Haloooo..next I would like to give you information about Chinnese New Year!! hihi.. Happy Chinnese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Chai!!
Chinese New Year
Chinese New
Year is an
important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the Chinese
calendar. In China,
it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the
modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally run from
Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar,
to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first
month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. It falls
between January 21 and February 20. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often
referred to as the "Lunar New Year".
Chinese New
Year is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and
traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well
as ancestors.[2]
Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant
Chinese populations, including Mainland
China, Hong
Kong,[3] Macau, Taiwan, Singapore,[4] Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius,[5] Philippines,[6][7]
and also in Chinatowns
elsewhere. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and
has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic
neighbours.
Within China,
regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese New
Year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is an
occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion
dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the
house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming
luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good
fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and
"longevity." Other activities include lighting firecrackers and
giving money in red paper envelopes.
Although the
Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years,
outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of the 3rd
millennium BC Yellow Emperor. But at least three different years
numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year beginning AD 2015
the "Chinese Year" 4713, 4712, or 4652.[8]
Names in Chinese
Traditionally, the festivities
surrounding Chinese New Year were known as the Nian festival (traditional Chinese: 年節; simplified Chinese: 年节; pinyin: Nián Jié),
which may be understood to as "Festival of the Year", or "New
Year Festival". A derivative term, Guo Nian (traditional Chinese: 過年; simplified Chinese: 过年; pinyin: guò Nián; literally: "to pass the
year"), is still commonly used to refer to the act of celebrating the
arrival of the new year. An alternative name for Chinese New Year is "New
Year in the Agricultural Calendar" (traditional Chinese: 農曆新年; simplified Chinese: 农历新年; pinyin: Nónglì Xīnnían), the "Agricultural
Calendar" being one of the more common Chinese
language names for the Chinese
calendar in China.
New Year's Day itself was
traditionally named Yuandan (Chinese: 元旦; pinyin: Yuándàn),
literally "the first sunrise", but in 1913 the recently established Republic
of China government appropriated that name to refer instead to New Year's
Day in the newly adopted Gregorian Calendar, with Chinese New Year
instead being called "Spring Festival" (traditional Chinese: 春節; simplified Chinese: 春节; pinyin: Chūnjié), which
remains the official name for the New Year's Day public holiday in both mainland
China and Taiwan.
Now, Yuandan refers to the first day of one year according to solar calendar[9]
and it is the same day with western New Year's Day in spite of the time
difference. Prior to 1913, "Spring Festival" instead referred to lichun, (February 4
or 5), the first solar term in a Chinese calendar year, which marked the
end of winter and start of spring.
An alternative name for Chinese New
Year's Day means literally "the first day of the (great) year"
(Chinese: (大)年初一; pinyin: (Dà) Nián Chūyī).
The New Year's Day public holiday in Hong Kong
and Macau is named
in Chinese, as literally "First Day of the Year in the Agricultural
Calendar" (traditional Chinese: 農曆年初一; simplified Chinese: 农历年初一; pinyin: Nónglì Nián Chūyī) while the official
English name is "The First Day of Lunar New Year".
Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where
Chinese families gather for their annual reunion
dinner, named as Nian Ye Fan, is known as "Evening of the
Passing" (Chinese: 除夕; pinyin: Chúxī).
The lunisolar Chinese calendar determines the date
of Chinese New Year. The calendar is also used in countries that have been
influenced by, or have relations with, China - such as Korea, Japan and
Vietnam.[10]
In the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year falls on
different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20. In the Chinese
calendar, winter
solstice must occur in the 11th month, which means that Chinese New Year usually
falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice (rarely the third if an intercalary month intervenes). In
traditional Chinese Culture, lichun is a solar term marking the start of spring, which
occurs about February 4 or 5, which is the median date of Chinese New Year's
Day.
The dates for Chinese New Year from
1912 to 2101 (in the Gregorian calendar) are below, along with the year's
presiding animal zodiac
and its Stem-branch. In generally, Chinese New Year follows the Metonic cycle,
and returns to the same date in Gregorian calendar roughly.The names of the Earthly
Branches have no English counterparts and are not the Chinese
translations of the animals. Alongside the 12-year cycle of the animal zodiac
there is a 10-year cycle of heavenly stems. Each of the ten heavenly stems is
associated with one of the five elements of Chinese
astrology, namely: Wood, Fire,
Earth, Metal,
and Water. The elements are rotated every two years
while a yin
and yang association alternates every year. The elements are thus
distinguished: Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, etc. These produce a
combined cycle that repeats every 60 years. For example, the year of the Yang
Fire Rat occurred in 1936 and in 1996, 60 years apart.
Many people inaccurately calculate
their Chinese birth-year by converting it from their Gregorian birth-year. As
the Chinese New Year starts in late January to mid-February, the previous
Chinese year dates through January 1 until that day in the new Gregorian year,
remaining unchanged from the previous Gregorian year. For example, the 1989
year of the Snake began on February 6, 1989. The year 1990 is
generally aligned with the year of the Horse.
