春節

新菜

Pronunciation

English Name

Chinese New Year

Cantonese (Traditional)

春節

Simplified Chinese

春节

Mandarin (Pinyin)

chūn jié

Yale Romanization

chēun jit

Character Breakdown

春 is spring (same as in spring rolls), and 節 is festival , so 春節 is spring festival.

About This Dish

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is a fifteen-day celebration of the Lunar New Year, starting on various dates in January or February and ending with the Lantern Festival.

Variations

京菜

Beijing cuisine

粵菜

Cantonese cuisine

潮州菜

Chaozhou cuisine

閩菜

Fujian cuisine

湘菜

Hunan cuisine

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