Do Hong Kong people celebrate Chinese New Year?

Hong Kong people do celebrate Chinese New Year.

Hong Kong people will prepare potted annual flowers and fresh cut flowers early for Chinese New Year in order to celebrate the festival. Flowers mean a lot to Hong Kong people. They can be used for prosperity and good luck, and it is hoped that placing these flowers at home will bring good luck to the whole family.

On New Year's Eve, Hong Kong people usually visit the flower market as a family after dinner to celebrate the festival together.

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In recent years, few Hong Kong people have traditionally put up Chinese New Year couplets and New Year paintings at home during the Lunar New Year, instead, they put up waving spring scrolls such as "Prosperity in Business" and "Peaceful Entry and Exit" in some stores or at home. "Instead, the traditional Chinese New Year scrolls and paintings are put up in some shops or homes. In spite of this, the original intention of sticking the spring and sticking the spring couplets and New Year's paintings, take its auspicious meaning, hope that the coming year everything goes well, peace and security.

In addition, lion dances and dragon lanterns are also seen in some villages and walled villages in the New Territories, and it is difficult to see large-scale lion and dragon lantern dances on the streets of the city in the New Year. As for the discharge of firecrackers, firecrackers, etc. in Hong Kong is prohibited, but since 1982 every year on the second day of the Lunar New Year night, in the Victoria Harbour will hold a grand fireworks display, which has become this decade to welcome the spring of a program.

Hong Kong is known as the "Gourmet Paradise", and there are many Chinese New Year customs related to food, and most families will have a "Lunar New Year dinner" during the Lunar New Year period, which is usually a feast at home, where the whole family gathers on New Year's Eve to enjoy the The new year's dinner will be held at the same time as the new year's dinner.

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