Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the "Lunar New Year" by English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese:正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as chú xī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.
Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tt), and formerly the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu). Outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Chinese Taiwan, Chinese New Year is also celebrated in countries with significant Han Chinese populations, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. In countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post, Canada Post, and the US Postal Service issues New Year's themed stamps.
Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families. Food will include such items as pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet delicacies. The family will end the night with firecrackers. Early the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is a great way to reconcile forgetting all grudges, and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.
When clock is belling,my heart ripple along with it,to distant with you,transmit my missing,to be joyful!My dear friend!
Please open the window,let the new year's wind blow your room and the snow flying in,my warming wish flutter to your heart!
Flowers are disseminationing fragrant,friendship transmissing warm,hope us to brimming in a happy year,wishes you: Happy New Year! Best wishes! Does not experience the wind and rain, how can see the rainbow?nobody can casually succeed!So refuel!The same as New year!
Missing are a smell of flower fragrance,inundated the mountain valley,cover your and me,and blessing are the boundless attention,overflow the eye,until the hugging and listening the new year'clock,just like listening the breath of annual,crowding around our same dream,making the sincerly blessing with the ture love,Happy New Year!
My dear friend!wish you happy usually,have the vitality continually,still have happiness and content,I'm very happy to cooperate with you in the past year,hoped you best wishes in the new year!The breeze lightly strokes,the white clouds far pass,in my heart was the eternal friendship,willing my blessing is the most freshest,and you will take it to your heart!
Crack, crack, crack... With the explosion of firecrackers, we ushered in the Year of the Tiger in the bustling Sound of the Spring Festival.
In the Spring Festival, I like two things, one is to pay New Year's greetings to relatives and friends, New Year's money; Another thing is to set off firecrackers and fireworks.
Grandpa's backyard is very big, we can play there to our hearts' content. My younger brother and I were holding a lit incense in one hand and a scattered small whip in the other. When we touched the small whip with incense heads, the joy on our faces and hearts could not be described in words. Later, we carried a long hanging whip with a stick, grandpa lit firecrackers, we listened to the sound of firecrackers "crackling", the smile on his face, feeling the happiness of the Spring Festival!
"Wayan, wayan, look!" Little brother took my hand. Grandpa is putting "dragon teng Tiger roar", fireworks in the air burst, sometimes like a big chrysanthemum, sometimes like a childlike innocence, sometimes like a bud.
However, the most beautiful or a called "flash flower" fireworks, fireworks in the sky blooming, those little twinkling stars like hanging in the sky, twinkle, look, that big fireworks like a meteor, pulled out of a long tail. There are times, from the fireworks out of a blossoming exquisite scene, colorful flowers, dotted in the night sky, is very good-looking.
This Spring Festival, really interesting, really make me unforgettable!
Thank you!
Dear teachers and fellow students,Everybody is good!My favorite time is Spring Festival.
Remember New Year's Eve, the adults are watching the Spring Festival party, to welcome the arrival of the New Year, we children like to play outside, point firecrackers. New Year's Eve night, every door hung red lanterns, like a red big persimmon, there are more than fifty near our home, the festive atmosphere, I miss very much. After the Spring Festival party, I will sleep for three or four hours, and when I get up, I can eat delicious dumplings. After dinner dad took me to someone else's home New Year's visit, every to a will have a rich harvest, candy, peanuts, melon seeds and so on, after a few, my pocket is bulging, I will be full. Of course, New Year's money will not be less, the money I will be handed over to my mother, such as the need to ask my mother to, occasionally can also get a little pocket money, AT that time I was both happy and depressed, worried that my money will never return.
Pocket money I mostly go to buy some firecrackers, we will put firecrackers in the bottle lit, "when", deafening, sometimes put a few together lit, "boom", the bottle will be blown apart, later know this is very dangerous, easy to hurt people, you can not imitate ah.
The most happy is in the evening to play with fire, a few of our small partners together, so that both can be happy to play, and can keep warm, but also can burn peanuts to eat, until very late to go home, the next morning up, see the pile of ash, will think of the scene we play with fire
Chinese New Year, is the most yearning for childhood things, eat well, have fun, often think of will be that nostalgia and yearning
Thank you!
When clock is belling,my heart ripple along with it,to distant with you,transmit my missing,to be joyful!My dear friend!
Please open the window,let the new year's wind blow your room and the snow flying in,my warming wish flutter to your heart!
Flowers are disseminationing fragrant,friendship transmissing warm,hope us to brimming in a happy year,wishes you: Happy New Year! Best wishes! Does not experience the wind and rain, how can see the rainbow?nobody can casually succeed!So refuel!The same as New year!
Missing are a smell of flower fragrance,inundated the mountain valley,cover your and me,and blessing are the boundless attention,overflow the eye,until the hugging and listening the new year'clock,just like listening the breath of annual,crowding around our same dream,making the sincerly blessing with the ture love,Happy New Year!
