The Spring Festival is our country is grandest, a liveliest ancient traditional festival. Popular name “new year's celebration”. According to our country lunar calendar, in first lunar month first day is “Yuan of the year old, Yuan of the month, when the Yuan”, is one year start. The traditional celebration has continued from the lunar New Year's Eve to the first lunar month 15 Lantern Festival. When the lunar New Year's Eve, each and every family whole family joyful reunion, has the New Year supper together, is called “the group year”. During talks and laughs merrily, harmony happiness. Then stays up all night on new year's eve together, talks about old days the words to be new, congratulates mutually encourages. When the new year comes temporary, the firecracker fireworks pushes to the holiday cheerful atmosphere the high tide. Our country northern area has in this time eats the stuffed dumpling the custom, takes “the year old junction child” meaning. But south has eats the lunar new year's cake the custom, symbolic life backgammon. Stays up all night on new year's eve until dawn, happily pastes the spring festival couplet, beats gongs and drums, to be decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, the activity which rings out the old and ring in the new is extremely busy. Moreover, each region also has visits mutually pays new year's call, dances the lion, the dragon lamp dance, develops the popular entertainments to mark the various seasonal festivals, strolls the flower market, enjoys customs and so on lantern festival. |