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Chinese New Year AI Video Generator

Chinese New Year AI video: a lion dance, a lantern lane with firecrackers or a reunion dinner as a 5-second vertical clip with sound. 63 credits, no photo.

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  • Text to video
  • 5s / 10s / 15s
  • 480P
  • Audio available
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A lion dance up to the camera.Made on Cicadas · MiniMax H3 Max · 5s
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About Chinese New Year AI video on Cicadas

Make a Chinese New Year AI video from text alone, for Lunar New Year greetings. Pick a scene: a red-and-gold lion dances up to the camera and bows, red lanterns sway over an old stone lane while firecrackers pop, or chopsticks lift a dumpling from a steaming basket beside a whole fish, mandarins and red envelopes. Cicadas makes it with MiniMax H3 Max as a vertical clip of 5, 10 or 15 seconds with its own sound track. Nothing is uploaded. The scenes ask for no faces and no characters in the picture, so add your greeting in your phone's editor. A 5-second clip is 63 credits.

Chinese New Year AI video examples made on Cicadas

Text to video5s · 480P

A lion dance up to the camera.

MiniMax H3 Max, 5 seconds with sound, vertical, from text alone; back in 23 seconds. In a courtyard of grey brick walls under rows of red lanterns, a red-and-gold lion dance costume leaps in from behind a wall, prances toward the camera, rears up to its full height and bows. No performer's face shows, and the walls carry no signs. This is our second take: the first had door plaques with made-up characters. The camera stays low and still. The sound is fast, rhythmic drumming, with no speech or singing.

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Text to video5s · 480P

Red lanterns and firecrackers in an old lane.

MiniMax H3 Max, 5 seconds with sound, vertical, from text alone; back in 14 seconds. The camera moves forward down a narrow stone lane between grey brick walls at night. Strings of round red lanterns hang along both sides, red firecrackers on bamboo poles spark and pop, and smoke drifts through the red light. The prompt asks for walls with no doors; the clip has doorways with red frames, and no sign or character on them. This is our second take: the first showed a small door sign with made-up marks. The sound is firecrackers popping fast; one listener also heard faint shouting. No music.

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Text to video5s · 480P

Dumplings, a whole fish and red envelopes.

MiniMax H3 Max, 5 seconds with sound, vertical, from text alone; back in 34 seconds. On a round wooden table in warm light, steam rises from a bamboo basket of dumplings; chopsticks come in from the right, held by fingertips just inside the edge of the frame, and lift one out as the camera pushes in. Around the basket are a whole steamed fish with spring onion, mandarin oranges with their leaves and red envelopes with a plain gold seal. No face is seen and no character is written anywhere. The sound is a click and then a soft, steady sound like steam, with no speech or music.

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Why use Cicadas for Chinese New Year AI video

Three scenes: lion dance, lantern lane, reunion dinner

Lion dance: the lion leaps in, prances toward you, rears up and bows in a courtyard hung with lanterns; no performer's face shows in our clip. Lantern lane: the camera moves forward under rows of round red lanterns between grey brick walls, with firecrackers sparking on bamboo poles. Reunion dinner: dumplings, a whole steamed fish, mandarin oranges and plain red envelopes in warm light. Each has a recorded clip on this page.

No made-up characters on the walls

Video models tend to draw door couplets and signs with characters that are not real. Our first lion and lane clips both came back with such marks on door plaques. The scenes now ask for bare walls with no signs or banners, and the clips on this page show no writing. Add 新年快乐, 恭喜发财 or your own words afterwards, where they will be written correctly.

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At 480P, 5 seconds is 63 credits, 10 seconds is 125 and 15 seconds is 188; at 768P they are 100, 200 and 300. A failed generation returns its credits.

How to use Chinese New Year AI video

  1. 01

    Sign in and pick a scene: lion dance, lantern lane or reunion dinner.

  2. 02

    Edit the prompt if you like, keep 5 seconds or choose 10 or 15, and check the quote.

  3. 03

    Generate. Save the MP4, then add your greeting in your phone's editor.

Chinese New Year AI video prompt ideas

Copy one into the prompt box above and adapt it to your shot. Or write your own shot by shot in the prompt generator.

  • “A walled stone courtyard at dusk hung with red lanterns, with bare plain walls behind and no doors, vertical. A red-and-gold lion dance costume with big blinking eyes leaps, shakes its furry head and prances toward the camera, then rears up and bows. The camera stays low and still, one continuous shot, no cuts. Sound: a big drum and cymbals beating a festive rhythm, no singing, no voices. No faces, no text, no characters, no signs, no banners.”

  • “An old stone lane at night between two bare grey brick walls with no doors and no windows, hung with rows of glowing round red lanterns, vertical. The lanterns sway in a light breeze, a string of red firecrackers hanging from a bamboo pole pops and sparks at the side of the lane and smoke drifts through the red light. The camera moves forward slowly under the lanterns, one continuous shot, no cuts. Sound: firecrackers popping and a distant drum, no singing, no voices. No people, no text, no characters, no signs, no banners.”

  • “A round table in warm light set for a Lunar New Year family dinner, vertical. Steam rises from a bamboo basket of dumplings as chopsticks lift one out, with a whole steamed fish, mandarin oranges and plain red envelopes around it. The camera pushes in slowly, one continuous shot, no cuts. Sound: steam hissing softly and chopsticks tapping a bowl, no music, no voices. No faces, no text, no characters on the envelopes.”

Chinese New Year AI video FAQ

Tested on Cicadas · reviewed 2026-10-13

Recorded on 2026-10-13 with MiniMax H3 Max text-to-video through fal.ai, each request sent once with the exact scene prompt of this page: 5 seconds, 9:16, 480P with sound. Lion dance: back in 23 seconds; a red-and-gold lion leaps in, prances to the camera, rears up and bows in a grey brick courtyard under red lanterns. Lantern lane: 14 seconds; the camera moves down a stone lane under rows of red lanterns while firecrackers on bamboo poles spark. Reunion dinner: 34 seconds; chopsticks lift a dumpling from a bamboo basket beside a whole fish, mandarins and red envelopes with a plain gold seal. The lion and the lane were recorded twice: in the first takes a pair of door plaques and a small door sign carried marks that look like Chinese characters and are not. Both scenes now ask for bare walls with no doors, signs or banners, and the page shows the second takes; the second lane clip still has doorways, with nothing written on them. We looked at eleven frames of each clip, three of them at full size, with enlarged crops of the doors, and saw no face, no character or lettering and no logo in the three clips shown. Sound (two automated listeners, not human listening): fast rhythmic drumming; firecrackers, with faint crowd shouting for one listener; a click and a soft steady sound in the dinner clip. Neither reports singing or a melody. Not tested: 10 and 15 seconds, 768P, other shapes, zodiac animals, and prompts that ask for characters.

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