Chinese New Year 2026 PowerPoint Template

What's Inside

The file contains 16 slides in 16:9 format: 12 content slides that tell the story of the new year, three design guide slides and a closing slide with a link to more templates. The content slides already include short, friendly text that you can keep or rewrite.

• Title: "Chinese New Year 2026" in tall gold lettering beside a golden horse inside a decorative circle, with hanging lanterns and blue wave patterns.
• Contents: a 12-item agenda in three columns, framed by red, teal and white flowers and stylized clouds.
• About: a short explanation of the Lunar New Year as the start of a new lunar cycle, celebrated with family gatherings, decorations and traditions for luck and prosperity.
• Why 2026 Is Special: introduces the Year of the Horse as a symbol of movement, ambition, independence and vitality.
• What the Horse Represents: four golden banners with cloud ends, listing freedom, strength, success through effort and passion.
• Year of the Horse Traits: four framed labels describing traits often linked with the Horse, such as energetic and independent.
• Spirit of the Horse: a full-slide golden horse illustration between flowing gold ribbons, with a one-line message.
• The Year Ahead: a five-point timeline through the seasons, from spring to winter, each with a gold circle icon.
• Key Themes of 2026: five gold circles arranged around a center, labeled growth, action, confidence, freedom and change.
• Quote: a well-known Chinese proverb about a long journey beginning with a single step, beside golden bamboo.
• Big Numbers: three gold circles showing 1, 12 and 365 with short captions about the zodiac cycle and the year.
• Welcome the Year of the Horse: a closing message with a large golden horse head and lanterns.

After the main deck you will find a Fonts slide (Medula One for headings in caps, Noto Sans for body text), an Elements slide with extra boxes and shapes, an Icons slide with matching festive icons, and a final slide pointing to more templates on Prezentr.

Design and Style

The whole deck is built on a deep, glowing red background with a subtle repeating wave texture, the classic color of luck and celebration for the Lunar New Year. Gold is used for the horse illustrations, headings, banners and circles, which gives everything a rich, festive shine. Teal and navy appear in the clouds, waves and flowers, adding contrast so the red and gold never feel flat.

The horse artwork is drawn in an ornate papercut style, with floral patterns inside the body, and it changes pose from slide to slide: galloping, rearing, standing proudly and shown as a close-up head. Thin gold corner brackets frame each slide like a traditional border. Headings use Medula One, a tall, condensed display font with a hand-cut feel, while body text uses the clean Noto Sans.

The deck is also animated. Every slide uses a Morph transition, so shapes glide smoothly from one slide to the next, and most content slides have entrance animations that reveal text and graphics one by one. Morph needs PowerPoint 2019, Microsoft 365 or a recent version of PowerPoint for the web; older versions will show a simple fade instead.

Who Is This Template For?

• Teachers introducing the Lunar New Year, the Chinese zodiac or world festivals to their class.
• Students preparing a culture project or a short talk on the Year of the Horse.
• Event planners and community groups organizing a new year party, dinner or festival.
• HR and office teams hosting a celebration, team lunch or new year kickoff meeting.
• Restaurants and shops presenting a seasonal menu, promotion or in-store event.
• Content creators making a festive video or social post using the slides as a backdrop.

How to Customize It

Download the Chinese New Year 2026 PPT template and open it in PowerPoint. Before editing, install the Medula One and Noto Sans fonts, both listed on the Fonts slide, so the headings keep their look. Then click any text box to keep, tweak or replace the pre-written content.

To swap an image, right-click it and choose Change Picture. Use the extra boxes and shapes on the Elements slide to build new layouts, and copy icons from the Icons slide wherever you need them; the guide slide notes that you can download the icons in SVG format to recolor them. Duplicate slides from the thumbnail panel, drag them into a new order and delete the guide slides before you present.

To keep the Morph effect working, avoid renaming or deleting the shapes that appear on consecutive slides. You can adjust or remove entrance animations in the Animations pane, and change the transition speed on the Transitions tab. If you prefer a static deck, select all slides and set the transition to None.

Presentation Ideas

• A classroom lesson on how the Lunar New Year is celebrated, from family reunions to decorations.
• An introduction to the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, focusing on the Horse.
• A new year kickoff for your team, using the Key Themes slide for goals like growth and confidence.
• A festival or dinner event plan with a schedule built on the Year Ahead timeline.
• A seasonal marketing campaign for a restaurant or shop celebrating the new year.
• A cultural exchange presentation comparing new year traditions around the world.

Related Templates

Looking for another year or style? Try the Chinese New Year 2025 PowerPoint Template, the Chinese New Year 2024 PowerPoint Template and the China PowerPoint Template. For more slides with motion, browse all animated templates.