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How to introduce Chinese New Year to foreigners

First: It's like celebrating Christmas in foreign countries.

Second: Spring Festival is the most characteristic traditional festival in China, which emerged from the period of Yu and Shun. In Chinese folklore, the Spring Festival traditionally refers to the period from the Lunar New Year festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, or the Zaos Festival on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year, until the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and most of the ethnic minorities in China hold celebrations mainly to worship gods and Buddhas, pay homage to ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome good fortune, and pray for a good year. Nowadays, in addition to China, the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam, the Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals in Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Canada.