Spring Festival is also called Chinese New Year. It is a festival celebrated by the Chinese people at the beginning of the lunar calendar year. Spring Festival is the most important festival in China.
Spring Festival usually lasts for one and half a month,it can be divided into three parts:preparation for the Chinese New Year, New Year’s Eve, New Year's Day.
During the preparation for the Chinese New Year, as Chinese traditional customs, parents and grandparents will sweep every corner of the houses and clean the windows until they gleam.And they will also wash clothes, buy foods and goods for the new year’s future use and presents. People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune ,the scrolls used to have red background and Chinese poems using black Chinese character. What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass.
On New Year’s Eve, families get together and have a big meal . The meal is more delicious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and can not be excluded, in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean lucky, remains and richness. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chat and watchTV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in. In many places people like to set off firecrackers. The fireworks further emphasizes on the beauties of the festival at night. Banging and booming all around,Flapping and flopping everywhere.
On New Year’s Days, most of people get up early and say “happy new year” to each other. For breakfast, people often eat dumplings,since dumplings’ Chinese name“jiaozi”in sound means"bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Children will be the most benefited group because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for their increased ages and good luck . This activity named “bainian”.After this,a series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing and lantern festivals will be held for days.
The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished. After all,people go on working with good starting of this year.Besides,they are expecting the coming of next Spring Festival.
By Shell.Wu
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