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Beijing Temple Fair For The Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year in Beijing was very quiet compared to the Chinese New Year in Dalian, where the sound of firecrackers could be heard almost throughout the day and night.
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The Chinese New Year starting on 18th February,2007, will be the start of the Year Of The Pig in the Shixian Lunar Calendar. The people living in China will not be the only ones who will be celebrating the Chinese New Year as Chinese people, wherever they are living, will celebrate the new year, following as many of the ancient customs as they are able to in the respective countries. Children are given small red packets containing money [fung bao], and they often compare, amongst their siblings and friends, the pictures or designs on the front of the packets. It is not the amount of money in the packets that counts, it is the giving of a symbol of good luck that is the important custom.
Children are well aware of this custom of being given gifts [fun bao] of red envelopes containing money for the Chinese New Year, which they look forward to with excitement. On the eve of Chinese New Year steamed rice flour dumplings are usually eaten, either home made, bought off street hawkers, or at restaurant meals. On the day itself there may be a Temple Fair to visit, to meet friends, and enjoy a taste of dishes from neighbouring provinces.
To experience the celebrations of the Chinese New Year for the first time is quite exciting for everything is new, with different customs to observe and traditional foods to enjoy. The Chinese New Year 'cake' was nothing like a UK Christmas cake filled with nuts and fruit and coated with white sugar icing, but probably took just as long to prepare. The Chinese New Year 'cake', the tikoy, could well be described as a 'dumpling', taking many hours to cook in boiling water. A savoury filling is wrapped in a thick layer of sticky [glutinous] rice, with an outer wrapping of banana leaves, tied up with raffia and looking like a parcel about as big as two hands clasped together. The savoury filling could be of a mixture of cooked pork and yellow beans [delicious!] but this seems to be different in different areas; some fillings include peanuts. The cooked 'dumplings' are given as gifts when visiting parents or other senior members of the family, on New Year's day.
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, 'Jiaozi', is one of the traditional foods eaten. The edges of a palm-size piece of thin pastry are folded together over a savoury filling, and then steamed; when ready, they are usually eaten with soy sauce. These are not made in twos or threes, but in large numbers, particularly if a family have gathered together for the traditional meal. The serving of Jiaozi dumplings is not confined to the Chinese New Year celebrations, as they are popular throughout the year. On one visit to friends in Beijing we joined in to help with the making of the Jiaozi, although not very efficiently, and our production levels were about 30% of the 'experts', but still we thought they tasted wonderful! On another visit to Guilin, friends served steamed Jiaozi at lunchtime, and then for dinner in the evening some of the Jiaozi not eaten at lunchtime, was served as fried jiaozi...... soft and tasty filling in a crispy pastry!
Chinese New Year celebrated by Chinese people in Beijing. "Bringer Of Prosperity" for the Chinese New Year in lobby of China hotel. Traditional savory dumplings on eve of Chinese New Year. Chinese children receive Fun Bao at Chinese New Year. No fireworks for Chinese New Year in Beijing. Chinese New Year aka Spring Festival.
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Pictures of Chinese Temple Fair to celebrate Chinese New Year in Beijing. Cooks prepare Chinese New Year snacks at stalls of Temple Fair. Chinese families enjoy Chinese New Year customs at Temple Fair. Chinese New Year of the Rabbit celebrated near Beijing Hotel. Street hawker sells savory dumplings on morning of Chinese New Year. Chinese stallholders with numbered badges at Chinese New Year.
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Classical Chinese instruments played at Chinese New Year celebrations. Chinese New Year decorations of red lanterns and bunting in Grand View Gardens. Chinese Lion dancers perform during Chinese New Year fair. Picture of Chinese children in rabbit costumes for Chinese New Year events. Chinese bridge festooned with red lanterns for Chinese New Year. Beifan pictures of Chinese New Year.
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Chinese snacks for Chinese New Year celebrations for the Year Of The Rabbit. Picture of Chinese man making sugar lollipops in China gardens. Picture of Dragon Kettle on Chinese New Year stall in Chinese garden. Cooking Chinese food for Chinese New Year celebration at Temple Fair. Hot and spicey Chinese food sold in Beijing.
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The Dalian Temple Fair in bright sunlight, held for the Chinese New Year near the Exhibition Center, was very colorful, very crowded and very noisy. It was an almost ideal situation for the Chinese People to enjoy the celebrations of the Spring Festival, at the start of the "Year Of The Rabbit".
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" " This year's Lunar New Year is on February seventeenth. It is the year of the pig. The Chinese New Year dates are determined by the lunisolar Chinese calendar, which is also used in countries that have adopted or have been influenced by Han culture, notably the Koreans, the Japanese, the Filipinos, the Tibetans, the Thai, the Vietnamese and the pagan Bulgars.
Chinese New Year starts on the first day of the new year containing a new moon (some sources include New Year's Eve) and ends on the Lantern Festival fourteen days later. This occurs around the time of the full moon as each lunation is about 29.53 days in duration. In the Gregorian calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, on a date between January 22 and February 20. This means that the holiday usually falls on the second (very rarely third) new moon after the winter solstice. In traditional Chinese Culture, Lichun is a solar term marking the start of spring, which usually falls on either February 4 or 5..... " "Src: Wikipedia
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