Chinese New Year in Puerto Chango

Chinese New Year is celebrated in Puerto Chango as a national holiday. Like in other countries, it is celebrated with lion dances, dragon dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives (拜年, bàinián), giving red envelopes, and decorating with chunlian. In Puerto Chango, it is considered their version of Thanksgiving.

Chinese New Year was declared an official holiday in Puerto Chango in 1908.

Celebration
Most businesses are closed except restaurants, malls, stores, and broadcasting facilities.

Liga PC holds the Torneo del Año Nuevo Chino at El Gran Domo de Münchenburgo in Münchenburgo. It is aired on Puerto Chango 1 and gains extremely high ratings on it's telecast.

KFC created a spinoff of the "Kentucky for Christmas" campaign in 1980 called "Kentucky for Chinese New Year", allowing citizens to buy fried chicken as an alternative to turkey or a family meal.

The Sistema de Televisión Estatal de Puerto Chango, it's commercial division 28Média, and 28Média's joint-venture with Viacom known as Viacom28 are known for their Chinese New Year special programming. Puerto Chango 2, Puerto Chango in English, 28Niño, and Nickelodeon have been known to hold marathons of the Canadian-American cartoon Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat on Chinese New Year, airing the show for nearly 24 hours.