The Lunar New Year begins today, Jan. 29. It's a complex holiday with much symbolism crammed into days of festivities filled with material abundance, but here's how to make sense of this millennia-old ...

How long are Lunar New Year festivities? What is the Chinese Zodiac? Here's what to know as the Year of the Snake ...

While in America we may toast to the new year with Champagne and eat black-eyed peas for good luck, those who celebrate the Lunar New Year have a host of food traditions that symbolize wealth, health, ...

There is a tradition of Sebaetdon, which is offering paper money in silk bags with traditional designs. The last event of Chinese New Year is the ... Tang Yuan (glutinous rice balls), for family ...

Lucky Chow producer Danielle Chang offers these succulent steamed dumplings at her Lunar New Year ... rice balls stuffed with black sesame seeds in this soothing, rock sugar-sweetened Chinese ...

Chinese New Year festival is a cornerstone of Chinese culture - persevering age-old stories, religious beliefs, historical events, key values, and ethics.

southern Chinese meals rely heavily on rice cakes. Traditionally, people give out red envelopes with money and light fireworks after dinner. The last day of the New Year is known as the Festival ...