The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is Sunday. More than 1.5 billion people around the world celebrate the holiday.
“It’s mainly a symbol of a new beginning, wishing everybody good luck, good health, good prosperity,” said Clarence Chu with the Locke Foundation. The foundation’s purpose is to preserve the history and culture of the town of Locke, the only town in the United States built exclusively by the Chinese Americans for the Chinese.“We have the lanterns, the lion dance, dragon dance, that sort of thing,” said Renne Lu with the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association.
According to the Timothy S. Y. Lam museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University, the holiday has a history of about 3,500 years. The holiday is full of stories and myths. During the Tang, Song, and Qing dynasties, the festival became more of what it looks like today with firecrackers and entertainment.
“There are five major festivals in Chinese culture and the new year celebration is the biggest one,” she said. “Each big festival of the Chinese calendar has special food.” For the new year celebration, she said they eat fish.
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