Chinese New Year is an important lunar new year festival celebrated in China and by overseas Chinese communities. Key traditions include cleaning houses and decorating with red items for good luck, staying up late on New Year's Eve to ward off a mythical beast, lighting fireworks at midnight, eating family meals and symbolic foods, worshipping ancestors, and performing dragon dances for prosperity. Industry and manufacturing are major contributors to China's economy, producing over 70% of GDP and employing millions of people.

2. Chinese new year
• Chinese New Year is an
important traditional Chinese holiday.
In China, it is also known as the Spring
Festival, the literal translation of the
modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year
celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese
New Year's Eve, the last day of the last
month of the Chinese calendar, to
the Lantern Festival, on the 15th day of
the first month, making the festival the
longest in the Chinese calendar. Because
the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the
Chinese New Year is often referred to as
the "Lunar New Year".

3. Decoration
• After the cleaning, people will decorate
the house to welcome the New Year.
Most of the decorations are red in
color. The most popular New Year
decorations are upside down fu, dui
lian, lantern, year paint, paper
cutting, door god, etc..

4. Shou sui
• Shou Sui means after the New Year's Eve
dinner, family member will normally stay awake
during the night. Some people just stay until
the mid night, after the fireworks. According
to tales and legends, there was a mythical beast
called the "Year". At the night of New Year's
Eve, the "Year" will come out to harm
people, animals, and proprieties. Later people
found that the "Year" is afraid of red
color, fire, and loud sound. Therefore, at the
New Year's Eve night, people will launch
fireworks, put on some fires, and stay awakes
the whole night to fend of the "Year".

5. Fireworks
• Fireworks are used to drive away the
evil in China. Right after the 12:00PM of
the New Year's Eve, fireworks will be
launched to celebrate the coming of the
New Year as well as driven away the
evil. It is believed that the person who
launched the first Fireworks in the New
Year will get good luck.

6. Yummy…
• Chinese New Year Foods are very
important to Chinese people. All family
members come together to eat at this
time. Chinese newyear foods are not
only delicious but it is traditional to eat
certain foods over this festival. Chinese
Dumplings, Fish, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao
are usually seen as delicious and eaten
at this time.

7. Chinese ancestors
• The first stop of the day is the temple
to worship ancestors and welcome the
New Year. Families bring offerings of
food such has fruit, dates, and candied
peanuts and burn sticks of incense and
stacks of paper money.

8. Dragon dance
• Dragons are of course legendary
animals, but they are important to
Chinese people who think of dragons as
helpful, friendly creatures. They are
linked to good luck, long life and wisdom.

9. Trade & industries
Industry produced 72.8 percent of China’s
gross domestic product in 2005. Industry
(including mining, manufacturing, constructi
on, and power) contributed 46.8 percent of
GDP in 2010 and occupied 27 percent of
the workforce in 2007. The manufacturing
sector produced 44.1 percent of GDP in
2004 and accounted for 11.3 percent of
total employment in 2006. China is the
world’s leading manufacturer of chemical
fertilizers, cement, and steel

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