2024 Chinese Lunar New Year - Year of the Dragon

2024 Chinese Lunar New Year - Year of the Dragon

The Spring Festival is the grandest and most distinctive traditional festival among Chinese folk, and it is also the festival that every Chinese attaches the most importance to. On December 22, 2023 local time, the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly designated the Spring Festival (Lunar New Year) as a United Nations holiday.2024 is the Year of the Dragon on the Chinese lunar calendar, so what are the special customs during the traditional Chinese Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is coming, the family members who work outside will travel thousands of miles to return home for the reunion. So, you're going to see the biggest population movement in the world at this point. Whether it is the highway or high-speed rail, it is full of people carrying luggage and New Year goods to rush home. Their faces are filled with happy smiles, even if they encounter snow, traffic jams or even train tickets without seats, they will choose to go home for the New Year.

Spring Festival, generally refers to the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, is the first day of the year, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". From the Laba, to the Lantern Festival, are called the Chinese New Year.

During the Spring Festival, the Han people and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are ancestor worship, Thanksgiving and prayer for the elderly, family reunion, eliminating the old and the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving the blessing, and praying for a good harvest, with strong national characteristics。

Many folk customs of the Spring Festival, including drinking Laba porridge, offering sacrifices to the kitchen god, sweeping dust, sticking couplets, sticking New Year pictures, sticking blessings, New Year's Eve, eating dumplings, New Year's money, visiting temple fairs, etc

But the customs of Spring Festival in north China and South China are also very different, each region has its own New Year customs. In Zigong, south China, the city where we are. The Lantern Festival is a must-do project. Zigong has the largest and most beautiful colored lanterns, which attract countless domestic and foreign tourists to watch the lantern fair every year. We also export Zigong colored lanterns and animatronic dinosaur models all over the world.

Our Spring Festival holiday will start from February 9th to February 17th. Wish you a happy Chinese New Year!