How to Celebrate Chinese New Year This Year

Rhyming Couplets

On February 11, which is the Chinese New Year’s Eve, you can follow tradition and take part in composing Rhyming Couplets, or the Spring Festival Couplets, known as Chunlian. A pair of poetry lines are written vertically, in golden characters on red paper, and pasted on both sides of the front door. The meaning of the lines must be related and antithetical. 

Enjoy Traditional and Delicious Eats

Dinner brings people together to think back on everything that has happened and look forward to all that is to come. For an authentic experience, a dish to cook and celebrate the Chinese New Year with is whole fish—one of the most important symbolic dishes. It is interesting to note that fish is pronounced ‘yú’, which is the same pronunciation for the word ‘leftover’. The idea being that you want an abundance of food and wealth so that it carries you into the new year.

Shop for the Ox

What better way to celebrate the Year of the Ox than treating yourself and your loved ones to a gift. You can shop for Chinese New Year themes to make the perfect present. It could be a handbag with a red envelope tucked inside or a traditional print; or maybe watches and jewelry that depicts a quirky ox or cultural flowers; and you can even go for designer apparel and accessories, all decorated with a subtle ox.