Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. Before the Spring Festival People clean their houses,put red couplets on their gates,and set off firecrackers to drive away the legendary monster “Nian”.
We have lots of traditions. First, we clean our house and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red. It means good luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. We also buy clothes and everyone has a haircut.
Our parents and grandparents give us New Year presents. They are usually new clothes. On New Year’bais Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends. There is dragon and lion dancing.
The family have dinner and we jiaozi – a kind of dumpling, or a sweet rice pudding. We watch TV and at midnight there are usually fireworks. We don’t clean the house for a few days. We don’t want to sweep away good luck. And we have lots of food for good luck.
新年节日结束在元宵节后两周,我们通常吃一种汤圆称为元宵。他们是圆的,所以他们给我们带来好运。
The New Year Festival finishes at Lantern Festival after two weeks. We usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao. They are round and so they bring us good luck all the year round.
Chinese Spring Festival celebrating the end of winter and the warmth of spring. It began in the last day of the lunar year, end in the 15th day of lunar New Year, also is the Lantern Festival.
During the Spring Festival, people use red lantern and Spring Festival couplets to decorate their house, put on all kinds of colored clothes. They often visit their friends and relatives or together eat dumplings, fish, meat and other yummy food. The children are looking forward to receiving red envelope money. And together they set off fireworks, with joy and excitement.
There will be dragon and lion dance and some other carnival activities on the street. CCTV will held the grand Spring Festival gala and everyone will sit in front of the TV to watch it.