Upcoming Chinese New Year Hampers

Now the time Giving gifts is a very common thing in life that individuals undertake in order to show their love, affection and care for their family members and even to celebrate their special occasions in life. There are many things which will buzz up in your mind while thinking about gifting someone or family.  Chinese New Year is around the corner, so you should prepare for it before it comes over you. You need to decide the best hampers for you to send to your relatives. We are here to give you some of the unique gift ideas for the upcoming Chinese New Year.

Gift and Hampers are available in a wide range of options; the present hamper entails many small presents rather than one single unit. Impressing your loved ones by giving them a present hamper that will contain everything they like, this has always been a very common thing that till day has not lost its spirit and remnants to be in trend even today. The Chinese New Year hamper is very popular gift hamper that individuals particularly will purchase during the Chinese New Year.

Individuals from all around the planet buy the Chinese New Year hamper for their family members who celebrate this special day every year with love and togetherness while welcoming a new year of their lives. Even other peoples who have Chinese friends they also send it to them at this particular time.

Perfect gift hamper on the New Year occasion one can discover that Chinese New Year hamper ranging from MYR 150 to MYR 250 that is maximum 0 in Malaysia. Finding Best Chinese hamper that contains all the things you really wanted to give and that too in your very budget has now been turned into an easy affair by the numerous online shops selling them and some of them deliver fre of cost all over Malaysia.

Some of the Chinese New Year Gifts includes joy orange basket with bird nest, Chinese tradition Hampers, Chinese tower hampers, Delicious Food hampers and some of them includes bottle of red wine with some flowers as well.

The Chinese New Year hamper packing with yummy cookies and honeyed jujubes could be chosen for all of your loved ones who like such delicacies in life. All Chinese gift hampers are packed properly with some attractive and colorful baskets.

Exclusively Chinese New Year brings you a decent selection of gifts which will surely make their day more memorable. Add the color of affection, happiness, celebration and care in the lives of whom you care by booking present hamper for them. Make your relatives happy and enjoy this festival very much.

Introduction to Chinese New Year

Spring Festival, widely known as Chinese New Year in the west, is the most important traditional festival and a public holiday in China. The Chinese New Year 2012 starts in February 3. It is the year of rabbit. The festival falls on the first day of the first lunar month (usually in late January and early February), and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day.

The festival is celebrated grandly and extensively across the country. Various cultural activities such as Fireworks Dragon Dancing, Lion Dancing and other traditional performances, are arranged in parks and streets in cities and towns.

Every family thoroughly cleans the house, sweeps the floors and washes daily things. House cleaning is believed to drive away ill-fortune and bring good luck in the coming year. Windows and doors are decorated with red paper-cuts and couplets. See New Year decorations.

Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together. A reunion dinner is held on New Year’s Eve, when New Year food including Chinese dumplings and spring rolls is eaten.

From the first day of the New Year to the 15th day, Chinese people go to visit friends and relatives. New year greetings are given to each other, and lucky money is given to children to bring them good luck.

The new year period is the busiest travel time(see Chinese New Year 2012 transportation). If you choose to travel during this period, you need to make full preparations and have your trip arranged as early as possible. See new year travel tips

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Chinese New Year Food

Chinese New Year is one of the most important festival in China. Chinese New Year 2011 will be on February 3rd, 2011. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival in China. To most Chiense people, eating and drinking are the daily activity of New Year celebration. Chinese New Year Foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Chinese New Year foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival.

Chinese Dumplings, Fish, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao are usually seen as delicious and eaten at this time.

1. Fish In Chinese, Fish sounds like “save more”. Chinese People always like save more money at the end of year because they think if they save more, they can make more in the next year.

2. Chinese Dumplings With a long history of more than 1,800 years, dumplings are a traditional food widely popular in China, especially in North China such as in Zhengzhou, Chengde, Dalian, Harbin, etc. Dumplings generally consist of minced meat and finely-chopped vegetables wrapped into a thin and elastic piece of dough skin. Popular fillings are mince pork, diced shrimp, fish, ground chicken, beef, and vegetables. They can be cooked by boiling, steaming, frying or baking. Dumplings are the symbol of Chinese food, and a traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year’s Eve.

Chinese Dumplings look like silver ingots. Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during New Year celebration, more money you can make in the New Year. Almost all Chinese people can make dumplings, first mix the dough, second make the dough into wrappers by a rolling pin, third fill the wrappers with pork, beef, vegetable, fish or anything else can be used as stuffing.

3. Spring Roll Spring rolls are a Cantonese dim sum dish of cylindrical shape. The filling of spring rolls could be vegetables or meat, and the taste could be either sweet or savory. After fillings are wrapped in spring roll wrappers, the next step is frying. Then the spring rolls are given their golden yellow color. It is a dish especially popular in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc. They get their name because they are traditionally eaten during Chinese New Year Celebration.

4. Nian Gao In Chinese, Nian Gao sounds like “getting higher year by year”. In Chinese people’s mind, the higher you are, the more prosperous your business is. Main ingredients of Nian Gao are sticky rice, sugar, Chestnuts, Chinese date and lotus leaves.

Above are the major food that most Chinese eat during the Chinese New Year. China is a big country. There are some differences betweent the north and the south. Chinese in south China eat chicken, duck, pork, beef, fish as their New Year food too.