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Chinese New Year 
 Today, it is much more common in China to count age starting at zero and add years at birthdays, like in English-speaking countries.)
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 The Chinese used to keep time using 2 different lists of characters, known in English as the 10Heavenly Stems and the 12Earthly Branches.
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 The stems were the 10 days of the week under the Shang dynasty, each with its own sun and a special gift to different dead family members of the king.
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 Each is said to be yin (dark or female) or yang (bright or male), so that when they are put together they make a list of 60 pairs. (
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 Later, each of the stems was also said to match one of the 5 Chinese elements—wood, fire, dirt, metal, or water—and each of the branches was said to be a different animal: Rat, Ox & Cow, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster & Chicken, Dog, and Pig.
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 The Han Chinese list begins with the Year of the "Wood Rat"; the Tibetan list is much the same but begins with the Year of the "Fire Rabbit".
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 Today, Chinese people don't use these lists to count hours, days, or years but many still pay attention to the animal of the year when someone was born.
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 Just like with the European zodiac, some people think the year's animal can change how someone thinks and acts.
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 Newspapers pay writers to give them ideas for how lucky different animals will be during the coming week.
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 Many parents even time their children's birth within a year or two to give them the best animal sign: a Chinese primary school might have full classrooms of "golden Dragon" students but noticeably fewer "dirt Rats".
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 For those who do believe such things, it is important to notice that the traditional Chinese calendar's year starts at a different time from the usual year.
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 People may say that 2017 is the "Year of the Rooster and Chicken" but the people born in January or early February 2018 will still be "Roosters" and "Chickens" and those born in the first few weeks of 2017 were still "Monkeys".
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 Chinese tradition said that the Chinese calendar began during the 60th year of the reign of the Yellow Emperor in 2637, with New Year celebrations beginning in that year.
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 Parts of the old ways of counting time given above are at least as early as 1250, during the Shang times.
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 From eastern China, the calendar and its new year spread to nearby places like Vietnam (111), Korea (before 270), Japan (604), and Tibet (around 641).
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 It also followed the overseas Chinese to their new homes in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other places.
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 The Shang kings (16th–11th centuries) gave special gifts to their gods and dead family members during the winter of each year.
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 Under the Zhou, people were having harvest festivals like today's Mid-Autumn Festival by about 1000.
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 Over time, common people started to give gifts to their gods and their dead family members, just like the king.
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 They moved to before the planting of the seeds and became wishes and celebration of good luck in the next year.
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 By the early Han, people were counting their birthdays from People's Day on the 7th day of the New Year.
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 The order of animals' birthdays was said to be Roosters and Chickens on the New Year, Dogs on the next day, Pigs on the day after that, Goats on the 4th, Oxen and Cows on the 5th, Horses on the 6th, and then people.
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 About the same time, people started burning bamboo to make loud noises to welcome the New Year and scare away bad things.
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 People started carefully cleaning their homes, having large family dinners, and staying up late on the day before Chinese New Year by the end of the Three Kingdoms (3rd century).
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 Some Taoist magicians may have made gunpowder as early as the Han or Jin, but they certainly had it by the 9th century at the end of the Tang.
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 Over the next few centuries, fireworks and firecrackers replaced burning bamboo as a way to chase away anything bad and to welcome in the New Year.
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 People thought that Chinese dragons like Yinglong and Shenlong were kinds of gods who had power over where the water in rivers and canals went and when the water in clouds would fall as rain.
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 Because this was very important for farming, dragon dances could happen all through the year when rain was needed.
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 Different parts of today's dragon dances began at different times, with some at least as old as the Song (about 1150) and others very new, like using special paint that glows under black light.
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 China has not had its own lions since the spread of people out of Africa into the rest of the world.
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 The earliest lions in Chinese books were gifts to the Han emperor from Parthia and other people who lived along the Silk Road connecting Chinese and Roman businesses.
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 There was lion dancing under the Tang and in Japan by the 8th century, but people still thought of it as a foreign dance used by Buddhists.
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 As part of other changes, the Meiji Emperor of Japan ordered in 1873 that the new year celebrations of his country would be held on January1.
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 Today, even most of the traditional Japanese celebrations now occur on that day, not at the same time as Chinese New Year.
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 In 1928, the Nationalist Party of China tried to change the Chinese celebrations to January1, too, but this completely failed as the Chinese people protested or ignored the new laws and continued as usual.
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 They failed and Suharto said they were working for Indonesia's Communists, who were working with Mao Zedong's Communist China.
