{"id":29644,"date":"2018-02-21T00:44:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=29644"},"modified":"2018-02-21T00:44:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:44:04","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Chinese New Year around Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the number of Chinese people in the UK keeps increasing, there are more people celebrate Spring Festival around Cardiff.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Chinese New Year happened last week and a series of colorful events were held to celebrate it all around UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

During this period, people eat lots of delicious food, enjoy fireworks, wear special clothes and hang red lanterns to mark the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s some Chinese traditional customs:<\/p>\n

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When is Spring Festival<\/h4>\n

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is based on the lunar Chinese calendar so it changes each year. This year the Spring Festival is at <\/span>16<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0February.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Chinese New Year, the year of dog comes. The sigh of year was from Chinese zodiac.The zodiac was based on Chinese astrology. It was used as a way to count years, months, days, and hours in the calendar. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese zodiac <\/span>is a classification scheme that assigns an animal<\/span>, <\/span>each year <\/span>represented by the animal and its famous attributes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent years, Chinese New Year is more and more popular in the UK countries, fascinates not only Chinese people currently in Cardiff but also make many locals are looking forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The celebration of the Spring Festival in the UK<\/h4>\n

Recent years, Chinese New Year is more and more popular in UK, fascinates not only Chinese people currently in Cardiff but also make many locals are looking forward.<\/span><\/p>\n

In UK, Spring Festival is also a vital festival and people celebrate it all around the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cardiff<\/h4>\n

A number of traditional Chinese smaller celebration <\/span>activities<\/span> were held in Chinese restaurants in Cardiff during the festival period. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example,using Chinese calligraphy to make festive decorations and handcrafts and setting the fireworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cardiff Luxury Student Apartments Eclipse held a large New Year’s event to celebrate the Chinese New Year, 16 February.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of students came in to attend, not just Chinese students, but also many students from all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the event, Eclipse celebrated New Year with fireworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI used to have the great interest in Chinese culture. Also It\u2019s a good way to know traditions\u201d, said Abby, a student from Spain and studying at Cardiff Metropolitan University, \u201cI\u2019m really grateful to attend this event and I enjoy it very much\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a video of the fireworks in Eclipse:<\/p>\n

Another smaller event held by <\/span>Confucius Institute. The teacher visited Cardiff City Football Club to help the club celebrate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Footballers learned calligraphy and wrote couplets which called \u201cchunlian\u201d, is the traditional custom in China.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lulu from our Confucius Institute visited @CardiffCityFC<\/a> to help the club celebrate #ChineseNewYear<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/UNwITYeni0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cardiff University (@cardiffuni) February 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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London<\/h4>\n
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