Hong Kong Chinese Lunar New Year's Day Celebrations 2018

Chinese Lunar New Year’s Day

The Chinese Lunar New Year is on the first day of a secular, sacred, or other guise whose months are coordinated by the cycles of the moon and is also popularly known as the Spring Festival.The first day of the New Year falls on the new moon between 16 February and 19 February in 2018 the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year is on Friday, 16 February, initiating another year of the Rooster.

Although the festival is officially for two days that falls on  17 February 2018, you can look forward to a fortnight long celebration if you are in Hong Kong with the festivities drawing to a close with the spectacular lantern festival on the first full moon of the year. Red and gold are the dominant colors that paint the city along with drum beats, gongs and firecrackers adding to the spectacle. You can also see dancing lions and dragons parading their way down the streets with crows cheering them on.

This is the time of the year when Chinese citizens all across the world including Hong Kong are in a celebratory mood and gear up for this annual event way ahead. People start preparing for this mega festival as soon as the Christmas decorations are pulled down making way for the Chinese good luck charms. Since red and gold are considered auspicious by the Chinese, you can see stores and streets alike decorated with them. Sprays of flowers and mandarin trees can be spotted at every nook and corner that adds to the festive atmosphere. The local temples are also beautifully adorned for this festival as a preparation to welcome visitors who come in to pray to the local deities for good luck with offerings of food and incense. 

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