Coming to one Chinatown this period of year is an ideal opportunity of yours to experience one of the most interesting festivals that you may not have seen before, the Chinese New Year.
Acting as a visitor in the Chinatown in Chicago, I’ve talked with an old Chinese man that is selling tofu, having an interview about the ancient celebration of Chinese New Year which is often described in the Eastern happy New Year poems.
The Chinese New Year used to be celebrated for the whole month, but now is often last for about two weeks, and according to some poems about new years, that’s the moment when the Chinese in particular, and almost the Asian in general, share the happiness of gathering together throughout the countries. The Chinese New Year celebration is started at the end of one year in lunar calendar, and may happen someday in January or February. In 2012, the Chinese New Year would begin exactly from 23th of January. Through the change of times and custom in daily life make some unintentional influences on the Chinese New Year celebration, the youth of China in all over the world are still fond of all the customs that their elders have taught them.
Let head back to the motherland of the Chinese, the great China. The celebration of The Chinese New Year started at the 23th December of the old lunar year to the 15th January of the new one. In this period of time, the people have a tendency going to the pagoda to pray for the wealth, happiness and luck to come in the next year. The old man has prayed for all the best that comes to his family this year. I asked him the way to the nearest pagoda, because I myself will go to pray, though I’m not keen on Buddhism.
New Year Poems
Looking back on the months gone by,
As a new year starts & an old one endz,
We contemplate what brought us joy,
And we think of our loved onez & our friendz.
Recalling all the happy times,
Remembering how they enriched our livez,
We reflect upon who really counts,
As the fresh and bright new year arrivez.
And when I ponder those who do,
I immediately think of you.
Thanks for being one of the reasons I will have a Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR'S TO YOU ~ Author Unknown
A new year is beginning to peak through
softly beautiful and different like new falling snow,
each day unique and shaped just for you.
Your life adding something as each day does grow.
My wish for your new year is beauty
and softness with surprises thrown in for delight.
Love for each day bringing happiness to you,
making your life a scene of sparkle and shining sunlight.
I continued asking about more and more amazing thing about the Chinese New Year, and the man talked with me about the sentences. You may encounter somewhere a type of artwork that contains Chinese symbolic written on the red paper by the ancient ink and pen, and that somehow related to the sentences we’re talking about. The old man tried to describe the sentences to me, and finally I thought I got some. They’re a pair of sentence, not similar to poem, which has their meaning related to each others. He gave me an example, “Three rivers” and “Four mountains”. I guess the real is something like that, but much more meaningful.
At the end of the conversation, we talked about the food, the things that often take place in New Year poems for kids. The reunion dinner, where members of the family gather together, is luxurious, he used that word. The sumptuous dinner often has chicken and fish dishes. He also said that in his homeland in China, the fish aren’t completely eaten; some are left to the next day. I don’t know why, maybe the fish itself has some kind of special meaning to the Chinese, or they want to eat fishes that are about to rot, just kidding. He also talked about his favorite food, the Ravioli soup, which is often served at the New Year. He suggested that I’d try one and say goodbye to me. My busy ended up with a bowl of that Ravioli soup, and I return home with a book of Chinese plum, the Chinese symbol of luck.
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