A Lunar New Year song for your family

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A Lunar New Year song for your family

Your family's names, the reunion dinner and the zodiac animal of the year in one song — a New Year greeting to send home or play at the table.

Make this song

Your first song is free — no card needed.

When is Lunar New Year?

The date changes from country to country and from year to year — here it is where you are.

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SingaporeFebruary 17February 6January 26

Lunar New Year is about coming home: the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, red envelopes for the children, visits to the elders and wishes for a good year ahead. Greetings fly between family chats for days, most of them forwarded stickers. A song made for your own family — with the grandparents' names, the dumplings, the year's animal — is a greeting nobody else could have sent.

Describe your family, how you celebrate and what you wish everyone for the year, and the lyrics are written around it, set to a festive melody and sung with real vocals in about a minute. It can be sung in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malay or English — whichever the elders love to hear.

Hear one we made

Family's Home

Pop · 2:38

“A bright, festive Lunar New Year song in English for the Tan family in Singapore. Everyone comes home to Grandma Lian's flat for the reunion dinner: steamboat, her famous dumplings and yusheng we toss as high as we can. The kids collect red packets from every auntie. Wish health to the elders and good exam results to cousin Jun Hao. Put “happy New Year, the whole family's home” in the chorus.”

What to put in a Lunar New Year song

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    The year's zodiac animal and the qualities it is said to bring — energy for the Horse, cleverness for the Monkey.

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    Classic wishes in the family's language: good health, peace, success in studies, prosperity — the phrases the elders say every year.

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    The reunion dinner: who cooks, who travels home, the fish, the dumplings, the rice cakes or the dish your family makes.

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    Grandparents and elders by the titles you use for them — the respect in the form of address matters.

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    Red envelopes, firecrackers, the lion dance outside the shop, the new clothes — small sounds and colours of the day.

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    Family members who can't come home this year, greeted by name so they feel part of the table.

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    A short, cheerful chorus with a greeting everyone can shout, like a song played in shops across the season.

A chorus for the reunion dinner

Red lanterns glowing, the whole family's home,

Grandma Lian's dumplings, nobody eats alone,

health to the elders and luck to every child —

happy New Year, may the whole year smile!

Ways to share it over the holiday

  • A greeting to the family chat. Send the song link instead of a sticker; it plays in any browser, so grandparents don't need to install anything.
  • For those who can't travel home. A personal song with everyone's names is the next best thing to sitting at the reunion dinner.
  • For the children. Make a fun song about the year's animal with the kids' names; it is a game they will want to sing on every visit.
  • A lyric video. Turn family photos from past New Years into a slideshow with the song for stories and reels.

Different traditions, different sounds

Lunar New Year is the biggest holiday of the year in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, and is celebrated as Seollal in Korea and Tết in Vietnam. Each has its own customs: ancestor rites and tteokguk in Korea, peach blossoms and bánh chưng in Vietnam, yusheng tossed for luck in Singapore and Malaysia. For the music, bright festive pop with drums and gongs suits a family party; a softer acoustic song suits a greeting to elders. Avoid sad themes in a New Year song — the first days set the tone for the year.

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    Answer a few questions

    Names, memories, the mood you want. Skip anything you like.

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    We write and sing it

    Lyrics, melody, vocals and cover art — composed around your answers.

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    Play it for them

    Download the MP3, share the link, or play it right there.

Questions

Can the song be in Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese?

Yes. The song can be sung in more than 40 languages, including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Malay, even if you write the description in English.

Can I include the zodiac animal of the year?

Yes. Name the animal in the description and the lyrics can play with it — its traits, a wish tied to it, or a joke for family members born in that year.

Can I send it as a New Year greeting to my family abroad?

Yes. Share the link in WeChat, KakaoTalk, Zalo, WhatsApp or any messenger; it opens in a browser without an app. You can also send it as a gift your family unwraps on their phone.

Can I write my own lyrics with traditional greetings?

Yes. Paste your own lyrics and the song is composed and sung from them, or put the greetings you want in the description and they are worked into the lyrics.

Is a Lunar New Year song free to make?

The first song is free when you sign up, no card needed. More songs are made with credits from a subscription or a credit pack.

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