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 In 1967, Suharto helped make laws against using Chinese language or culture, including any celebration of Chinese New Year.
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 In 1967, as part of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, the PRC's government did not celebrate or allow special time off work for the traditional new year.
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 The State Council said that the people of China should "change customs" and have a "revolutionized and fighting Spring Festival".
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 In particular, the government helped with dragon and lion dancing, thinking that it was part of the special culture of Chinese people.
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 Since the year 2000, Chinese New Year has been one of the PRC's Golden Weeks: there are three days of paid time away from work during the first few days and two weekends around it are moved to make a 7-day-long holiday.
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 In 2015, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah set out tough new laws about the celebration of Chinese New Year in Brunei.
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 This followed earlier laws like it about Christmas and is part of introducing traditional Islamic law to the country.
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 People in China usually try to be together with their family for at least the first few days of the holiday.
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 Because of the large number of Chinese people and the many people who work away from their hometowns, all this "spring traveling" (chunyun) is the biggest movement of people in the world every year.
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 In former times, sacrifices were made to the gods and dead family members in the days before the holiday.
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 A "reunion dinner" happens in the evening of the last day of the traditional year ("New Year's Eve").
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 Older and married people give younger ones cash in red envelopes known as hongbao in Mandarin Chinese or laisee in Cantonese.
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 Lately, its ads have also become some of the world's most expensive, although they are still behind those during the US Super Bowl.
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 Children are told that these remember a monster called "Nian" ("Year") who was scared away by a town's loud noises and bright lights on a Chinese New Year long in the past.
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 During the first few days of the new year, many people visit the homes of their grandparents, parents, and other relatives, as well as their closest friends.
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 People feed the lions green plants and hongbao, and the lions keep the money and spit out the plants.
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 A 100,000 people sometimes come to the big race on the 3rd day of the New Year, which has a lion dance and other shows.
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 In the past, this was one of the few days of the year when the women of families with lots of money could go outside their homes.
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 This still causes the festival to make people think of young adults meeting their future husband or wife.
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 The most important special event is the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival, where fireworks are shot straight into the people watching the show.
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 Today, people wear special hard hats (helmets) and thick clothes to protect them from the fire and fireworks.
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 Another special event is the "Bombing of Master Handan" in Taitung, where people throw firecrackers straight at the members of a parade who are wearing only red underwear and towels.
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 Taiwan's Hakka people have a tradition like this, where firecrackers are thrown at dragon dancers as they parade through towns.
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 Taipei's City Lantern Festival also goes on for most of the holiday, not just during the 1-day Lantern Festival at the end.
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 People do not get money without working, but anyone who does have to work on the "special non-working day" gets 130% of the usual pay.
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 Binondo—sometimes considered the world's oldest Chinatown—sees a lot of traditional celebrations, such as lion and dragon dances.
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 In 2001, Davao City stopped letting people use fireworks because its people were hurting themselves too much.
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 Their leader Rodrigo Duterte became president of the country and said that he wanted to stop fireworks everywhere.
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 Chinese people have lived there since at least the 15th century, when Zheng He's ships visited its islands for the Yongle Emperor of the Ming, and many more came when the Netherlands held the islands as a colony.
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 Some people had tried to change the government in 1965 and Suharto said Indonesian Communists and their friends in the PRC had done it.
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 Things changed after the fall of Suharto in 1998, and Indonesia made Chinese New Year a national holiday for everyone in 2003.
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 Dragon and lion dances are common at shopping centers, which sometimes have special sales to let Chinese people buy new (often red) clothes to wear for the holiday.
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 People cannot use fireworks in most of Indonesia, but some cities like Jakarta let people use firecrackers.
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 People also try not to lend any money during the holiday, because they think it will make them have to keep lending money for the whole year.
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 Doors and windows are opened on the day before the New Year to "let the old year out", and people wake up early the next morning so they don't stay lazy the whole year.
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 The red envelopes of money (Hokkien:âng-pau) are given on the morning of New Year's Day, not at dinner on the night before it.
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 It is also still common to leave some food at the table for dead family members and to give them gifts as the New Year begins.
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 White rice is eaten but fresh white tofu is not, because in Chinese culture its color makes some people think of death and bad luck.
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 Most of Malaysia gets two days off work for Chinese New Year: the New Year itself and the day after it.
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 The largest celebrations happen around Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur, at the Kek Lok Si Temple in George Town, in Ipoh, and on Jonker Street in Malacca.
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 Some people still follow the tradition that the second day is used for married women to visit their parents, after visiting her husband's family on Chinese New Year's Day.
