How to Create a Chinese New Year Video 2025 with Music Free

Last Updated: 2025. 01. 15

Chinese New Year is also called Chinese Spring Festival. On this day, every Chinese family will gather together and have a big meal, decorate their houses with papercuts, lanterns, visit friends and relatives and deliver best wishes for the next year.

2025 is the year of snake. According to the Chinese calendar, the new year day of snake year falls on Jan. 29th and the celebration will last around 2 weeks. Let’s highlight the festive atmosphere by creating some Chinese New Year videos for everyone around you!

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Chinese New Year Video Templates Free to Customize

We all need shortcuts, that's the same when it comes to creating a festive video. Here are Chinese New Year video templates perfect for spreading auspicious wishes and joy. Pick the one you love most and start customizing for free!

Chinese New Year Wishes Video Templates

Following are templates containing wishes that your friends will love in Chinese. The most common wishes are wish you a prosperous year, or wish you good luck in the new year.

New Year Wishes Video
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New Year Wishes Video
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Traditional Chinese New Year Blessing
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Traditional Chinese New Year Blessing
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Chinese Lunar Year Celebration
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Chinese Lunar Year Celebration
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God of Wealth Greeting Message
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God of Wealth Greeting Message
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Chinese New Year Greeting Video Templates for Family

The following 2 templates are great if you want to send wishes from your entire family. After all, Chinese people emphasize reunion and harmony.

New Year Wishes Video
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New Year Wishes Video
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New Year Wish from a Family
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New Year Wish from a Family
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Chinese Lantern Festival Intro

The Chinese lunar new year celebration lasts over 2 weeks and the lantern festival marks the end of the new spring celebration. This year, the lantern festival is on Feb. 12. Traditionally, people enjoy watching elaborate lanterns, solving the riddles on them, and exchanging last-minute new year messages.

Lantern Festival Wishes Video
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Lantern Festival Wishes Video
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Red Lantern New Year Video
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Red Lantern New Year Video
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Chinese New Year Intro

If you need some new year intros for your social media videos, you will love the following video templates. They are modern, and two perfect beginnings for all video content.

New Year 3D Video Intro
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New Year 3D Video Intro
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Gold New Year Intro
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Gold New Year Intro
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How to Create a Chinese New Year Video

Step 1
Preparations

A good start means half success. To create excellent Chinese New Year videos, you have to make the following preparations.

  • Think of what kind of video of Chinese New Year video you want to create. Generally speaking, you can create a Chinese New Year wishes video, Chinese New Year promotional video, or Chinese New Year eCards, Chinese New Year intro/outro for your YouTube channel.
  • Write a good script. You don’t have to be a writer to come up with great wishes. People who watch videos don’t like to read long sentences. One or two sentences are enough for each slide.
  • Excellent videos and photos. You can’t make good food out of bad ingredients. The same goes for creating videos. You need excellent video clips and photos. If you don’t have some, try some red backgrounds with lanterns, dragons. They can never go wrong.
  • Music and audio. You will need some cheering and festive background music. If you want to make the video more professional, make some voiceover for your video.
  • Step 2
    Upload Your Video Clips and Photos to FlexClip

    FlexClip is an online video editor. It has not only powerful video editing tools, but also festive video clips, photos, and music, templates to get started quickly, saving you much trouble in finding resources. Moreover, lots of AI tools like script generator, text-to-speech, text-to-video are available for you to fasten the video editing process. Click on Create a Video to start uploading your media resources.

    Create a Video View Templates

    When you are at FlexClip’s editing panel, click on Media, select Local Files and choose photos, videos, and music from your computer. Alternatively, click on the three horizontal dots to upload media resources from cloud services.

    Upload Media Resources to FlexClip

    Upload Media Resources to FlexClip

    Click on the Add as Scene button, your video will be added to the timeline.

    Apply to the Timeline

    Apply to the Timeline

    Step 3
    Edit Your Chinese New Year Video

    FlexClip has a clear interface where you can find all resources and editing tools easily. All resources like fonts, music, photos, videos, shapes, masks are listed on the left-side panel. Click on any items you added, any edits you can make on that item will appear above the preview window.

    Trim Video: To remove unnecessary parts of your Chinese New Year video clip, you can just drag the slider, or click on the Split icon to cut the video into several parts.

    Trim/Split Video

    Trim/Split Video

    Change Video Speed: Select your video, click on Speed. You can adjust your video from 0.1X to 8X. You can also use curve speed to highlight important parts of a video.

    Change Video Speed at FlexClip

    Change Video Speed at FlexClip

    Add Transition: To make the videos go smoothly, you can add transitions. In total, FlexClip offers over 100 natural transitions to level up your work. Click on the small symbol between the clips to find the transition that is perfect for your video.

    Add Transition Between Videos

    Add Transition Between Videos

    Add Text: Go to the Text section. Choose from basic texts, a variety of titles, lower-thirds, overlays, search bars, add it to your video, and then change text fonts, size, or even animate your text.

    Add Chinese New Year Wishes

    Add Chinese New Year Wishes

    Add Masks: Switch to Elements, you have lots of masks for you to hide certain parts of the video. Pick one mask, drag a video inside the mask.

    Add Masks to Video

    Add Masks to Video

    Here is a more detailed guide that shows you how to create a Chinese New Year video with FlexClip.

    Create a Chinese New Year Video with FlexClip

    Step 4
    Export and Share

    When your Chinese New Year video is done, you can download your video to your computer, one-click share your video to social media platforms, or generate a video link.

    Save & Share Your Chinese New Year Video

    Save & Share Your Chinese New Year Video

    Popular New Year Wishes that Everyone Loves

    It is an arduous task for those who don't speak Chinese to come up with a proper Chinese new year wish. No worries. There are some simple messages that fit all scenarios. Do use them on your Chinese new year video!

  • 新春快乐,万事如意! Happy New Year, may everything go as you wish!
  • 恭喜发财,财源广进! Wishing you prosperity and great wealth!
  • 灵蛇送吉,福星高照! Wish You a thriving Year of the Snake, and may luck shine upon you!
  • 事业腾飞,家庭和谐! Wishing you a thriving career and harmonious family!
  • 大展宏图,鸿运当头! May you achieve great success and be blessed with good luck!
  • 心想事成,事事如意! May your dreams come true and everything go smoothly!
  • What Are Things You Must Keep In Mind to Create a Chinese New Year Video

    Culture

    There are 56 nationalities in China, and not every nationality celebrates this day in the same way. Before sending your Chinese New Year video to your friends, make sure your video content doesn’t offend them. You can also consult some natives.

    Balance Tradition and Modernity

    It is a stereotype that Chinese traditions have never changed. There are some modern things in Chinese New Year, like getting envelopes from Alipay.

    Mind the Zodiac

    2024 is the year of dragon, and 2025 is the year of snake. If you add a wrong zodiac icon, your Chinese new year video would be weird.

    The Bottom Line

    That’s the end of how to create a Chinese New Year video. If you find this post helpful, do share it with others. By the way, FlexClip is also helpful to create videos for other festivals, like Christmas, Valentine’s Day. Remember to give it a try.

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