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About the Spring Festival: Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. This is to celebrate the Lunar New Year. On the night before the Spring Festival, the whole family get together for a big meal. In many places, people like to set off firecrackers. Jiaozi is the most traditional food. Children like this festival very much because they can eat delicious food and wear new clothes. They can also get some money from their parents. This money is a good passage for children. People stick New Year scrolls on the wall for good luck.

The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days. People visit relatives and friends with the words "May you have your wish". People like the Spring Festival, during which they can have a good rest. Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. This is to celebrate the Lunar New Year. On the night before the Spring Festival, the whole family got together for a big meal. People like to set off firecrackers in many places. Jiaozi is the most traditional food. Because they can eat delicious food and wear new clothes, children like festivals very much. They can also get some money from their parents. This money is for children. I hope he will have good luck. People stick New Year scrolls on the wall for good luck.

Spring Festival travel rush lasts about 15 days. People visit relatives and friends and say "May everything be as you wish". At this time, they can have people who have a good rest to enjoy the Spring Festival.

Before the Spring Festival: It happened during the Spring Festival today. I went shopping with my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. This is a rare opportunity, because as a big family, we seldom get together several times a year. On the way to the shopping center, we watched the lion dance. In a word, we had an unforgettable day.

The Origin of China New Year

China New Year is now generally called the Spring Festival, because it begins in beginning of spring (the first of the 24 solar terms, which adapts to the changes of nature). Its origin is too old to trace back. Several explanations are pending. However, everyone agrees that the word "nian" only means "nian" in modern Chinese. It was originally the name of a monster, which began to prey on people the night before the start of the new year.

There is a legend that the monster Nian has a big mouth and can swallow many people in one bite. People are very scared. One day, an old man came to save them and offered to subdue Nian. He said to nian, "I heard that you are very capable, but can you swallow other beasts on the earth instead of your opponent?" Therefore, it really devours many carnivores on the earth, and these animals also harass people and their livestock from time to time.

After that, the old man disappeared riding the Nian beast. He proved to be an immortal god. Now that Nian has gone, other wild animals in the forest are also afraid, and people begin to enjoy their peaceful life. Before the old man left, he told people to put red paper decorations on their windows and doors at the end of each year to scare off Nian and prevent it from sneaking back again, because red is the color that wild animals are most afraid of.

Since then, the tradition of observing the year of conquest has been passed down from generation to generation. The word "Chinese New Year" may mean "surviving the New Year" and has become "celebrating the New Year" today, because "Guo" has both the meaning of "past" and "observation" in Chinese. If Nian has a chance to escape, the custom of pasting red paper and setting off firecrackers to scare it away still exists. However, people today have long forgotten why they do all this, except that they feel that colors and sounds increase the excitement of celebration.

Undoubtedly, the most important festival in China is the Spring Festival, also known as the China New Year. For China people, it is as important as Christmas in the west. The date of this annual celebration is determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so the time of this festival varies from the end of January to the beginning of February.

For ordinary people in China, this festival actually begins on the eve of the Lunar New Year and ends on the fifth day of the first lunar month. But 15 in the first month, usually called Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of this country.

Preparations for the New Year begin in the last few days of the last month, when the house is thoroughly cleaned, the debts are paid, the hair is cut and new clothes are bought. Houses are decorated with scrolls printed with auspicious couplets (as shown on both sides of the paper). In many families, people burn incense at home and in temples to pay tribute to their ancestors and pray for the gods to be healthy in the coming months.

"Chinese New Year", which means "the past year", is a common word used by China people to celebrate the Spring Festival. It actually means welcoming the new year. At midnight at the turn of the new year, people will set off firecrackers to drive away evil spirits and welcome the arrival of the new year. In an instant, the whole city will be submerged in deafening firecrackers.

On New Year's Eve, all family members get together for a big meal. Jiaozi, a kind of steamed dumpling, is very popular in the north, as shown in the picture below, while southerners like a sticky sweet glutinous rice pudding called rice cake.