The Spring Festival in China

All people around the world know that Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people and is of great significance. During the festival, people set off firecrackers, hold lion dancing, make dumplings and so on. All these have become fixed custom. Spring Festival is a festival for families and relatives, people especially Chinese value family and kinsfolk most. No matter busy people or drifters will go back home to celebrate Spring Festival with their parents and enjoy warmth in laughter. This kind of warmth has nothing to do with power, money and snobbery. It is an occasion for people to deepen affection, communication and solidarity. The first thing for Chinese to celebrate Spring Festival is that all the people will wear new clothes; they will dress up beautiful and bright. Various kinds of jewelry such as coral beads or Swarovski pendants are worn on body, the new clothes represents good luck. Everybody will spend the New Year with new attitude. New Year’s Eve dinner is probably the most brilliant chapter in the memory. Even if those poor people, they fell very happy, because they have the most precious wealth—family’s love. According to the legend, year is the breast in the wild age which constantly hurt humans’ animals. In order to expel year, people burn bamboo which later turns into firecracker. Practice of setting off firecrackers in China has a history of more than 2000 years. It is a happy occasion for people to get together, jubilant firecrackers symbolize welcome of the arrival of the New Year. In 1983, the TV began to spread. How to bring happiness for Chinese audience on the evening of New Year’s Eve? Then Spring Festival party came into being. It becomes a convention for people to watch Spring Festival Gala. According to legend, “happy new year” means that on the new year’s morning, people congratulate each other to celebrate they are not eaten by this beast. Nowadays, people visit relatives and friends to celebrate the upcoming of a new year and wish good luck of each other. People’s best wishes for families, expectations for the New Year do not reduce with the rapid progress of the new era and the times. Spring Festival is a festival that reflects Chinese traditional culture. The celebration of Spring Festival is a review and of peace, friendship and affection, is the best blessing and prayer for the future. Chinese New Year’s culture has a long history of Chinese culture, the oriental culture, which has been popular around the globe. Today, Spring Festival is not only important for Chinese people; many foreign people also begin to celebrate it.