Many people will also clean their homes before festivities begin and will often put up red decorations – a color signifying good fortune in Chinese culture. Every year, the Lunar New Year marks ...

An estimated 2 billion people celebrate Lunar New ... the old year and make space for the new one, but they are careful not to clean during the beginning of the New Year so that they do not "sweep out ...

Over the past two weeks of Lunar New Year celebrations, 12-year-old Valerie Shek received more than 100 red packets. The pupil plans to save half of her lai-see money in the bank but does not want ...

To this day, the Lunar New Year celebration is centered around removing bad luck and welcoming all that is good and prosperous. Red is considered an auspicious colour to ring in the new year.

Gifts, food, parades and fireworks - just some of the ways that the Lunar New ... physical, red packets containing money. In the Chinese zodiac, the snake is the sixth of the twelve-year cycle ...