(CNN Español) –– The New China Year officially began this February 12th and with it the biggest and most important celebration of this calendar. A festival that lasts for 15 days and is the equivalent of combining Acción de Gracias, Navidad and Año Nuevo. In 2021 we will say goodbye to the year of the rata and we will receive the year of the buey.
Without embarrassment, this is the second year of New China that lies down the gloom of the coronavirus. This year is the largest migration of the world during the break. The Chinese governing body avoids no-holds-barred journeys during the festival to prevent a new covid-19 bread. And it means that millions of people are starting to travel to their peoples or cities to celebrate the New China Year.
For many Chinese who pay for their original origins by looking for labor opportunities in the big cities, this is the only opportunity to see their families this year. The fathers who should be married to the elders in order to be able to work can bring them to another 12 months without them. To discuss the persons traveling, the National Health Commission of China imposes new measures requiring persons regressing in rural areas to have a negative test of covid-19 tomada within the 7 previous days and only 14 days in « domiciliaria observation »a su llegada.
But, what about the pandemic, what exactly is the New China Year? Here we will explain everything that you have to say about this celebration that extends to many parts of Asia.
What is the New Chinese Year?
In reality, this is not his official name: af China, the festivities are known as the Festival de Primavera or Año Nuevo Lunar. Precisely, starting with the second month after the winter solstice, a fech that can be from the final finals of February to mid-February in the Gregorian calendar. In this 2022 it is the 12th of February when the buey year begins.
Tampoco celebrates a solo day. The celebrations of Año Nuevo Chino empiezan in the first day of my first month in the Chinese calendar and extend for 15 days, when reading the luna llena. It’s a time when families usually reunite and travel long distances to be able to go home to see their loved ones. A tradition that coronavirus has been used for two consecutive years. In the case of many, it is the only opportunity of the year that tienen to regress to its hogares and llevar bolsas de regalos.
Last year, Beijing’s main train station was located on the front of the New China River, it was announced that the authorities had not announced that the coronavirus was transmitted from person to person. It is also believed that Wuhan, the initial epicenter of the brewery, has been extending its extension dose. Two days before the New Lunar New Year, this city had a total confinement. Without embarrassment, millions of people in Beijing have traveled to their origins before the commencement of the festival. That accelerates the spread of the virus.
How is it celebrated?
Each of the 15 days that composes the celebration has its own traditions. In the New Year’s New China River, for example, families meet to celebrate together. It is also the cost of quarantine at home to receive the good fortune to visit the sisters. There was also a dinner party in a red color, called “hong bao” for children and adults without couples. In the last years, the shelf has migrated digitally.
The tradition of launching artificial fugues comes from the costume of bending tall bamboo to go to the evil spirits, such as the dragon with the dragon, the lion “Nian”, which is the end of the lunar sale in the New Year to attack people . Pero his oidos his su debilidad, as if in time antigos the people take fuego to bamboo numbers for asustarlo. At that time it was derived from artificial joints.
And the New Lunar New Year ends with the Festival of the Lanterns, celebrating nights with displays and exhibitions of decorated lanterns. The main event of this jornada is the Danza del Dragón: hermosos dragones hechos de papel, seda y bambú son sostenidos subre las cabezas y parece que bailaran durante des parade.
Sondeverbod, probability that large part of the traditions are realized in virtual ways –– including being suspended–– while the continuous coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, some tourist sites offer free entry for those who are obliged to attend the festivities of their families. Also, companies are launching herringbone for the people related to a “new moon in the cloud”, and proportion of everything, from virtual markets to herringbone conferences for online reunion prices.
Where is the year of the buey?
It is possible that only about the 12-year-old Chinese zodiac calendar, represented by 12 different animals. But, in reality, it is much more complicated. One year old only is classified by its zodiac animal. It also has a complex sexagenic cycle: a combination of one of the 10 celestial bodies and one of the 12 terrestrial frames.
February 12 is the year of the year xin chou, following the sexagenario cycle. “Xin” represents the tall hemelse for the metal element, while “chou” is the symbol of the Buey’s terrestrial frame, which is found in the Metal Buey Year, to be exact. Thierry Chow, a feng shui master, explained to Maggie Hiufu Wong, of CNN, that this year the comic will be “a simple force in the element of metal”. “The metallic element represents something brilliant, from joy to the agony of a woman.” For this reason, we can see a mayor emphasizing the metal-related industries in 2021. The buey, in Chinese culture, is a zodiacal signifier. For the most part, it means moving. For that, with certainty, the world will be less static that it has passed and will move to the second middle of the year ».
This calendar depicts an important paper in the vital decision-making process for many people during the next year, as if they had to start a business.
What are the characteristics of the New China Year?
The first is not the sacrum. For what reason? See here that boredom hurts and prosperity. We also spend time with your family, especially your brothers and sisters in your couple, during the second day, when you consider the principle of the year.
The third day, by contrast, is better not to visit nadie. It is a day of discussion, according to tradition. For the seventh day of the feast.
And red is the color that can never fail: it is associated with security and prosperity, but it is used with finesse of protection. (The “Nian” monster also used the red color).
Is the largest new migration in the New China River?
Yes, before the covid-19 pusera paus the great majority of the journeys in the whole world, the New China Year is considered the mayor’s human migration of the planet. In 2020, there will be 3,000 million travel journeys during “chunyun”, the temporary competition of 40 days in China, which is held every week before the New Lunar New Year. The chinos have what it takes to see their loved ones.
Why are Chinese animals identified with animals?
The Chinese legend states that the Buddha summoned all the animals in order to reunite with him during the New Year’s Day and numbered the years with the 12 animals that would accompany him. The way that animals in the Chinese calendar are the dog, the dog, the rat, the boy, the tiger, the dog, the dragon, the serpent, the horse, the owl, the mono and the gallon. It is also a tradition that the people killed in each animal have some knowledge of the personality of this animal.
With information from Nectar Gan, Lily Lee, Maggie Hiufu Wong and David Culver, all of CNN.