2. Chinese New Year

3. The Origin of Chinese New Year

4. Celebration Dine together, Speak complimentary and fortune words,
Display the Tzun-Lien (Spring Couplets),
Firecrackers,
Red bags

5. Before New Year Eve
Before Chinese New Year - every family is busy giving its house a thorough cleaning, hoping to sweep away all the ill-fortune and make way for the wishful in-coming good luck.
Decorate the doors and windows with “Spring couplets

6. January 1st
It is also called “Four Starts” - start of Year, Month, Day and Hour.
Worship your ancestors/gods (sky and earth)
Set off the firecrackers to welcome the spring
Greeting/visiting to receive red bags (Walking in the Spring, Bai-Nien)

7. January 2nd/3rd Daughter-Coming-Home-Day
Dog day - dogs get best treatment from human-beings. It is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs
Mice-wedding-day: the entire family go to bed earlier, not to disturb the wedding and have salt, rice and cake to show the harvest and shared with mice

8. January 4th/5th/6th
4th: Greeting gods - this is the day all the gods back to work, since they go back to heaven and report to the ‘Jade Emperor”
5th: people stay home to welcome the “God of Wealth”, shops are open on this day
6th : now you can broom and clean your house.

9. January 7th/8th
7th - “Human Day” - according to old Chinese sayings, the human being was born after Heaven, Earth, chicken, dog, hog, goat, cow and horse. You should eat a soup with seven vegetables to keep all the illness away.
8th - Smooth Stars Day: After the dark, stars coming out in the sky, every family will provide the star-shape cakes with 49 lamps or 108 lantern on the table. Everyone will wish their dream come true from the stars of their own

10. January 9 - 14 9th - Birthday of Jade Emperor
10th- Open-light ceremony for the new born babies for their bright future
11th - Invite your son-in-law for dinner
12th - nothing special (maybe Nintendo Day)
13th- Try to light the lantern
14th- ok, how about game-boy

11. January Lantern Festival
Lantern Display, contest
Lantern Riddle Contest