et's introduce those festivals, according to Lunar Calender.China, a great nation of diverse culture...
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et's introduce those festivals, according to Lunar Calender.
China, a great nation of diverse culture, various ethnic groups and booming economy, has colorful traditional festivals all year around.
When it comes to Chinese festivals, the first biggest one is Spring Festival.
Chinese New Year, also called Spring Festival, has more than 4000 years of history.
Being one of the traditional Chinese festivals, for Chinese people and many other Chinese-speaking communities.
It is the time for seeing off the old year, greeting the new and family reunion, which is equal to Chirstmas of the west.
It also symbolizes the advent of spring, and vitality to the world.
Since the Spring Festival is so important, what do Chinese people usually do to celebrate it?
The answers are:1. Spring Festival Eve dinner. also called " tuanyuan fan" since chinese new year is a time for families to be together, for all the chinese people.
This reunion dinner, is more luxurious than usual, and held on spring festival eve.
all the family members of several generations sit around round tables, and enjoy the food and time together.
Food during this happy event is typical of Chinese festival food culture.
After the dinner, all members of a big family often watch the Spring Festival Gala.
It is also a custom that all people stay up late or all night on SPring Festival Eve, waiting for the New Year's bell at midnight.
people let off the fireworks, to welcome the coming of the new year.
2.Setting off the fireworks, people set off the fireworks for celebration during the whole Spring festival holidays.
Firecrackers, along with fireworks, originated in China.
In the spring featival, people set off firecrackers and fireworks for bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year.
3. the red sea. red, in chinses people's eyes, symbolizes good luck and happiness.
when the spring festival comes, "red" is the main color for the festival, as it is believed to be an auspicious color.
every street, building, and house is decorated with red, red lanrerns are commonly seen in streets, red spring couplets, paper-cuts are pasted on doors.
kids get lucky money which is put in red envelopes.
However, in most of the westerners' eyes, red is associated . with the color of blood, which makes them think of bloodshed,-violence, danger, revenge, sadness, disgust, shame, battle;revolution, radicalism, fire, brutality, taboo, and even debauchery, obscenity.
That is about the first biggest chinese traditional festival---the spring festival