Chinese New Year's Eve

The seven days holiday for National Day has just (become the past tense) finished*,the next long holiday we are now on the tiptoe of expectation that is coming soon is Chinese New Year!

For the people like me, a nine-to- five office stuff staff, who are excited about the next coming holiday since it means we will have a good rest after the pressure of daily work.

Chinese New Year is seeming seems to be  the biggest fesitval we will celebrate soon. Chinese New Year's Eve, we usually call it Lunar New Year's Eve as well,will be on Jan 30,2014 this time. And it is a day for the  family to gathering together to have a family reunion dinner.

Most of the people who live in the northern part of China have the same customs and habits in celebrating this day, haveing jiaozi ,normally.But for the southern part the customs and habits vary from place to place , having nian-gao,zongzi,rice,etc. What's more, there are many other kinds of food that I don't haven't mentioned and I even don't know about it exist actually*. Because my hometown, a small town in southern part of China, really has have a different kind of food which is made  making to eat on that day so far I know about other*s.

Although there is a variety of food you can choose to eat at dinner, there are some hard and fast rules on the table refering to the different culture in different place.For example, fish is not allowed to eat be eaten somewhere anywhere in China because of the sound in Chinese "yu", is similar with "nian nian you yu" （年年有余）, which symbolized the fortune and lucky for the coming year.

In addition to the aforementioned food, receiving gift money from the elders after dinner is the most expecting exciting/ keenly awaited thing for the children. It is a red envelope with money inside and given to represent luck and wealth.
Spring festival couplets is the next round after the red envelope, then they stay up for all night.

Last but not least I believe , watching the Spring Festival Gala Evening has becoming popular for some families in China and overseas Chinese.

Above all, I am looking forward to celebrating the festival and having a good time with my lovely family.