Chinese New Year Festival Cards

Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of the year in Chinese communities. The City of Sydney's 2009 Chinese New Year Festival will be the largest celebration of the Lunar New Year outside of Asia. Chinese New Year is also named with the Chinese Spring Festival and is among the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The Chinese New Year period ends with the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the month. Send these chinese new year festival cards to your dear friends, relatives and families.

Traditional Chinese New Year Food

Chinese New Year celebrations calls for traditional chinese gatherings where traditional food add value to the new year's eve food for the family and friends. On New Year's Eve, families have a reunion feast including delicious dishes like fish, dumplings, Long noodles, lotus roots, Fish balls, meat balls, carp, nian gao and many more. It is believed that traditional Chinese New Year Food is a symbol of prosperity, good luck, happiness, good health and long life for everyone partaking in the feast. So, don't forget to add traditional chinese new year foods at your dinig table.

Chinese New Year Traditions

China is rich in its culture and traditions. Chinese New Year traditions and customs are a mixture of the family, feasts, decorations and presents giving and the foreign, Lai See and superstitions. New Year is the most important holiday for Chinese communities. Here we outline the major traditions, rituals and customs that are followed with the new year celebrations :

• Have Get together dinner on the Eve with traditional dishes including chicken and fish.
• Chinese New Year parades are annual traditions.
• Spring clean the whole home of cobwebs.
• The throwing of mandarin oranges on Chap Goh Mei (15th moon/night) is a Chinese tradition that signifies the end of the Chinese New Year.
• Lion dance is very traditional with the drums, cymbals and acrobatic moves under a brightly colored lion costume.

Chinese New Year Coloring Pages

Celebrations, events and festivals are time to craft activities for all kids. Download these fun interactive printable chinese new year coloring pages for kids to color them and enhance their art skills. Chinese new year parade, lantern festival, millenium dragon, dragon dance, Ox and other pictures for the new year craft have been given. Feel free to get the print of these online coloring pages.

Year of the Ox Cards

1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997 were the year of Oxes. The coming 2009 is also the year of Ox, the year of person who are very patient, confident, steady and stubborn. 2009 year of the earth Ox is also called 2009 year of the Bull or Buffalo. The Ox sign is the second animal sign of the Chinese Horoscope. People born in the Chinese New Year of Ox, 2009 will have the following traits in their character - Leadership qualities, dependability, great organizers, loyality as well as strong responsiblility. To know more details, please keep surfing. So get set to welcome the year and have a very prosperous New Year ahead.

Chinese New Year Horoscope

In the Chinese horoscope, the five basic elements - Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth are combined with the twelve animal signs of Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Lamb, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig to form the sixty year cycle. The Chinese calendar is based on solar and lunar cycles and thus the new year falls on a different day of the Western solar calendar each year. The Chinese horoscope isn't used for fortune telling but provides information about a person's character, talents or biases. To know about horoscope of coming year of Ox, please keep surfing. Chinese New Year Horoscope is based on your zodiac animal and other metals comsidered must in forcasting your horoscope details.

Chinese Fortune Cookies

Fortune Cookies are crisp cookies made of flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped tag containing lucky numbers, lottery numbers or some fortune words. Gigantic Fortune Cookies are very famous for personalized messages inside the cookie and being dipped in delicious chocolates and caramels. Chinese Fortune Cookies are perfect gift on this new year celebration along with a beautiful greeting card.