A Brief Introduction of Spring Festival

Spring Festival，the traditional Chinese New Year’s Day，is China’s most important national holiday.The date of the new year is still determined by the lunar calendar even though the government of the Republic of China adopted the international Gregorian calendar in 1912.New Year’s Day typically occurs sometime in early spring（February）.

What Would People Do in Spring Festival

The Spring Festival like Christmas Day in the western countries，is the most important festival in China.Children like it very much because they can have delicious things to eat，pretty clothes to wear and many nice things to play with.When Spring Festival comes，people away from their hometowns usually come back and spend it with their families.People mainly do two things during the festival.One is eating，and the other is playing.They usually buy different kinds of food and make different kinds of delicious dishes，and play in different ways.

In the spirit of setting things straight，all account books should be balanced，debts paid off，and houses cleaned before New Year’s Day.Then houses，businesses，and streets are decked and draped with banners，flowers，and scrolls of vivid red，a traditionally lucky and demon-dispelling hue.People exchange red-wrapped gifts，most commonly the hong bao-cash enclosed in a compact red paper packet-and offer their friends propitious edibles such as red dates（whose Chinese name，hong zao，sounds like the words for”prosperity comes soon”）and tangerines（whose Cantonese pronunciation，kat，sounds like that of the word for“lucky”）.

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