Three Reasons That Spring Festival Drives Me Crazy Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year. It should have been a very happy and joyful festival but the following reasons drive me crazy, though, I’m Chinese. First It’s one of the traditions the minors need to pay a New Year phone call to the elders in the early morning at the first day of Spring Festival. It was a torment for me to do it with my grandmother because we didn’t understand each other when she could only speaks dialect and I could only speak Mandarin so we needed my father to be a translator. Moreover the relatives kept asking me the same old questions year by year covering my school life and my career. Even if I had already answered them, they still kept nagging me as if my replies couldn’t satisfy their expectation. Second I hardly had a good sleep during the festival. Firework and firecracker have already been banned in the downtown, yet in the suburbs every family plays them at the 24 o’clock, usually it doesn’t finish until the next morning. For the rest days, they still play firecracker in the early morning. The dogs often got scared by the huge sound, starting to bark for minutes. The air was full of pungent smell due to the dust mainly left by the firecracker. Third, In each of the past few years, I was tired of hearing the argument from my parents about where they spent festival. I was very reluctant to return to my father’s hometown because every time he drove by car with 9 hours. In his hometown, there were many distant relatives I met for the first time and probably the last time but I had to address them with a smile when I met them, otherwise, they would think I was impolite and disrespected them. The Chinese terms of address for relatives are very complicated because we have specific terms for every relative. What made me awkward was when I tried to address a relative who is the sister of my father’s mother but I didn’t know the term for her so I had to ask my aunt in a whisper. The 7-day vacation was too short for me to have a good rest since we had to pay a visit to our relatives and friends in such cold days. It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation but it made me busier and sleepy. I hope 2017 Spring Festival will have some changes, compared to the past few years.