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Chinese New Year Songs

Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is the most important festival in China. It is the time for good wishes, hopes and expectations. Special songs will be sung during the time to suite the mood of the festival. Here we have collected four Chinese New Year songs for you to listen to online. Our China Festival Tours offer travelers the unique opportunity to enjoy Chinese traditional songs and dance.

Gongxi, Gongxi

Chinese New Year song; Gongxi Facai

Smile at everyone you see
Everyone in the family
On this Happy New Year's Day
We wish you a "Kong Si", "Kong Si"
Kong Si, Kong Si, Kong Si Nee yah
Kong Si, Kong Si, Kong Si Nee

 

Xin Nian Hao (Happy New Year)

Chinese New Year song: Happy New Year

After the good harvests in all four seasons
soon comes the new year.
what a joyful new year!
firecrackers are crackling in every neighborhood
people play the dragon lanterns, walk on the stilts              
receive fortune god and silver nuggets

every family is brimming with happiness
after the good harvests in all four seasons
soon comes the new year
what a joyful year!
firecrackers are crackling in every neighborhood
people play the dragon lanterns and walk on the stilts.
and receive fortune god and silver nuggets
every family is brimming with happiness

everybody smiles
saying to each other "happy new year!"
Happy new year
what a joyful new year!  
old and young, men and women
all are dressed up in new clothes
each brimming with happiness 

let's welcome the new year.

 

Gong Xi Fa Cai (Wish You Prosperity and Wealth)

Gong Xi Fa Cai is a very popular new year song


wish you prosperity and wealth
wish you a brilliant life
best things come and
bad ones go away
you can never enough of it.
I wish girls around the world
each marry a good boy
the young couples always stick together
I wish kids around the world would be
smarter than professors
All are with heads full of good ideas
I wish the respectable grannies
can run 36 laps around the track
with great ease
I wish my uncle a booming business
and a fame around the world
May he make a good fortune and live in a posh house.
nd stride forward
be happy-go-lucky and misfortunes never come
wish you prosperity and wealth
say it loudly
wish you prosperity and wealth
wish you prosperity and wealth
wish you brilliant life 
best things come to you
bad ones go away
you can never say enough of it.

everybody always has smile on face
nurture love with heart
and will be greater tomorrow
I wish all the frustrations run away
faster than Bolt
talents come up every year  
all stride forward
be happy-go-lucky and misfortunes never come
wish you prosperity and wealth
say it loud
wish you prosperity and wealth
wish you brilliant life
best things come
bad ones go away
you can never say enough of it

 

Bai Nian (New Year Visit)

New year visit: Chinese New Year song

Now it comes the new year
friends and relatives are all rejoicing
every household is waiting for visitors
firecrackers are crackling and spluttering
on every door
there are red paper couplets

now it comes the new year
kids are the happiest
put on their new clothes
get ready to pay new-year visits
Daddy and mommy
give me a fat red envelope

New year has come
girls are busy and exciting
the eldest sister wears plum blossom hat
the elder sister put on her purple silk blouse
the youngest sister 
put on the red silk shoes that symbolize good luck

now it comes new year season
relatives and friends are all rejoicing
everybody greets each other
wish you good luck
more fortune, more children,
peace and happiness  

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