Celebrations of Chinese New Year last for 16 days, and food is heavily involved in them. Here is a guide on what to eat ...

Auspicious dishes include Maine lobster with ginger and onion called Long Ha Gin Sui, and a vegetarian dish eaten to cleanse the system for the new year called Xin Nian Fat Choi Jai.

Of much greater importance, the Chinese were finally eating. As of 2014, Osnos writes that the Chinese people were eating “six times as much meat as 1976.” Stop and think about that.

When is it? How do Chinese people celebrate it? What do Chinese people eat for it? Quiz Some cities in China also put on amazing displays of colourful lights as a part of the celebrations.