Chinese New Year, known in China as Spring Festival, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays and is sometimes called the Lunar New Year.

The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. This year it begins on the 26th January and runs until the 10th of February. This year Tsingtao supported a number of China Town celebrations across the country as well as conducting promotions in city centre bars and restaurants.

Click here to view the details of Tsingtao's 2009 Chinese New Year Celebrations.

There are a number of ways of saying Happy New Year in Chinese, the most common being the phrase "Kung Hei Fat Choi" which roughly translated means "Congratulations and be prosperous".

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