Lunar New Year Event

## Shop Related

The **Lunar New Year Event** (or *Spring Festival*) is a short-term, unique Event celebrated in Utopia: Origin as well, during the Chinese New Year Event. It originally was available from January 29, 2019 to February 12, 2019. At that time, several new items were added to the game, in particular the Red Packs and some clothing items (see event history.

## Description

With this unique event, celebrated once a year, Summer opens a special New Year Upupup Shop, where various items can be purchased for Credit Coupons.

## Event Rewards

During the Lunar New Year Event in February 11-16, 2021, Summer offers **special rewards for sharing the announcement** of the event that appears on the official Utopia:Origin page.

* **Note**: The tier rewards **will not be cumulated**.

There are several tiers, with the corresponding rewards, as follows:

**Lunar New Year 2021**
Share Event Rewards
 **4** | 2,000 | ♦ Chinese New Year Scroll of Fortune x 1♦ Chinese New Year Lantern x 2♦ Garden Potted Plum Tree  x 1♦ Colorful Fragment x 50♦ Gacha Coin x 50♦ Advance Garden Exp. Card x 1

As well, there are more rewards from the Daily Sign-in and Top Up events.

## A Bit of Knowledge

*Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China. In 2021, Chinese New Year will begin on February 12. Tied to the Chinese lunar calendar, the holiday was traditionally a time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors. It was also a time to bring family together for feasting. With the popular adoption of the Western calendar in 1912, the Chinese joined in celebrating January 1 as New Year’s Day. China, however, continues to celebrate Chinese New Year with the traditional greeting, “Kung hei fat choi.”*

### Lunar New Year

*The ancient Chinese lunar calendar, on which Chinese New Year is based, functioned as a religious, dynastic and social guide. Oracle bones inscribed with astronomical records indicate that the calendar existed as early as 14th century B.C., when the Shang Dynasty was in power.*

*The calendar’s structure wasn’t static: It was reset according to which emperor held power and varied from one region to another.*

*Chinese New Year typically begins with the new moon that occurs between the end of January and the end of February, and it lasts about 15 days, until the full moon arrives with the Festival of Lanterns.*

### Chinese New Year Animals

*The Chinese calendar also included the Chinese zodiac, the cycle of twelve stations or “signs” along the apparent path of the sun through the cosmos.**Each new year was marked by the characteristics of one of the **12 zodiac animals**: the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.*

### Chinese New Year Traditions

*The traditional Chinese New Year was the most important festival on the calendar. Ritual sacrifices of food and paper icons were offered to gods and ancestors. People posted scrolls printed with lucky messages on household gates and set off firecrackers to frighten evil spirits. In fact, many of the rites carried out during this period were meant to bring good luck to the household and long life to the family—particularly to the parents.*

### Chinese New Year Food

*Most important was the feasting: On **New Year’s Eve**, the extended family would join around the table for a meal that included as the last course a **fish** that was symbolic of abundance and therefore not meant to be eaten*.

*In the first five days of the New Year, people ate long noodles to symbolize long life. On the 15th and final day of the New Year, round dumplings shaped like the full moon were shared as a sign of the family unit and of perfection.*

Information source: "Chinese New Year Traditions"