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What are the customs of the Spring Festival in English?

Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival

Couplets poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry

Spring Festival couplets

paper-cuts paper-cuts

New Year paintings New Year paintings

Special purchases for the Spring Festival do Spring Festival shopping propose a toast

lantern: a portable light

fireworks fireworks

firecrackers (People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.)

red packets red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.)

Lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.)

Lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.)

dragon dance dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests) opera traditional opera

variety show; vaudeville

Lantern riddles written on lanterns

灯谜 riddles written on lanterns

灯会 exhibit of lanterns

守岁岁 staying-up

拜年 pay New Year's call; give New Year's greetings; New Year's visit

The New Year's visit is a time when a person is invited to visit a place where he or she will have a chance to meet with others. visit

Taboo

Taboo

Get rid of the ill- fortune

Offer sacrifices to one's ancestors

Lunar New Year's money gift money; money given to gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift