Monday, December 12, 2011

Pertinent Info About Asian New Years Dragons

5:03 AM
By Steve Chung


Here is a synopsis on how Chinese traditional songs are chosen and sung during the season of the Chinese New Year.

The moon's signals indicating that the year is coming to an end and the new one is about to start excites the Chinese people. As they follow the lunar calendar moon cycles are important to them. New Years never has a full moon night but you could hear people singing traditional songs that are made for the New Year.

In China, the Chinese New Year is a time of distributing love and positivity. They do away with all the negativity of the last year and look forward to a better New Year, hoping for all good things and prosperity. People tend to be in their happiest moods and wish good to families and friends at this time.

It is no surprise that they have a selection of Chinese New Year songs that have been composed for the purpose of celebrating the coming of the New Year. For your information the Chinese New Year is considered as the most important event of the year according to their lunar calendar. And this is not just now, rather the Chinese New Year celebrations have been going on for many years in the same fashion.

These Chinese songs that are written to greet the coming New Year is all about love and happiness that the people experience or desires to express with the approaching New Year. These songs justify the love and blind faith that Chinese people have towards their traditions and the pride they have for their country.

The Chinese people are a set of people who love nature and peace even though history states that they have had wars through generations. The fundamental composition of the New Year traditional songs intends to express the nationalistic soul of the Chinese people and sometimes also expresses how they live and what they expect from life.

On hearing the composition of some of the New Year songs the level of prestige that the Chinese take in their history and cultural heritage becomes obvious. The songs are sung everywhere during the festive seasons from street corners to the insides of people's homes. Families often gather together and engage in a chorus performance of traditional hit numbers for New Year.

While celebrating the New Year people of China attempt to make it special with fancy costumes when they are singing and dancing. This would be rather strange if observed from a non-Chinese perspective but it is the part and parcel of Chinese traditions.

The Chinese New Year songs are all time classics and have been handed down the generations with their lyrics and compositions. There are however many contemporary artists who come up with songs for New Year and perform them at specially arranged concerts. Hence we find that this is yet another Chinese New Year tradition that the Chinese are firm on maintaining.




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