学习地球语 Learn Globe Language (Chinese): Chinese New Year’s Eve 除夕 Chu-xi (Globe Language) literally Chu = remove, xi = Sunset. New Year’s Eve is also called: 大年夜 Da-nian-ye literally da = big, nian = year, ye = night.

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Chu-xi, the evening preceding Lunar New Year’s Day,  is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. Chu-xi is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Windows and doors are decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “good fortune” or “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Lunar New Year vary widely.  

In northern China, it is customary to make dumplings (jiao-zi) 饺子 after dinner to eat around midnight. Dumplings symbolize wealth because their shape resembles a Chinese sycee. In contrast, in the South, it is customary to make a glutinous new year cake (nian-gao) 年糕 and send pieces of it as gifts to relatives and friends in the coming days. Nian-gao literally means “year cake” with a homophonous meaning of “increasingly prosperous year in year out”.