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1、Chinese New Year Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year. It starts on the 1st and ends on the 15th of lunar January. Spring Festival celebrates the coming of spring. Several days before the New Year, every family prepares rich food, buys new clothes, and cleans the house. Many families buy or write
2、 Spring Festival couplets and put them on the door. People believe that everything must be new and clean for the Spring Festival celebration so that the New Year will bring happiness and good luck. In China, red represents luck.bring happiness and good luck. In China, red represents luck. Origin of
3、the Spring Festival The lunar calendar new year origin, has the basis, also is rich and picks the varied fable to be possible to trace to several millenniums before. Most is famous is “the year beast“ fable. “The year beast“ is a cruel terrible wild animal, ancient times the person believed “year be
4、ast“ when lunar New Years Eve night can come out eats the person. The fable “the year beast“ extremely fears red, the flame and quarrels the person. The fable “the year beast“ extremely fears red, the flame and quarrels the mixed sound, the people on paste the red paper in the gate, and selects the
5、torch all night, is setting off the artillery candle, avoids “the year beast“. To second day early morning, “has congratulated“ the sound to the ear, in the air does not fill the air is defeating “the year beast“ the victory and the rebirth joy. Sweeping the dust “Dust” is homophonic with “chen” in
6、Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting awa
7、y old things to welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new. Pasting Spring Couplets On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet wr
8、itten on the red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival.atmosphere of the Festival. Chinese New Years Eve Dinner In New Years Eve, the most important festival, Chinese family often get together to spend the whole night. They often have the New Years dinner together, and cele
9、brate the New Year in their own way. The New Years dinner is very tasteful and delicious, for it not only a dinner but also a family meeting. Each family member sits around the table and talks while eating. It stands for the harmony and unity of a family. Since the dinner is very important, it takes
10、 too much time and effort to prepare it. For New Y ears dinner, the food is extremely exquisite and traditional. First, Jiaozi is necessary. Jiaozi, also called dumpling. Staying-up Staying-up, is the last day of the old do not sleep at night, stay up all night to greet the arrival of the new year c
11、ustoms. At night, the families get together, spend time to memory the past and discuss future. New Year Day On new year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their elders and parents, wishing them all the lucky in the coming year. While seniors will give juniors some gift money as a
12、wish for their safety in the coming year, wrapped up in red paper. Celebrations Group : Lion dance, variety show, stilt-walking Family: Getting together, family reunion, feasts, watching CCTV New Years show Playing card/majiang, make new years visits Children: Getting red envelope, pocket money , setting off fireworks/Children: Getting red envelope, pocket money , setting off fireworks/ firecrackers, playing games Chinese Elements
