Spring Festival is also called Chinese New Year or Chinese Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first lunar month and ends on 15th of the first lunar month. This is also a famous festival which is called lantern festival on 15th. Chinese New Year's eve is also called Chuxi in Chinese.
A dancer performs during the opening ceremony of the Spring Festival Temple Fair at the Temple of Earth park on February 13, 2010 in Beijing, China. Chinese people celebrate the lunar new year of Tiger, which will fall on February 14, 2010. New year celebrations are also refered top as The Spring Festival.
The first day of new year is a time for people to visit and pay respects to their family elders, a time when adult children visit parents and grandparents. It is also a day for welcoming the gods of heaven and earth, and a day when many choose to abstain from meat, believing that this will bring them long and happy lives.
The first day of the first lunar month is regarded as the New Year of the Chinese – the Spring Festival. It is the most important and ceremonious traditional festival in China, just as Christmas Day to the westerners. During the Spring Festival, every family is busy cleaning house in the hope of getting rid of defilements and preventing diseases. Also, they need to paste door-god, spring festival couplets, and the reversed Chinese character “福” (means blessing),and hang ......
