Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (simplified Chinese: 春节; traditional Chinese: 春節; pinyin: Chūnjié), or the Lunar New Year (simplified Chinese: 农历新年; traditional Chinese: 農曆新年; pinyin: Nónglì xīnnián), is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is an important holiday in East Asia. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called the Lantern festival (simplified Chinese: 元宵节; traditional Chinese: 元宵節; pinyin: yuánxiāojié).Chinese New Year's Eve is known as Chúxī (除夕). Chu literally means "change" and xi means "Eve".Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had a strong influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans, Mongolians, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, and formerly the Japanese before 1873. In Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and other countries with significant Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated, largely by overseas Chinese, but it is not part of the traditional culture of these countries.

New Year is the most celebrated festival of all important festive seasons in China. It is time for the family reunion, visiting relatives and friends. The holiday will start few days before the New Year to prepare and get ready for a long up coming holiday. People will do shopping for food and cloths.

This article describes favorite Chinese New Year snack foods including my recipe for deep-fried wontons and some sources for good recipes.

The Goji berry has been used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine for it’s health promoting properties. In fact it’s the most potent health food that they know, and in recent years it’s gotten tremendous popularity around the world. Especially in the form of Goji juice products. No there's something new!

The Associated PressNEW YORK, Nov 20: A labour rights group alleged Tuesday crucifixes sold in religious gift shops in the United States are produced under ``horrific'' conditions in a Chinese factory with more than 15-hour work days and inadequate food.``It's a throwback to the worst of the garment sweatshops 10, 20 years ago,'' said...

This time of year in New York City, it’s easy to find elderly Chinese women in Central Park stooped beneath trees, gathering up what look like small plums. The trees are ginkgo trees, which drop their fruit when ripe; the fruit has long been prized in China and Japan as both a food and a medicine.