What is known, by far the most important festival in China, the Spring Festival, known as the Chinese New Year. For the Chinese people is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates of this annual celebration is determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so that the calendar of holidays from late January to early February.
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For ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of Lunar New Year and ends on the fifth day of the first lunar month.
But this means that 15 of the first month, usually on the Lantern Festival, the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.
Preparations for the New Year begins on the last day of the last moon, when houses cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and bought new clothes. The houses are equipped with rolls of paper with the verse low contrast (as in the two sides of the page), and in many homes, people burn incense at home and in temples honor of their ancestors to pay and ask the gods for good health in the coming months.
To celebrate Guo Nian, then the transition time, the generic term for the Spring Festival, the Chinese people. This actually means greeting the new year. At midnight on the eve of the old and the new year, sometimes people only fireworks that are used to record the removal of evil spirits and the arrival of the new year. At a time when the whole town will be plunged in the deafening noise of firecrackers.
New Year, all members of a family, appreciate it. Jiaozi, a steamed dumplings, as in the picture below is popular in the north, the south is a sticky sweet glutinous rice pudding called Nian Gao.
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