Is it Wrong for Chinese Christians to Celebrate Chinese New Year?

This is one tricky question especially from Chinese Christians who had already left the worship of idols and all that pagan nonsense from Babylonian and Chinese superstitious but they want to celebrate Chinese new year. This is almost like the question, "Is it wrong for Christians to celebrate Christmas?" Celebrating the new year isn't wrong per se. We celebrated Chinese new year in  the Baptist academy I attended (since it was a Chinese school)  but we avoided all the superstitions associated with it like Feng Shui and decorations. We displayed red envelopes and Chinese lanterns since there are no religious significance behind them. For some, it became a soulwinning opportunity to the Chinese communities around the world to win the largest group of Gentiles to Jesus Christ. So, I just thought it's okay, yes I see nothing wrong with it compared to Halloween which is always an occult celebration. So nothing is wrong with the celebration if you are just there to gather, have dinner with friends and welcome the lunar new year.

What would be wrong is to be involved in the pagan worship of the gods in the Buddhist and Taoist shrines, going to Feng Shui masters or displaying the Chinese zodiac signs and lucky charms which in this case, this year is the year of the snake which is none other than the symbol of Satan, while last year is the year of the DRAGON, another symbol of Satan. Those gods in the Chinese pantheon are just as dead as every other false god in any pantheon, they are what the Bible would address in Jeremiah 10 saying it's a vain tradition of men not of God, needs to be carried and they are but vanity, all is vanity with these images. Exodus 20:4-5 CLEARLY prohibits the worship of graven images and that's what the pagans do and going to the Chinese temples on Chinese new year to offer incense is an insult to God. Chinese or not when you are a Christian, LET GO of the former things - you already are in the family if Christ! 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore if many man be in Christ, he is a new creature; OLD THINGS are passed away; behold all things have become new." That means the idols are gone, throw them away. Throw every pagan deity away - they are all a big lie and behind every idol is a DEMON!

Some may say, "Well we're just going to eat at the Buddhist or Taoist temple, nothing wrong right?" Uh no. The Bible also warns in 1 Corinthians 10:21, "Ye CANNOT drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils." For a Chinese Christian to do that, it would be as foolish as Jehoshaphat dining with Ahab in 2 Chronicles 18. Such disastrous arrangements may mean having an Athaliah for a daughter-in-law sooner or later. As said, should Chinese Christians want to have a Chinese new year's dinner, invite their fellow Chinese or better yet, even non-Chinese friends to celebrate the dawn of the lunar new year.

As a Chinese Christian saved by God's grace and one of the many sent by Him to spread His Word and preach it unto everyone, I would firmly say this to why I don't go to the Taoist and Buddhist temples to offer incense to the graven images:

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, "For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the LIVING and TRUE God; and to wait for His Son from Heaven whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come."

So no pagan worship for me, no more of those gods that need to be wiped, that they so carelessly say they are not worshiping the idol but the one portrayed by the idol. No, no more- I now serve the God that who is living and true, not a god who is dead and put on the table while its devotees claim the are worshiping its image but the one portrayed. It's still idolatry nonetheless.