The world is gearing up to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the most significant event on the Chinese calendar. Falling on Wednesday, January 29, this year marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake, ...

Festival ushers in the Year of the Snake, China is flooded with auspicious representations of the hissing, scaly reptile, from pythons coiling around gold ingots to serpents with chubby faces and ...

Have you tried bathing in coriander broth? How about throwing mandarins to flowing body of water? These are a few of Asia's unique Lunar New Year traditions.

The celebrations will then officially kick off with a New Year’s Eve family dinner, with fish and dumplings being served to encourage prosperity. Shou Sui, which translates as “after the New ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

This is called “sweeping of the grounds,” according to Britannica. Chinese New Year traditions center on ushering out the old year and bringing luck and prosperity into the new one.

This tradition involves visiting the graves of the ancestors and providing an extra space at the dinner table on New Year's Eve. Family gatherings are one of the highlights of the Lunar New Year. This ...

This tradition before Chinese New Year doesn't translate into the usual housecleaning agenda, as it involves scrubbing the bathroom, moving furniture to get to hard-to-reach walls and floors, and ...