Me, personally, do all the mentioned things, leave the company one day before New Year Eve, help my parents to clean the house, make dumplings, glue chunlian, fire firecracks, watch CCTV New Year’s Gala, and visit relative and old friends.

On new year eve, we will have family reunion dinner, round dumplings and Chinese ravioli are the main dishes. The whole family will watch Spring Festival Gala Evening in CCTV1. The first day of new year is most important for us, we will all go out to visit every neighbors, people bless each other become richer and more healthy, they share their own food also. During the remaining days, we will visit our relatives, having very good dinners together. Oh, I almost forget to mention fireworks, ancestor worship and chunlian, we will hold a small ancestor worship ceremony before the reunion dinner and firework is a must during it. We also do some fireworks in every morning and nights during these days, the big sound and smoke smell make these days be special. Children also do a lot of firework that are custom made with small power. Every family post new chunlian (antithetic couplets , poetic couplet) or ‘福’ on their doors and furniture to bless a more prosperous new year.

Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, also often be called Lunar New Year, is a major holiday for Chinese all around of the world. The holiday begins on the first day of first lunar month, then we all have 7 days national holidays, factories, schools, shops etc. will all closed, families just stay together enjoying food and having fun. But before that we have to do a lot of preparations especially, people will pour out money to buy food and clothing. The most happiness for me when I was a child is to put on new clothes and shoes but now Chinese are rich, the gift for children become more diversified such as expensive toys, electronic game equipments and famous brand clothes and shoes. Our parents will also spend a lot of time to cook very delicious and traditional food, such as New Year cake (nian gao) which is made of glutinous rice flour, Chinese ravioli (Jiaozi) which is made of flour with various fillings such as chopped pork and vegetables, and steamed bread(man tou) , cooking for those foods is a little complicated and time-cost job for one family as you have to get some special tools, so neighbors gathered in one of their houses to help each. It’s wintertime, fires from the oven and steams from hot water make a really warm atmosphere. Parents call back their children who are getting hungry after too much chasing and frolic outside to taste fresh-out-of-the-oven steamed cakes and breads, as it’s the best time to eat them. Of course snacks like candies and nuts (mostly earthnuts) are stuffed in every family, the house is also cleaned without any dust, ok, now, all the preparation done.

i will stay with my family to have a great dinner, watch TV show,count down the last seconds of the year,let off fireworks .

Visit friends & relatives and gather for a reunion dinner.