Lunar New Year Greeting & Gathering Pack

The new year begins at the family's table — everyone home, everyone counted, everyone greeted by name.

Lunar New Year is not one holiday with many names. It is distinct observances kept by distinct families: the Spring Festival in Chinese families, Tết in Vietnamese families, Seollal in Korean families, and other new years in other homes — each with its own greetings, its own foods, its own ways of honoring elders and ancestors. This pack never merges them. The first field asks your family to name your tradition, and every card follows your naming — your greeting, your words, your script.

The greetings are your family's, in your family's language. Xīnnián kuàilè and Gong hei fat choy; Chúc Mừng Năm Mới; Saehae bok mani badeuseyo — the guide holds draft versions of the classic greetings, clearly labeled DRAFT — pending human native-level review, because a new year's greeting deserves a native reader's approval before we call it finished. Your family's own wording fits every field today, in any script, spelled exactly as you write it. No greeting is pre-printed in any language here.

The year is a fact your family confirms, never a decoration. 2027 is the Year of the Goat in the Chinese zodiac (the same sign is also rendered Sheep or Ram in English — your family's word is the one that prints). The animal of the year appears in this pack only as a fact your family writes into a field — it is never drawn, stamped, or used as a motif, because the year belongs to your family's calendar, not to our clip-art. Red and gold are offered as a color choice, never assumed as a costume.

The reunion dinner is the heart. The night before the new year — Friday, February 5, 2027, ahead of the new year on Saturday, February 6 — families gather, across whatever distance, around one table. This pack is built for that room: a greeting that travels, the reunion invitation, a far-away card for the family joining by video across the world (someone is always awake at 3 a.m. for this call, and the card honors that), the thank-you after, and a keepsake of the year's first photo.

Every family shape, at the same table. One parent or two, grandparents honored at the head, blended and adoptive families, chosen family, elders joining by screen — host lines, elder lines, and family lines are fields your family fills. Where a family honors ancestors at the new year, the fields hold that too — named by your family, in your family's way, never scripted by us.

The edit guide also holds one quiet option: a remembrance element for the one who isn't at the table this new year, present in the keepsake in your family's own words. Offered there only, never printed by default.

What you receive

• Greeting card — your family's photo, your greeting in your tradition's words, the year. Phone size (1080×1920) + print 5×7.
• Reunion invitation card — the New Year's Eve reunion dinner (or your family's gathering): date, time, place, RSVP name and number, in the same design.
• Far-away card — a screen-moment card for family joining the reunion by video: the time written in both time zones — and both days, when the date line crosses — sent ahead so they are at the table, not an afterthought.
• Thank-you card — for hosts, elders, and everyone who traveled home, ready when you are.
• Keepsake card — the year's first family photo and a line in your family's words, naming your tradition as your family names it.
• Details sheet — your tradition named first; the family name and greeting written once, in your script; the new year and reunion dates checked as day-date pairs, before you build a single card.
• Video greeting (MP4, ~14 seconds) — a warm vertical video of the greeting card, made for family chats and Stories.
• Layered source files (SVG) — every word editable in free tools.
• Simple edit guide — short numbered steps, written to do in sittings, with per-tradition notes, draft greetings labeled as drafts, photo-consent and address-privacy notes, and the full before-you-send check.

This is a digital product — no physical item is shipped.