4. Holidays——Spring Festival

Today is February 3, it is the first day of Chinese New Year. This is the holiday that we Chinese most celebrate in our country. The other name of it is Spring Festival.

Like western people will prepare a lot to celebrate Christmas, we also have sorts of traditions to celebrate Spring Festival. As is known to all that the festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day, but we have to start preparing for it two weeks before the New Year comes. In my hometown, sweeping away any ill-fortune and waiting for the good luck, everyone must clean their houses, including windows, doors and even the ceiling. Not only kids but also adults must buy new clothes, because everyone must wear new clothes in the first day of the year. We also buy and cook much food before the holidays. The seniors will cook steamed buns in different shapes and fry fishes in advance so that we could have enough time to enjoy time with family members on New Year’s Eve. When it comes to the New Year’s Eve, family members will come together and make dumplings together. There are various kinds of stuffing for dumplings. You can make different tastes. We also put dates or coin into dumplings. And if you eat the coin one, it means that you will make a lot of money in the new year. While we make dumplings, we will watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. This is as important as making dumplings in China. Though the shows on it are not wonderful than before, we just can not neglect it because everyone will talk about it in first day of  the new year. So if you want to keep up with times, you must watch the gala on TV.

Above all is how we celebrate Spring Festival.