The first day of the month is the first Chinese lunar new year of C considered the Spring Festival. This is the traditional festival, the largest in China and solemn, like Christmas in the West.
During the Spring Festival, every family is busy cleaning the house, hoping to get rid of dirt and disease prevention. They are also door-stick God’s Spring Festival couplets, and vice versa Chinese character (meaning blessing) and posting banners in the hope of prayer for a good omen for the new year. On the eve of New Year, every family have a great dinner, fireworks, playing the dragon dance and lion dance, and stay until the end of popular or overnight. will make a visit to the new year by the other day and it was not until the 15th day of 1st lunar month, which is the lantern festival as the Spring Festival is over.
On the eve of the new year, people working away from home will succeed, come back, regardless of long distance, so the big dinner the night before the New Year is also known as Family Reunion Dinner. What is the economic situation, all meals with the family to make the most beautiful and formally in a year. Escorts take food at the start and all family members willing to sit together and dumplings, cheer. At noon, the clock running when a new year, the old, shoot fireworks, each family will receive the new update and send the old one. After New Year’s Eve is the first day of Spring Festival, a day after the payment of the application of the new year (Bainian), while people do their best wishes to the other is busy with the words happier phrases such as Happy New Year and you may be happy, money, etc. Seniors New Year in a red bag (yasuiqian) and put her children as a gift. We believe that the focus of the new year should be to ensure continuity, nothing, otherwise you will lose good luck all year, and sweeping the ground is to scan the wealth and happiness.
Traditional dishes prepared for the spring varies with customs in different areas. However, it is preferred, with good names, meanings and forms, means New Year Cake (in Chinese niangao highest year , which for better luck in the new year, and the form of gold and silver block), dumplings , which is shaped like rods, which proposes bringing wealth and treasure, and a symbol of fish accumulate wealth.
The records of history, leads the spring festivals of God and the worship of ancestors of Shang Dynasty. Today, these superstitious notion was deleted and replaced by a symbol of unity, happiness and hope.
