Here is the list of day-to-day of Chinese New Year Celebration:-
Chinese New Year's Eve: Family's Reunion Dinner
CNY's Eve is known as CHU XI, the last day of Chinese Lunar Calender. At this day, families usually get together to have reunion dinner, includes family members who are working at oversea. To catch up anything they have missed with their elders, the adults will chatting, playing mahjong, playing cards and enjoying the reunion moments while children busy playing firecrackers.
1st Day of Chinese New Year: Celebrates the Beginning of A Year
After Midnight of CNY's Eve, families will set off some firecrackers to mark the New Year. This is to drive out evil spirits from their house and welcoming gods of heaven and earth to their house. On the morning, everyone had to visit their older and more seniors members of their extended family, mostly their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on. The younger generation have to wish the elder generation a happy new year and at the same time getting HONG PAO in returns.
2nd Day of Chinese New Year: Visiting Friends and Relatives
The second day of CNY is known as KAI NIAN, meaning the beginning of the year and also known as YING XU RI meaning the day to welcome son-in-law. Some people will have to undergo this day where the married daughters will visit their parental home with their husband. Nowadays, most people visits both of their parents on 1st Day of CNY.
3rd Day of Chinese New Year: Staying at Home
People rarely go out on the third day as it was known as CHI KOU RI which means easy to cause unnecessary quarrel and fights. Thus, most of the older people will prefer to stay at home.
4th Day of Chinese New Year: Worshiping Gods
This day is the auspicious day where people welcome the kitchen god, the god of fortune and other gods to their house. Plus, people can go clean their house and gather all the rubbish in one place and throw them all which symbolize throwing the bad luck and possible poverty of this year.
5th Day of Chinese New Year: Festival of Po Wu
The fifth day of CNY is the day where people can break the taboo such us women can freely to drop around and go shopping whole day. Most of the people are start working and operate their business on this day.
6th Day of Chinese New Year: Sending Away the Ghost of Poverty
The sixth day of CNY is the day to throw away their ragged clothes, rubbish and other unwanted things. They believed it will send sway poverty in the past and welcome the beautiful day in a new year.
7th Day of Chinese New Year: The Day of Human
Seventh day of CNY is known as REN RI means the day of human. In short, birthday to all human being on the earth.
8th Day of Chinese New Year: Celebrating the Birthday of Millet
Eighth day of CNY is an important day to ancient China whereby looking at the weather to determine the whole year will bring good harvest or not. If this day is bright and clear means that there will be a good harvest throughout the year whereas the weather is cloudy and rainy, then they will suffer from poor harvest.
9th Day of Chinese New Year: The Birthday of Jade Emperor, The Supreme Deity of Taoism
At the midnight of 8th day of CNY, families will gather together to make offering and set off firecracker to celebrate Jade Emperor's birthday. Nowadays, people call this day as PAI TI GONG in Hokkein.
10th Day of Chinese New Year: The Birthday of the God of Stone
Tenth day of CNY is known as SHI BU DONG means not to move any stone. In olden days, people were forbidden to cut into mountain for rock and build house with rocks or not bad things might happen to their crops.
11th Day of Chinese New Year: Fathers-in-Law to Entertain Sons-in-Law
The eleventh day of CNY is the day where fathers-in-law entertain sons-in law. Since there is a lot of food left on the 9th day of CNY, thus the leftover will be used to entertain the sons-in-law.
12th Day of Chinese New Year: Preparing for the Lantern Festival
13th Day of Chinese New Year: Seeing Lanterns
14th Day of Chinese New Year: Celebration of Lantern Festival I
15th Day of Chinese New Year: Celebration of Lantern Festival II
Fifteenth day of CNY is known as YUAN XIOA JIE/SHANG YUAN JIE means Lantern Festival. This day where people enjoying looking at the colorful lanterns and fly Kongming Lantern which written all the beautiful wishes. Plus, it also known as CHAP GOH MEI in Hokkien, means the fifteenth night where the younger generation will get acquainted. In short, romantic festival. Ladies who is still single will throw the oranges into the sea. Some of it might have contact numbers and date to meet. While, the guys who is still single will try to pick up the oranges in the sea and look for beautiful dates. After the fifteenth day of CNY, this mark the end of Chinese New Year.
As you can see, there are 6 out of 16 days of Chinese New Year are very important days to our modern people. The first 3 days from Chinese New Year Eve till the 2nd day of Chinese New Year are very important to all Chinese people as these days allow us to have reunion and family moment which we have missed out throughout the year since everyone are busy with their daily lives.
The seventh day of CNY is the day where all human beings are born. Thus, it's everybody birthday. The ninth of CNY is the day we celebrate Jade Emperor's birthday and also it is important day to the Hokkien people to thanks the Jade Emperor of saving them from bandits raid in Ming Dynasty. The fifteenth day of CNY is the last day of CNY and young people get acquainted.
Here, I would like to said:-
GONG XI FA CHAI!! HENG!! ONG!! HUAT!!!!
