After the big reunion meal, traditional families stay up well beyond midnight to bring in the New Year by either watching or launching fireworks ... explains why Chinese hang red decorations ...

FANG COUNTY, Hubei – The festive spirit was in the air in this mountainous county in China’s central region as residents took turns to set off firecrackers and fireworks to usher in the Year ...

It’s nearly Chinese New Year and a traditional part of the celebrations is to light fireworks to mark the end of the old and the start of the new. Organised fireworks displays can be fun events ...

The Chinese New Year is celebrated with family dinners, fireworks, red envelope gifts (hóngbāo in Chinese, bao lì xì in Vietnamese), and parades. This year honours the Snake, which represents ...

My relative give me red envelopes ... special time for Chinese people as it is a celebration of the last year and a time for new beginnings. At New Year we celebrate with fireworks.

not only is the day known as the Lantern Festival or Chinese Valentine’s Day, it is also the day to, finally, open the red packets you received over the Lunar New Year – if you have not done ...

Things got even louder with the invention of gunpowder by Chinese alchemists - also by accident. This mixture was packed into bamboo and later paper tubes and… BANG! the first fireworks lit up ...