The Chinese New Year, which is also popularly called the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is one of the most important festivals in the Chinese culture which is celebrated by millions across the world. This year, the Chinese New Year will be celebrated on January 29, 2025 (Wednesday) thus marking the beginning of a new lunar calendar and welcoming the Year of the Snake.
For the unversed, in the Chinese culture, each and every animal of the 12 zodiac signs is linked with specific personality traits. And this zodiac cycle rotates every 12 years. Thus, the animal representing a Chinese year will influence the personalities of people who are born in that year. For instance, since 2025 is the year of the snake it symbolises wisdom, transformation, and intuition. As we step into 2025, let’s these qualities denoted by the snake in our lives.
The Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year is the perfect time to pause and reflect on the past year, and set new goals for the coming year. This is also the time for people to meet their loved ones, express their gratitude, and spend quality time together. The Festival of Lights is an important part of the celebrations and it symbolises the warmth and light we all wish to have into our lives.
To help you wish your friends, family, colleagues, and loves one on this important day, here we list 50+ heartfelt wishes, greetings, messages, and quotes for the Festival of Lights. This will definitely brighten up their day:
Heartfelt Wishes for Chinese New Year 2025
Chinese New Year & Lunar 2025 New Year Wishes and Messages:
1. Wishing you lots of happiness and prosperity in this new Year of the Snake. Happy New Year 2025!
2. May this Chinese New Year bring you lots of joy, love, good health, luck and success. Happy New Year 2025!
3. Here’s wishing you and your loved ones a very happy new year, from our family to yours!
4. As the New Year begins, may your home and hearts be filled with love and abundance. Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
5. May your new year be filled with grace and strength, just like the Snake. Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
6. Sending you lots of love, luck, and blessings for a great new year ahead. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
7. Wishing you a year filled with glowing lanterns, tasty feasts, and lovely moments with loved ones. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
8. Happy Chinese New Year 2025, from our family to yours!
9. Happy Lunar New Year 2025, from our family to yours!
10. May your life be filled with sparkling colours, just like the festival of lights!
11. May all your troubles vanish this new year. Love and luck, happy Lunar New Year 2025!
12. May the Year of the Snake bring you resilience, grace, and good fortune. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
13. May your new year be filled with golden opportunities and boundless joy. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
14. Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
15. Sending good wishes your way. Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
16. As we welcome the Lunar New Year, I’m grateful for your love, care, and support. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
17. Let’s welcome another year of making beautiful memories together! Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
18. May the lanterns light up our path to success this new year. Happy Festival of Lights 2025!
19. May we all be wiser and calmer this Year of the Snake. Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
20. Let’s celebrate the Year of the Snake with love, gratitude, and hope for a brighter tomorrow. Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
21. Warm wishes of a lovely new year ahead. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
22. Let’s toast to a new year full of adventures in 2025. Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
23. Gong Xi Fa Cai!
24. Wishing you lots of happiness, prosperity, love and luck this Year of the Snake. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
25. To my lovely friends and family: You are my greatest blessing. Thank you for always being there for me. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
26. Here’s to an incredible Year of the Snake together! Happy Chinese New Year 2025!
27. Wishing you and your team a prosperous Chinese New Year!
28. This new year, I wish you achieve greate joy and success in life. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
29. Let’s make 2025 a year of exciting opportunities and mutual success. Gong Xi Fa Cai!
30. This new year, just like the snake– let us shed away negativity and embrace positivity and success. Happy Lunar New Year 2025!
Chinese New Year & Lunar 2025 Inspiring new year quotes
1. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
2. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
3. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
4. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear.” — John Quincy Adams
5. “Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings.” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
6. “Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
7. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
8. “Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need / For this bright morning dawning for you / The horizon leans forward / Offering you space to place new steps of change.” – Maya Angelou
9. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elio
10. “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
11. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
12. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato Plato
13. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
14. “What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan McLellan
15. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
Traditional Chinese New Year greetings and what they mean
1. Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Meaning: Wishing you great prosperity in the New Year!
2. Xin Nian Kuai Le!
Meaning: Happy New Year!
3. Wan Shi Ru Yi!
Meaning: May everything go as you wish.
4. Nian Nian You Yu!
Meaning: Wishing you abundance every year.
5. Ji Xiang Ru Yi!
Meaning: Best wishes for a lucky and prosperous year.
6. Zhao Cai Jin Bao!
Meaning: Wishing you wealth and treasure.
7. Long Ma Jing Shen!
Meaning: Wishing you vigor and vitality in the New Year.
8. He Jia Huan Le!
Meaning: Wishing happiness and harmony to your family.