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 Most Chinese Malaysians take the entire week off of work, despite the shorter length of the national holiday.
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 Traditional Chinese use the 3rd day of the New Year to visit the resting places of family members who died in the last 3 years; people without a death in their family stay home.
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 An unusual tradition in Malaysia is the idea of "open house" dinners, especially on the 2nd and 3rd night of the holiday.
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 Guests, friends, and even strangers from different races and religions can be let in to enjoy large dinners together.
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 In addition to fireworks at the beginning of the New Year, many people light them on the 9th day of the holiday to celebrate the birthday of the Jade Emperor, the boss of the Chinese gods.
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 The day was used for a special Hokkien New Year, the story going that, one time in the past, the Hokkien people had to hide from robbers for 8 days in a sugarcane field.
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 Teochew-style Yusheng, a fish-and-noodle dish, is extra common in Malaysia, where it is called "yeesang" or "prosperity toss".
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 A restaurant in Seremban started getting people to eat it by throwing it high in the air for good luck in the 1940s, and people had so much fun that they have done it ever since.
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 Properly, it should have 7 parts and be eaten on the 7th day of the holiday, but people now eat it in different ways, too.
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 A special tradition is for women with no boyfriend or husband to throw an orange into the sea to find a man.
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 Some now write their telephone numbers on the oranges they throw, and men will use boats to go out and get the fruit.
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 Many people in Malaysia who believe in Islam and Hinduism have also started giving red envelopes full of money—which Malaysians call "ang pow" from its Hokkien name âng-pau—during their own holidays, like Eid ("Syawal") and Divali ("Deepavali").
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 Worried that people would find the next celebration less fun, they began the Chingay Parade the next year in 1973.
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 The parade is now the biggest in Asia, with more than 10,000 people in it and floats that showing every animal of the circle of Chinese years and the money god Cai Shen.
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 There are still government firework shows, and the people of Singapore now make noise during the holiday by hitting bamboo sticks together.
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 The Chinese Festival of Arts starts on the 5th day and runs for the rest of the holiday until the Lantern Festival.
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 The National Gallery, Stamp Museum, and Asian Civilizations Museum let people in for free on some of the days of the holiday.
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 For more than 10 years, Singapore has held a big lion dancing contest with teams coming from other countries across Southeast Asia.
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 During the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the New Year, there is the River Hongbao show on the Marina Bay Floating Platform and along the waterfront.
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 Chinese New Year, the day before it, the day after it, and the Lantern Festival are national holidays in Brunei.
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 The country has had a large number of Chinese people since the 1930s and 40s, and the sultan sometimes comes to their New Year celebrations.
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 Since 2015, however, Brunei has set out tough Islamic laws that try to stop Muslims from joining or even seeing the Chinese celebrations.
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 Lion dances are allowed only at the last Chinese temple in Brunei, at Chinese schools, and at the homes of the Chinese.
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 People cannot use fireworks or firecrackers, and dances must stop during the hours of Islamic prayers.
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 The time in Beijing is 1 hour different from the time in the Korean capital cities of Pyongyang and Seoul.
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 About one time every 24 years, this makes the Korean New Year start on the day after the Chinese New Year.
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 The Korean holiday is very close to the Chinese one, with families gathering, children being very nice to their parents and grandparents, and older people giving gifts of money to the young.
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 In 1967, North Vietnam changed its time so that its capital Hanoi is now 1 hour different from Beijing.
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 Vietnamese people also add a 13th month to their calendar at a different time from the Chinese, who always try to put the 1st day of winter in their 11th month.
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 Like in Korea, the Vietnamese New Year is mostly the same as China's, with families gathering, children saying nice things to their parents and grandparents, and older people giving gifts of money to the young.
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 Some of the differences come from changes in China: Tet sees more people do nice things for their dead family members.
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 In China, most of the traditions like that were moved to Tomb Sweeping Day at the  beginning of April.
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 There is no national holiday with time off work, but different events go on for the full traditional 2 weeks up to the Lantern Festival.
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 In the United Kingdom, the celebration in London's Chinatown and Trafalgar Square drew 500,000 people in 2015.
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 The holiday is also so important to China that many world leaders will take time to send their good wishes to China and the Chinese people.
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 Most traditional customs have to do with getting more good luck for the new year and staying away from anything unhappy.
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 People hang up decorations, especially pairs of Chinese poems (couplets) on either side of their doors.
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 It is very common for big decorations to look like the animal for the new year, so that 2017 had Rooster and Chicken pictures and statues and 2018 will have Dogs.
