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The Spring Festival is the New Year in china,
just as Christmas in Britain. Chinese people attach
much important to the Spring Festival, which is
Chinese traditional festival. And the New Year
Eve is the most important day in the Spring Festival.
So they have many celebrations and customs in
that day.
Chinese has strong attachment to their family,
and Chinese family is usually a big family. In
the past, they always dwell on together. In a
family, there are grandparents, parents, aunts,
uncles and many children. They all live in a big
courtyard. Father, Mother and a few children are
composed a minor family. Every brother of father
makes his own minor family. And with grandparents,
they form a big family. Each minor family possesses
a minor room in a courtyard, which grandparents
live in the major room. Because old person has
the superior position in a family, and Chinese
respect the old as a long-standing tradition.
In the modern time, not every family member lives
in a courtyard but live separately. However, they
still maintain close link with each other. They
often have get together in holidays especially
in festivals. In New Year Eve, the most important
festival, Chinese family often get together to
spend the whole night. They often have the New
Year’s dinner together, and celebrate the New
Year in their own way.
The New Year dinner is very tasteful and delicious,
for it not only a dinner but also a family meeting.
Each family member sits around the table and talks
while eating. It stands for the harmony and unity
of a family. Since the dinner is very important,
it takes too much time and effort to prepare it.
As we all known, Chinese food is the most delicious
food in the world. Perhaps because Chinese people
are very particular about eating. For New Year
dinner, the food is extremely exquisite and traditional.
First, Jiaozi is necessary. Jiaozi, also called
dumpling, is well-known as traditional Chinese
food all over the world. In New Year Eve, we often
make dumplings of meat and vegetable, and we also
make special dumplings. For example, we make a
few dumplings with a coin in them. No matter who
eat these special dumplings, it foresees he will
have luck of wealth the next year. Some special
dumplings with shelled peanut in them mean longevity.
Some with sugar in them mean a sweet life. Besides
these wonderful Jiaozi, there are various cuisines.
Usually, there should be a fish in the table,
which means the family has enough to spare every
year.
After enjoying the New Year dinner, the family
seat in the sofa and watch the television. There
is a culture New Year dinner waiting for them,
which is the Spring Festival Evening Party. Since
the Spring Festival Evening Party began to hold
in 1982, every family consider watching it as
a tradition. The party that is held by CCTV starts
at 8:00 and lasts four and a half hours. It gathers
almost all the Chinese stars in mainland and overseas.
And its style of programs contains songs and dances,
comic dialogues and sketches. CCTV invests big
for this party every year, and they want to make
the party be the best party on TV. Though the
quality of the party decreased these days, it
is still a better party than any other party held
by other television stations. Yet Chinese still
consider it as a culture dinner in New Year Eve.
At 12:00 of the night, the sound of New Year tolling
bell rings. That the exciting moment. Every person
waits for this time. When the bell rings, many
firecrackers sound at the same time. Under this
hot phenomenon, you will feel jubilant and happy.
Every body celebrates this Chinese New Year joyfully.
At the moment, we make and eat Jiaozi again. I
don't know why, it is just a custom. Today it
develops another custom: people always pay a New
Year call at this moment. Not by a visit but by
a phone or mobile phone, we call our relatives
and friends to say Happy New Year, or sent our
wishes by short message. We attach important to
our relatives and friends, however, we don forget
our ancestors. On New Year Eve, we often offer
sacrifices to ancestors and close relatives. We
put food and wine before the picture of ancestors
and burn joss papers for our close relatives.
It expresses our respect and love to them.
Date chinese new year 2005: February 9th
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