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.