China traditional festival - the Spring Festival
The first day in January of chinese calendar , is Chinese new year. During Chinese traditional festival, which is one of the most important, most exciting festivals. Because the lunar new year is an ending of the winter and the beginning of the spring, so people named it "spring festival".
Chinese have many traditional customs of spring festival. From the twelfth lunar monthtwenty-three, people start to prepare for the new year. During this period, every household should be clean, shopping, window stickers, hanging pictures, couplets,steamed rice cakes, made all sorts of food, ready for welcoming the new year.
On the eve of the spring festival called "New Year's eve". On New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion. The family were sitting together, eating a sumptuous dinner, talking and laughing, until daybreak, which is called Shou sui. New year's Eve 12:00 the bell ringing,people eat dumplings. In ancient times called zero "Midnight", new year's Eve midnight is the time of the New Year Eve, people eat dumplings at this time is to take "more year old son" mean. This is the origin of the name "dumpling".
After the new year's Eve is the first day of the lunar year. From the first day of the lunar year, people visit relatives and friends, pay New Year's call each other. Pay New Year's call, is an important custom for the spring festival. Happy new year, everyone should saysome wish happiness, health auspicious words