Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in China, celebrated for 15 days based on the lunar calendar. Decorations often feature red colors, cherry blossoms, and sunflowers to symbolize prosperity, luck, and a good new year. A significant festivity is the dragon dance, where a large puppet dragon is paraded through the streets with help from puppeteers. Dragons are highly symbolic in Chinese culture and represent qualities like good luck, power, wisdom, and kindness that people hope to possess in the new year. Chinese dragons have four claws, no wings but can fly, and are covered in scales rather than being viewed as evil like some Western dragons.

1. CHINESE DRAGONS