- 1). Make paper lanterns to decorate your house.
- 2). Set up a Tree of Light, or Christmas tree, and adorn it with paper chains, paper flowers and paper lanterns. These trees are usually artificial.
- 3). Help your children hang muslin stockings to be filled with small presents.
- 4). Expect Dun Che Lao Ren, or Christmas Old Man, to visit.
- 5). Participate in local festivals (like Hong Kong's Ta Chiu festival), which happen in many parts of China. They may or may not be directly associated with Christmas.
- 6). Go to church if this religious tradition is an important part of your Christmas celebration. Midnight Mass is popular with the small Catholic population.
- 7). Prepare for the Chinese New Year, officially called the Spring Festival, which marks the beginning of the new Chinese calendar year.
- 8). Buy your children new clothes and toys for the occasion.
- 9). Understand that it's appropriate to honor your ancestors during the New Year's celebration; hang portraits in your home of relatives from past generations.
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Display bowls of oranges and tangerines, which symbolize wealth and good fortune.
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