎo! Papercut – Tiger

10. Family Reunions! “about 2.17 billion people are expected to travel to and from home in 40 days this year” “The railways expect to carry 156 million passengers this year” ---- China Economic Net

11. Guò Nián Hǎo! They are buying train tickets!

12. Migrant workers return home

13. Guò Nián Hǎo! Bus station

14. Guò Nián Hǎo! Airport

19. Spring Festival couplets

20. Guò Nián Hǎo! Spring Festival couplets

22. Everything goes well East Spring South Summer West Autumn North Winter given good assistance fortune

23. The character “ Fú ” is a must! 福 Fú (happiness) is pasted on the door

24. The character “ Fú ”- happiness

28. New Year’s Eve feast Chinese people attach great importance to New Year’s Eve or Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together.

29. New Year’s Eve feast The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish cannot be excluded.

30. New Year’s Eve feast

35. Hóngbāo - Red Packet On New Year, everyone dresses up. First they say “ Guò Nián Hǎo! ” (Happy New Year!) to extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get “ Hóngbāo ” with money in it as a New Year gift!

36. Hóngbāo - Red Packet

43. Jiǎozi - Dumplings People in north China will eat Jiǎozi

44. Jiǎozi - Dumplings

49. Jiǎozi

52. Making Jiǎozi

53. Why eat Jiǎozi ?

54. ? In sound it means “bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new” Also, the shape of “Jiǎozi ” is like a gold ingot from ancient China.

56. Nián gāo – New Year cake Southern Chinese eat Nián gāo.

57. Nián gāo – New Year cake

67. Why eat “Nián gāo” ? nián: year gāo : high / higher “Nián gāo” is homophonic with “higher and higher, one year after another”

68. Celebrations Burning fireworks! Lion dancing Dragon lantern dancing Temple fairs

69. Guò Nián Hǎo! China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.