My dear friend!wish you happy usually,have the vitality continually,still have happiness and content,I'm very happy to cooperate with you in the past year,hoped you best wishes in the new year!The breeze lightly strokes,the white clouds far pass,in my heart was the eternal friendship,willing my blessing is the most freshest,and you will take it to your heart!!!
Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year Day. I enjoy it very much. On the Chinese New Year Day, some of our relatives come to visit us. They often give me some lucky money. Then I would play with their children. We often play firecrakers together, which is quite interesting.
At night the whole family would sit together, talking and watching TV programmes. Sometimes we take pictures of the whole family members in the house. I often go to bed late during the holiday, but I don't feel fired at all. I think the Spring Festival is the most enjoyable day for every family in China.
The spring festival
Good afternoon everyone.I’m Wu Yunfei .Today ,I’ll talk about the topic about spring festival .
The Spring festival ,Chinese New Year,is the most important festival for all us. But we find the western festival become more popular than New Year in the recently years. some people wonder whether the Christmas will replace the Spring Festival in the future.we can find easily Christmas cards become popular with students.Meanwhile the Spring Festival is less appealing to youngsters.Then this worry is fairly unnecessary .Why?Do we should treasure the Spring Festival forever?
In my opinion ,the Spring Festival as the most influential traditional festival have important meaning for us .Several days before the new year， people begin to prepare. Farmers kill pigs，sheep，cocks and hens. City dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables. Houses are cleaned； coupletsare (春联)posted on the doors. Colorful lanterns are hung at the gate.All family members will get together on New Year Eve to have a big meal . During which people do not work except for the workers on duty. Students do not go to school,and shops are closed. At the same time ,everyone celebrates to each other . When people meet on the way， they say to each other "Happy New Year"..At about 12 oclock，some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly. How busy it is！ On the first early
morning of one year，Friends and relatives pay new year calls and gives presents to each other. At that time，children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents，grandparents,uncles,aunts and so on.
I think，it is natural that with increasing exchanges with the West，a lot of Western holidays have been gradually introduced into China. For us Chinese we should never neglect or even discard our own traditional festivals. For centuries Chinese have observed this traditional holiday to welcome the beginning of a new year. And we will treasure the Spring Festival forever.
Halloween always falls on 31 's a holiday for thatday,children always wear fancy clothes and then,they go from house tohouse to say "Trick or Treat",so that people will treat them with ey don't receive any candies,they'll play a trick on sometimes ifthe people are going out,when the children come,they'll put the candies in acarved pumpkin dren will take the candies of thechildren enjoy this holiday very much.
New Year's Day, red lanterns hung up, the golden "fu" posted up, festival drums and gongs beat up! I walk with my mother in the street, suddenly found that the taste of the New Year has gradually thick up, the streets everywhere decorated with lights, people carrying bags shuttle in various shopping malls, to buy New Year's goods, new clothes, and children's favorite fireworks.
I remember my mother told me about the Spring Festival when she was young. During the Spring Festival, every family would not only fry melon seeds and make winter rice candy, but also make rice cakes. Early in the morning pull a load of rice to line up with the hand, as a series of process, do white sticky rice into the rice cake machine, the teacher with a clean technique, teeming with warm, white and tender, thin, soft rice cake out, with a rice cake fell into a ball and customizing all kinds of salty, sweet, stuck, delicious rice cake regiment was created, The cold winter has suddenly become warm.
Now want to eat rice cake, you can go to the supermarket to buy at any time, but has not eaten the taste of my mother at that time, but you can imagine my mother's happy smile at that time.
The Spring Festival let me understand the Spring Festival of all kinds of customs, experience the human world of affection.
Thank you!
The last day of the lunar year, called "New Year's eve," hakka also called "night" this sum. The first day, the first lunar month on the first day of the lunar year, commonly known as for the day, with 2, 3 is called the Spring Festival. Hakka covers the Chinese New Year Spring Festival, from the lunar December 24th in years, until the 15th day of the lantern.
By December 25, we all call "into the years of world" which means that today is New Year, so families will be in his own home, cleaning, office necessities and stuffed tofu, cook heap (rice cake)...
The thirty on New Year's eve, families will be in the house, then for the first point set off firecrackers: our local called "take the lead". By early in the morning, open the door, the first thing is to put a string of firecrackers, this is good start. Hakka people, we call junior "des day", that day, the accumulation of filth thoroughly clean sweep out, called "send off".
In the January 4. Woke up business is sweeping the floor, took a brush from the outside, to sweep goods into; Farmers said it was a day to eat garlic and pig, said ate chee, garlic, ACTS as "and" long in the New Year.
This is our hakka celebrate the Spring Festival customs.