Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve. For Chinese people, its importance and significance is no less than Christmas Eve in western countries. On this day, the people who study and work outside all come back. Buy the goods for Lunar New Year with elders together, dress up the house, and prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. The thick taste of the New Year is lingering around us. In this lively and warm festival, all the Quadranteco people wish you a good luck in the Year of the Ox. This past year was special because of the impact of Covid-19, which hit the tourism and hotel industry seriously, but fortunately, it's finally over! We not only have firm partners, but also own reliable product quality, we believe that in the New Year, the tourism and hotel industry will have a better recovery space, our hotel amenities market will also be more and more prosperous! We refuel together, together look forward to!
The main characters of the New Year's Eve are not only the families getting together, but also the sumptuous dinner! It is an important custom for the whole family to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. As the most important traditional festival in China, the Spring Festival is a good time for family reunion. Modern people are getting busier and busier, the significance of the reunion dinner on the eve of the New Year is even greater. The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is also called the New Year's Eve dinner. According to historical records, it has been the custom of having the New Year's Eve dinner at least since the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is the whole family starts work together commonly, do on a sumptuous dinner at home, although life quality and life rhythm has been revised, more and more families choose to have dinner on the eve of the New Year in the restaurant. No matter how the form of the reunion dinner changes, the heart of getting together will never change.
Although the North and the South have different New Year spending way, but they can dig out the fun from the New Year. For northerners, New Year's Eve is all about eating lots of meat, drinking lots of wine, getting together with a few families and talking about the future. New Year's Eve dinner is indispensable is homemade dumplings. In order to get lucky, people in the north put coins, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and minced meat into the dumplings. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family watched the Spring Festival Gala program. People are all happy and harmonious.
In the south, people will cook a dinner at home or have a dinner in a restaurant to have a chat with their families. The dinner is usually with hot pot or various kinds of stir-fried dishes, as well as rice cakes and sweet dumpling. The rice cakes symbolize a rising tide and the sweet dumpling symbolize a reunion. Now there are also some southerners and northerners alike, eat hot pot or enjoy the barbecue and chat with families to make this winter warm up. North and South people are the same, after the New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala program.
The Chinese New Year is coming, Spring Festival has opened the curtain! The Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year, is the most ceremonious traditional folk festival. In the Spring Festival, every family will do some preparation for the Spring Festival. For example, people will go shopping for New Year goods, and then buy some clothes for the New Year and so on. However, due to the different geographical location and environment, the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival are also different in each place.The customs of the north and the south are quite different. In the north, the purchase of the number of New Year goods that is quite large. Many stores in northern China are closed during most of the winter, and many places are unable to harvest because of the heavy snow, so, in order to survive the winter, many northern people generally buy things in large quantities to bring home. The Spring Festival in south China is relatively not so boisterous, because the ban on fireworks in recent years, the southern city of basic no fireworks sales, although there is no fireworks to create atmosphere, the south has a lot of lively spring music! No matter in the restaurant, a supermarket or other stores, the most music we heard during the Chinese New Year is the spring music, well, this feeling of boisterous is also very special.
One of the highlights of the Spring Festival is to pay a New Year call. Generally in the beginning of the New Year, the younger generation will first to the elders home, we sit together, chat about homely, eating and drinking, warm and lively. When people meet each other outside the door, they also congratulate each other with a smile, saying "Happy New Year" and "Gongxi Facai". In addition, it is said that brooms should not be used on the first day of the first lunar month, otherwise luck will be swept away. Giving and receiving red envelopes is another important part of the festival. Red envelopes represent the removal of evil, safe wishes, also represents the elders of the younger generation of blessing and love, as well as the younger generation of the elder's gratitude and wishes. In Guangdong, it is often heard that the red envelope is called Li Shi Feng in areas where Cantonese is spoken. It symbolizes good luck!
The year of the ox is a meaningful year. In the past year although we spent hardships and tribulations, but, the year of the ox we ushered in happiness and well-being! In the New Year, we shall get better and better together!