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 People used to welcome the New Year with anything that made loud noises, including drums, cymbals, or even woks and pots.
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 Fireworks and firecrackers became more and more common everywhere, but lately many places have stopped letting most people use them because of the danger of people hurting themselves, of fire, and of dirt in the air that can make people sick.
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 There are still big firework shows in most big cities with many Chinese people, but the city government will do everything and other people just watch.
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 People wear more red than usual, which makes them think of happy times like weddings, and wear less black and white, which makes some think of sad times like funerals.
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 Red underwear is very common and is most commonly worn during New Years which have the same animal as the wearer's birth year (so, at ages 12, 24, 36, and so on).
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 In Malaysia, it has even become common to give people such red underwear as gifts and for non-Chinese to wear all-red clothes during the season of the Chinese New Year.
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 There are some common things people say to wish good luck to each other, the most important being gōngxǐ fācái ("congratulations that you are now rich").
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 Crying babies are also thought to be bad luck, and family members will try to keep children happy during visits.
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 People still do their "spring cleaning" before the holiday but, in old China, they didn't sweep or wash clothes on New Year's Day itself.
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 For the same reason, some people did not wash their hair and were very careful not to break any tools.
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 The 5th or 6th day after New Year, when they cleaned and threw away or burned all the trash, was a day for "sending off" the God of Being Poor, one of the sons of Zhuanxu.
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 In the same way, people near Beijing thought that it was unlucky to cook or steam food for the first 5 days of the New Year.
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 They would cook all of their next week of food 2 days before it, so it was ready for the reunion meal.
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 It is easy to buy ready-made skins at supermarkets, keep their homemade skins fresh in fridges, or just buy all their dumplings from nearby shops and there is nothing special about the 28th day.
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 On People's Day, the 7th day of the holiday, people used to wear special headbands and thought good weather meant good luck for everyone in the coming year.
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 People used to run to be the first to set off fireworks and firecrackers at the beginning of the New Year at midnight, wherever they were.
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 Taoist traditions that are less common now are giving gifts to the home's kitchen god on the 23rd or 24th day of the 12th month of the old calendar.
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 During the time he was "away", people used to feel they could get away from some hard rules about family life without anything bad happening.
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 In the past, love matches would marry during those days with less rules and expense than a full wedding.
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 Today, the days after the Chinese New Year are a common time for weddings but this is because everyone has time off work and not because of any ideas about luck or worry about the gods.
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 In the same way, people used to give animals to Cai Shen, the god of money, on the 2nd or 5th day of the holiday.
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 People used to take a break from visits on "Red Dog Day" (Chìgǒu Rì), the 3rd day of the holiday, when an angry god was said to bring bad luck to anyone walking around outside.
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 The reunion dinners on the day before Chinese New Year are often the largest and most expensive of the year.
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 Some families use special and expensive foods to gain face; others use meaningful foods to bring luck.
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 Egg rolls and spring rolls like lumpia can also be made to look like golden bars, and oranges and tangerines are thought to look like gold coins.
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 Some dishes are eaten because their Chinese names sound like lucky words, such as "fish" and "well-off".
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 In Cantonese, "vegetable" sounds the same as "having money" (choy) and "leek" sounds the same as "counting-and-planning" (suan).
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 Because of this Cantonese people in China and in other countries try to have some during the New Year holidays.
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 Niangao, called "tikoy" in the Philippines, is a kind of cake made from fried sticky rice and sugar.
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 In Chinese, its name sounds like nián gāo ("the year gets better") or niánnián gāoshēng ("getting better year after year").
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 Some people also think its stickiness is like a glue and use it as a wish for holding their family together.
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 They also have some special flavors in addition to vanilla and chocolate like pandan, a tree with good-smelling leaves.
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 Because most Chinese people in the Philippines speak Hokkien and not Mandarin Chinese, they also like to eat pineapples.
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 Some Chinese also put out "Trays of Togetherness", dishes with eight different parts and eight different kinds of snack foods.
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 Some common things to put in these trays are kumquats, longans, pieces of coconut meat, peanuts, candies, and melon and lotus seeds.
Suite (music) 
 In music, a suite (pronounce "sweet") is a collection of short musical pieces which can be played one after another.
Suite (music) 
 Handel wrote two very famous collections of dance movements for orchestra: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.
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 He also wrote 22 suites for keyboard, and Bach wrote "French Suites", "English Suites" and "Partitas" for keyboard as well as partitas for unaccompanied violin and suites for unaccompanied cello.