Chinese Spring Festival

(by Zhang Mengchu-Judy)

Hi~everyone, I'm going to introduce Chinese Spring Festival. As you know,It's a traditional festival for Chinese people, it's still very popular until now.

Red is Chinese colour, so you can see everyone 's houses are decorated with different kind of red stuffs. Remember every year when we spent the Spring Festival, our whole family would get together and kept chatting all day. Now I'll introduce you some customs. Actually,every region has their own customs, I'm from Hui Bei province, we have to visit a grave to cherish the memory of the dead in the morning at the New Year's Eve. First I felt kind of scary because this day is a good day, why we were going to burying ground?? Then my father told me that we must celebrate this festive day with our dead ancestores and some of our relatives who were dead too. There are not alive now, however, we need to memorize them and we need to share these joys with them. Except this one, I think our other Spring Festival customs are as the same as other

regions in China. In the morning, parents would take their children visit their relatives, I have to admit these are good way to get more red bags. Then children would like to squibbing firecrackers in front of their house, which are not allow to do today. Children also could get the red bag from parents or other relatives, I still remember I got most money in 2007's, which make me laugh all day. When it trun 7:00pm or later, we always have a big meal with all family's members, there're every kinds of dishs like dumpling, rice, noodle and spring roll. At night, adults always like play Mah-Jong while children like play game.

This is our Chinese Spring Festival,I think the most essential part is the whole family could get together, because in our lives, family is the most important thing to us. By the way, I can't come back to China this Spring Festival, I felt a little disappointed, but I can spend Chrismas here, which is good to me too.