[Activities][Greetings] Happy Chinese New year... Few greetings types used in China...

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Hello friends,


 


Happy Chinese New year to each one of you. The Chinese New Year 2016 starts from today. This Chinese New Year will take place from 8 February 2016 to 27 January 2017. 2016 is a year of the Monkey according to the Chinese 12-year animal zodiac cycle. Other Monkey years include: …1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004… If you were born during these years then you’re a Monkey. Each Chinese zodiac year begins on Chinese New Year's Day. During the Lunar New Year period Chinese people greet one another with unique sayings when they meet, where ordinarily they would not greet people with whom they do not have a personal relationship.


The following are some words and phrases that are used as greetings at Chinese New Year (with their Chinese characters, pinyin Romanization for Mandarin Chinese, and English translation).


Beginnings of Greetings and Sayings

Greeting an older (or respected) person is a little different in Chinese: nín for 'you', instead of the common nǐ. For example:


祝您……


Zhu nín... (/joo neen/)


Wish you (older/respected) ...



祝你…… Zhu nǐ ... (/joo nee/)


Wish you (younger/informal) ...



The Most Popular Greetings for Monkey Year 2016

猴年吉祥


Hóunián jíxiáng


Good luck for this Monkey year



猴年大吉  Hóunián dàjí


Lots of luck for this Monkey year



More Complex Greetings for Monkey Year 2016

This sentence gives people five best wishes for this Monkey year.


猴年送你五只猴：

Hóunián sòng nǐ wǔzhī hóu:

This Monkey year, I give you five monkeys,


机灵诡秘如猕猴,

jīling guǐmì rú míhóu,

the ingenuity of the macaque,



健康快乐像马猴,

jiànkāng kuàilè xiàng mǎhóu,

the health and happiness of the monkey,



悠闲富贵似猴子，

yōuxián fùguì shì hóuzi,

the leisure and wealth of monkey-kind,



无忧无虑比猿猴，

wúyōu wúlǜ bǐ yuánhóu,

the lightheartedness of apes and monkeys,



聪明伶俐胜孙猴。

cōngmíng línglì shèng sūnhóu.

and intelligence and wit surpassing the Monkey King.


Common Greetings and Sayings for the Chinese New Year


新年好


Xīnnián hǎo


Happy New Year




过年好


Guònián hǎo


Happy New Year




新年快乐


Xīnnián kuàilè


Happy New Year




新春快乐


Xīnchūn kuàilè


Happy 'New Spring'




春节快乐


Chūnjié kuàilè


Happy Spring Festival



吉祥如意


jíxiáng rúyì


Good fortune according to your wishes




年年有余


Niánnián yǒuyú


Surplus year-after-year




吉星高照


Jíxīng gāozhào


Fortune will smile on you ('lucky star high shines')




心想事成


Xīnxiǎng shì chéng


May all your wishes come true.




大吉大利


Dàjí dàlì


Lots of luck and profits



These were a few of the ways of Chinese New Year greetings which I thought of sharing... Happy Chinese New Year to my entire Meizu team China...