However, the 1989 year of the Snake
officially ended on February 8, 1990. This means that anyone born from January
1 to February 7, 1990 was actually born in the year of the Snake
rather than the year of the Horse.
Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of
the two calendars, using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese
New Year dates.[citation needed]
One scheme of continuously numbered Chinese-calendar years
assigns 4709 to the year beginning, 2011, but this is not universally accepted;
the calendar is traditionally cyclical, not continuously numbered.
Thank you for our information, bisa beri saya sedikit makna dari hari raya ini? Gong xi fa cai
ReplyDeleteTerimakasih Sekar, seperti pd Chinnese New Year adalah perayaan Tahun Baru Cina. Dimana sama seperti dgn Tahun Baru pd umumnya, namun hal ini lebih spesifik kepada kepercayaan dan kebudayaan masing-masing. Shio apa tahun 2015 ini? Tahun Baru Imlek 2015 yang jatuh pada hari ini, merupakan pergantian masa menjadi Tahun Kambing. Melampaui persiapan menyambut segala kemeriahan perayaan Imlek tahun ini, proses berbenah diri untuk memasuki tahun baru tak boleh luput. Kemudian bagaimana makna, arti & ramalan Tahun Kambing 2015?
ReplyDeleteSeperti yang diketahui jika salah satu produk kebudayaan tradisional Tiongkok yang kerap menjadi perhatian jelang Chinese New Year adalah Shio. Tiap tahun dalam penanggalan Tiongkok diasosiasikan dengan karakter salah satu dari 12 hewan shio yakni Tikus, Kerbau, Macan, Kelinci, Naga, Ular, Kuda, Kambing, Monyet, Ayam, Anjing, dan Babi.
Pembacaan karakter dari tiap tahun ini salah satunya ditujukan untuk mendapat bahan pertimbangan dari hal-hal yang perlu atau tidak perlu dilakukan pada tahun tersebut. Tahun ini adalah tahun Kambing.
Pengamat Chinnese New Year kita, Suhu Naga mengatakan jika tahun ini adalah Tahun Kambing Gunung. Menurutnya sifat dari tahun Kambing ini adalah feminin. Ia mengatakan bahwa, “Artinya di tahun ini, sisi feminin kuat dalam segala bidang.” Lalu hal-hal apa saja yang positif dari tahun kambing ini dan apa yang perlu dihindari?
Merujuk pada karakter tahun Kambing yang feminin, Suhu Naga menyebut bahwa di tahun ini kepedulian sosial pada yang kurang mampu akan menguat.
“Shio Kambing melambangkan sifat feminin dan penyayang. Banyak orang-orang tak mampu akan terangkat bukan semata-mata karena uang tapi karena berbagai bentuk dukungan dari berbagai pihak agar mereka bisa maju” tambah Suhu Naga.
Mengenai hal-hal yang perlu dihindari, Suhu Naga mengatakan bahwa akan terjadi bencana-bencana yang terkait dengan tanah. Hal ini berkaitan dengan tahun Kambing gunung yang turun.
Selain bencana tanah, akan ada juga bencana air dan udara. Menurut Suhu Naga, saat hujan harus lebih waspada dalam menggunakan transportasi penerbangan dan bila perlu dihindari.
Jd pd umunya makna Chinnese New Year ini sama seperti perayaan Tahun baru pd umumnya. Apakah sudah jelas Sekar?
terima kasih informasinya. apakah anda pernah mnyaksikan secara langsung acaranya ?
ReplyDeleteGood article. Happy Imlek day guys.;)
ReplyDeleteAyu Sekar : Iyaaa, tentu saja pernah. It was amazing :)
ReplyDeleteRia Melati : Xie-Xie Ria, Gong Xi Fa Chai!!! :D
Where do you see? i want to see,
ReplyDeletecould you tell me he means of lunisolar and how about lunar new years ?
ReplyDeleteAyu Sekar : I saw that event in Pecinan Semarang. The famous place of chinnese people or chinnese atributte already there. So, do you want to join with us to attend on that event next year? :)
ReplyDeletedlam perayaan'a apakah menggunakan sesajen ?
ReplyDeleteMario Adi : Thanks for ur questions Mario. "Lunisolar" it's called "Cap Go Meh" in Tionghoa. Celebrated on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. And about "Lunar New Year" (it's called chuxi on Tionghoa) is celebrated on night of Chinnese New Year. :)
ReplyDeleteGek Debby : Terimakasih Gek Debby, sepengetahuan saya menjelang sembahyang Imlek, biasanya sesajen berupa makanan kesukaan leluhur ditata di atas meja berkain merah. Sesajen itu merupakan simbolisme harapan keberuntungan dan kesejahteraan untuk leluhur dan keluarga untuk setahun ke depan. Mereka beragama Katolik, namun tetap menggelar tradisi ini untuk menghormat leluhur mereka yang berasal dari “Sina Mutin Melak orang Cina Putih dari Malaka. :)
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