In Chinese New Year Eve, the year end in Lunar Calendar (Dec. 29^th or Dec. 30^th in great month), people will select an auspicious period to pray to Heaven God with gratitude to his whole-year protection.  Before the ceremony, family has to glue New Year couplets or auspicious mottos on doors, windows, Buddha shrine, and cupboards, and later pay respects to God respectively by ages, with firecrackers once completion.     From 12 Am to dawn, everywhere is full of new year joys.  In the afternoon, three kinds of fowls and alcohols will be devoted to God, so call as “Bid Farewell” to symbol a good end of a year.  In the evening, all family gathers for New Year Eve Dinner, and children will be given with “red envelopes” of money after dinner to mean joyful welcome to the coming year.

The auspicious hours will be selected for God praying.  People have to shower, inside hallway below Heaven God censor set a dedication table completed with censor, offering box, red candles, left and right-side flower sets, five kinds of meats, tea and alcohol, red rice balls, new year cake, golden plum, ball cakes, cookies and candies, fruits, flowers, and paper money, fire incenses to expel evils and stink, and pray respectively by genders and ages, male and elderly first.  All family members hold three incenses to sincerely pray for God’s blessing, plug them in the censor, knee down for three times and knock head for nine times, refill tea for three times, burn paper money, pour tea or alcohol on burned ash for a circle, and finally fire firework.  In “Bid Farewell” , three fowls, alcohols, Chinese rice cake, and a full bowl of rice plugged with a paper flower, so called as “Cross-Year Rice” in front to God,  are all prepared, and fireworks are ignited once festival completion.

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