Everything You Need to Know About Chinese New Year This Year

Posted By Allen's Flower Market On Friday, 28 January 2022 Back

Everything You Need to Know About Chinese New Year This Year

Everything You Need to Know About Chinese New Year This Year

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Get Ready to Enter the Year of the Tiger

This year, Chinese New Year will fall on Tuesday, February 1. On that day, we enter the year of the Tiger, the third animal in the sequence of the Chinese Zodiac. We are transitioning out of the year of the Ox and into the Tiger year, and with it, tradition calls for a shift toward freedom, strength, and confidence. Chinese culture predicts that Tiger years are good for hard work, determination, and good fortune. 

Chinese New Year’s traditions include: 

  • Decorating the house, shops, and city streets. Much like the holiday season in Western culture, the Lunar New Year is a time to bring a festive atmosphere and shimmering decoration to the house and surrounding atmosphere. New Year’s decorations are thought to bring luck and ward off evil. 
  • Making offerings to the ancestors. In Chinese culture, deceased family members are still recognized at major celebrations. Offerings that are placed at a family shrine might include food, wine, or joss paper.
  • Enjoy a reunion dinner. Families often go to great lengths to come together to celebrate the new year together through a reunion dinner. Sitting at a round table and eating family-style meals, families enjoy symbolic foods and traditional staples like dumplings, rice cakes, and spring rolls. 
  • Setting off fireworks. Much like midnight on January 1, the Chinese treat their New Year’s celebration as a moment to mark with beautiful fireworks, noisy firecrackers and cheering. Some believe that the more noise they make, the better their year will be.
  • Watching public festivals. Cities throughout China and worldwide celebrate dragon dances and parades on the New Year.
  • Taking a week for cultural festivities. While the New Year will occur on February 1, the week following is full of traditions, from visiting different sides of the family to visiting the graves and tombs of the dead to cleaning out the house. Fifteen days after the New Year, the Chinese celebrate a Lantern Festival, when beautiful paper lanterns are sent into the sky in all shapes and colors. 

Auspicious symbols and tokens of good fortune are central to Chinese New Year’s celebrations. Flowers and decorative fruits are a huge part of these celebrations – and many of the most popular flowers carry deep cultural significance. Orchids are beloved at Chinese New Year. The luxurious elegance of the orchid translates to a meaning of abundance and refinement. At Allen’s Flower Market, we carry a sumptuous variety of orchids, from the minimal Artisan Orchids arrangement featuring a single plume of white petals and beautifully folded foliage to the showstopping Orchid Circle, a lush centerpiece with three orchid varietals. Willow stems are another Chinese New Year favorite. Our Grand Paradise bouquet blends willows with exciting exotic flowers for a true statement of lush, promising beauty. Peonies are a beloved flower in Chinese culture and play into the Lunar New Year as flirtatious charmers that bring good fortune to anyone, especially those looking for love. Our stunning Peony Street arrangement is the perfect gift or accent for a reunion dinner or a romantic surprise. Winter fruits like pomelos and tangerines are often included in grand floral arrangements to symbolize family unity and luck

At Allen’s Flower Market, we are proud to be a family-owned business and have been bringing floral joy to our customers’ cultural celebrations for over 40 years. We offer fast, easy delivery to accommodate your busy life and help you stay focused on your festivities, celebrations, and rituals. Have a look at our impressive variety of flowers, gifts, plants, and floral arrangements online