Question

how do we celebrate Chinese new year what is the story behind it​

Answer 1

HEYA DEAR MATEY..........

HOW IS CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATED?

ANSWER:

The main Chinese New Year activities include

1. Putting up decorations

2) eating reunion dinner with family on New Year's Eve

3) firecrackers and fireworks

4. giving red envelopes and other gifts.

Public celebrations:  In many Chinese cities, from New Year's Day, traditional performances can be seen: dragon dances, lion dances, and imperial performances like an emperor's wedding. A great variety of traditional Chinese products are on offer, and rarely seen Chinese snacks. City parks and temple fairs are the places to go for this.

THE STORY BEHIND IT:

It is unclear when exactly the celebration of the New Year began in China. Its celebration is said to have originated from the year end religious ceremony observed during the Shang Dynasty (1766 BC - 1122 BC). Some believe that the practice began as early as the period of Emperor Yao and Shun's (~2300 BC) reigns. When the tradition first began, the date of the New Year celebration varied from mid-winter to early spring. However, the maturity of the solar base calendar provided Emperor Wu (157 BC - 87 BC) of the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220) with a consistent means to measure a period of a year. Hence, he established the first day of the first month of the traditional Chinese calendar as the beginning of the year, and Chinese New Year remains celebrated accordingly to this day. The following is a brief list of developments in New Year celebrations at different points in history:

Emperor Yao and Emperor Shun (~ 2300 BC):

Small scale New Year celebration type activities.

Shang Dynasty (1766 BC - 1122 BC):

New Year celebrations started as a result of religious observances.

Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220):

New Year celebrations are officially established as the first day of the first month (of the traditional Chinese calendar) and crack bamboo appeared (crack bamboo will create a loud cracking sound when set on fire. It is believed that the sound drives away evil).

1.Wei Dynasty (220 - 265) and Jin Dynasty (265 - 420):

2.Fireworks are used in New Year celebrations. The tradition of Shou Sui formed.

3.Song Dynasty (960 - 1279):

4.Origination of gun powder based fireworks .

Answer 2

chinese new year is also known as spring new year in main chinland they celebarte new yr with dragon and lights they will stick paper cut arts in their windows they stick door gods in the front door traditionally the doors will have double opening so the gods occur in pair they write word fu in caligraphy and in red balnket and hang those things in their house fu means happiness and fortune they eat fruits named kumquatts which means luck they will set laterns too hope this helps u