Chinese New Year Vocabulary

春节

• Chinese New Year
• Year end clean
• Sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice flour
• Ancestor

过年

• Chinese New Year
• to set off fireworks
• Sweet dumplings
• Chinese Rice pudding

新年

• Chinese New Year
• The elders, senior members of a family
• Lantern show
• Double Ninth Festival

除夕

• Chinese New Year’s Eve
• Solar calendar
• Lantern
• Double Seventh Festival

年夜饭

• New Year’s Eve dinner
• Chinese New Year
• Flower-shaped lantern
• Dragon boat festival

团圆饭

• Reunion dinner
• Reunion
• To guess lantern riddles
• Dragon boat race

团圆

• Reunion
• Red pocket
• Mid-autumn Festival
• Flower-shaped lantern

大扫除

• Year end clean
• Red couplets
• To admire the moon
• Ghost

春联

• Red couplets
• Pay a New year call
• Moon cake
• Lantern

吃饺子

• Eat dumplings
• Paper-cuts for Window Decoration
• Dragon boat festival
• Lantern show