21 Things You Didn’t Know About Chinese New Year:
1. Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival
2. There's no set date for Chinese New Year
3. It is a day for praying to gods
4. and fighting off monsters
5. The most fireworks are set off in the world that night
6. (but sometimes it’s illegal)
7. It is the longest Chinese holiday
8. The Spring Festival causes the largest human migration in the world
9. Singles hire fake boy/girlfriends to take home
10. No showering, sweeping or throwing out garbage allowed!
11. Children receive lucky money in red envelopes
12. You eat dumplings for every meal, every day
13. Chinese New Year desserts have special meanings
14. There's wine specifically for the Spring Festival
15. The Chinese decorate everything red for Chinese New Year
16. Every year has a zodiac animal
17. Your zodiac year is bad luck
18. You grow 1 year older on the Spring Festival
19. The New Year greeting in Chinese is “xin nian kuai le”
20. Chinese New Year ends with the Lantern Festival
21. Chinese New Year is celebrated all around the world
