Literally, it does. But xin nian hao is ambiguous - can be used for either January 1st or Chinese New Year, whereas gongxi fa cai is only used for Chinese New Year (or at least it was where I lived).
We weren't planning anything, due to the fact that Q currently has an hour-and-a-half commute each way to his teaching practise and on Wednesdays also has to teach an evening class! But his trainee-teacher classmates were meeting in a restaurant, so we had a New Year meal with many jokes.
But sweeping out the house for the new year? Red-gold decorations? Lucky couplets? All that nice Spring Festival stuff we should have been doing? Not a sausage :( Maybe next year...
And Happy New Year to you, too! We had fireworks in the city last night to celebrate the Year of the Rat - too bad I couldn't go and see them, I was too busy. :(
Fireworks would have been fun - though what I really associate with Chinese New Year is noisy and frankly dangerous bangers! Nothing like that where I was, alas.
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Date: 2008-02-06 06:43 pm (UTC)How do you say Happy New Year in Chinese?
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Date: 2008-02-06 07:19 pm (UTC)(gongxi fa cai!)
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Date: 2008-02-07 11:20 am (UTC)We weren't planning anything, due to the fact that Q currently has an hour-and-a-half commute each way to his teaching practise and on Wednesdays also has to teach an evening class! But his trainee-teacher classmates were meeting in a restaurant, so we had a New Year meal with many jokes.
But sweeping out the house for the new year? Red-gold decorations? Lucky couplets? All that nice Spring Festival stuff we should have been doing? Not a sausage :( Maybe next year...
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Date: 2008-02-07 03:34 pm (UTC)Happy New Year!
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