| About Spring Festival |
| The Spring Festival is called also Chinese New Year. It is a major holiday of Chain. Today they are decorating the homes with New Year paintings. Everyone, young and old, rich and poor, looks forward to celebrating the noisiest, most joyous and longest festival of the year. When Spring Festival comes, spring comes as well. Everything comes to life and plants are prosperous. Traditionally this festival begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar. This is celebrated for about fifteen days is one moment in the year when the whole nation feels united as they can imagine each other's enjoyment. In China, people may take weeks of holiday from work to prepare for and celebrate the New Year. It is not official holiday. Spring Festival, it is sometimes called the Lunar New Year. At Spring Festival celebrations people wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper, and give children "lucky money" in red envelopes. Family members gather at each other's homes for visits and shared meals, most significantly a feast on New Year's Eve. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors. Chinese New Year celebration becomes much more meaningful. And what can be better if you can also send Chinese New Year greeting cards. In many places, lion dances and dragon lantern show are performed during Spring Festival. Spring festival is celebrated grandly and extensively across the country. |
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