Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the most important festival in China. Families come together to celebrate, following traditions that have lasted for thousands of years. This exhibition assembled objects with symbolic and ritual significance in the New Year’s feast, as well as costumes, ancestor portraits, prints of the kitchen god, and presentations of traditional foods.
Chinese New Year Exhibition
1986 中国新年展
February 5 – 23, 1986
Organized by China Institute
Media Coverage
- “Food Notes: New Year Exhibition,” The New York Times, February 5, 1986.
- Anita Christy, “’Making Use of Pure Blessings,’ Sixty Years of the China Institute in America,” Orientations, October 1986.
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