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A Complete Guide To Chinese New Year 2025

Baopals

2025-01-13

导读：With Chinese New Year just around the corner, we’ve put together a guide on what to eat, wear, gift

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With Chinese New Year just around the corner, we’ve put together a guide on what to eat, wear, gift and how to decorate during the holiday.

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is China's most important festival. It celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. This year, the celebration falls on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

According to the Chinese zodiac cycle, 2025 is the year of the Snake! People born in the year of the snake are known to be alluring, astute, charming and thoughtful.

From all of us at Baopals, best of luck to you and Happy New Year!

How To Decorate

Red is the luckiest color in Chinese culture. The color red is believed to drive away evil spirits and bring good luck. So to welcome in the new year, people hang red lanterns in front of their homes and paste red couplets on their doors. Zodiac animals, especially the animal of the new year, are displayed as well.

Traditional Chinese Lanterns

¥25.43

Cute Snake Blessing Papers

¥15.73

Chinese New Year Small Hanging Decorations

¥11.98

Ancient Style Paper Lantern

From ¥9.24

Red Lanterns Chinese Knot LED Lights

¥7.11

Outdoor Waterproof Red Lantern

From ¥41.27

Red Couplets Spring Festival Decorations

From ¥12.54

Cute Stretchy Snake Decorations

From ¥30.54

New Year Window Decals

From ¥10.30

What To Wear

Customarily, all clothes and accessories worn on New Year’s Day should be brand new. If you don't want to spend too much, just put on something red. This is the best color for the occasion. Stay away from black and white, as they are considered unlucky.

Spring Festival also doesn't have to be super serious - throw in some fun accessories!

New Year Lantern & Firecracker Earrings

¥13.50

Festive Children's New Years Outfits

¥12.54

CNY Gong Xi Fa Cai
Hoodies

¥132.60

Year Of The Snake
T-Shirts

¥31.71

What To Gift

The go-to gift for CNY is a red envelope (hongbao) with any amount of money. Actually, the significance of red envelopes is the red paper, not the money inside. Wrapping lucky money in red envelopes is expected to bestow more happiness and blessings on the receivers.

Avoid giving amounts such as 40 yuan or 400 yuan. The number '4' in Chinese sounds like 'death', so you don't want to send that kind of message to a loved one!

Tea is always a nice gesture, whether the receivers are Chinese or not.

Want something a little more modern? Go for a gift box or make your own one.

Chinese Aesthetic Phone Cable

From ¥12.54

Chinese New Year Paper Gift Bags

¥6.04

Lapsan Tea Gift Box,
250g

¥99.72

Bamboo Decorative
Vase

¥11.37

Hanging Snake
Decorations

¥8.28

Cute Snake
Hongbao

¥5.83

What To Eat

Western holidays aren't the only ones associated with feasts! Spring Festival is the most important tummy-stuffing time of the year for the Chinese. Families gather for New Year’s Eve dinner (年夜饭 / Nián yèfàn) and Reunion dinner (团年饭 / tuán niánfàn) while also enjoying plenty of snacks throughout the holiday.

As with Chinese New Year activities and decorations, certain dishes are also associated with blessings for the next year. Both the names and looks are symbols of prosperity, happiness and good fortune.

Handmade Dumplings, 2kg

Dumplings are associated with wealth. According to tradition, the more dumplings you eat during the New Year celebration, the more money you'll earn in the New Year. Bring your appetite!

From ¥42.11

Frozen Vegetarian Spring Rolls, 500g*2

Spring rolls are eaten during Spring Festival in southern China to celebrate (no surprise) the coming of spring.

¥20.95

Nougat Candies, 500g

Have an assortment of candies for guests to pick from so you can wish them well for the coming year.

¥30.64

Sichuan Orange Gift Box, 5kg

The words for tangerine and orange in Chinese resemble the words for luck and success, respectively. Their bright color also symbolizes gold, hence the fruits have a meaning of bringing good luck and wealth.

From ¥101.63

CNY Nut Gift Boxes

As everyone has about 10 days of holidays, cracking and snacking on nuts while chatting with family is a common way to pass time.

From ¥218.87

Snake CNY Treat Box

Everyone loves a good themed treat!

¥7.11

What To Do

Without a doubt, the most popular game during Spring Festival is Mahjong. The game is usually played in groups of 4, and involves quite complex strategic and mathematic abilities. It's astounding to see Chinese people of all ages and generations play it quickly and effortlessly with a unique sleight of hand. Not a Mahjong expert? You could just entertain yourself and family members with some DIY and crafts.

Multi Set Of
Board Games

¥32.88

DIY Handmade Snake Decorations

From ¥4.13

Mahjong Portable Board Game

From ¥80.55

Suzhou Garden & Other Landmark Blocks

¥238.04

DIY Snake Bag

¥4.13

DIY Snake Decorations

From ¥17.44