Chinese Festival

Spring Festival Chinese New Year holds the most significant position among all Chinese festivals and holidays. The Chinese New Year is accompanied by a belief in good future. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival (1). Putting the spring festival scrolls up, hanging the lanterns, having reunion meals, having dumplings, sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all Spring Festival’s customs. (2) Spring Festival is the day for family reunions. On New Year’s Eve, every family often gets together for dinner to welcome in the New Year. The custom is also call “surrounding the hearth”. It symbolizes a family’s unity and harmony. In fact, Chinese New Year’s food is very important to Chinese people. , Traditional dishes include fish, spring roll, sticky rice cake, chicken, noodles, dumplings, sweet lotus seeds and so on. Incidentally, Chinese New Year’s food is not only delicious, but also has symbolic significance. (great use of word!!) For instance, fish sounds like “save more”. Chinese people always like to save more money at the end of the year because they think if they save more, they can make more in the next year. Spring rolls look like a ton of gold, because fried spring rolls are all with golden color, which makes them looking like gold bars, the symbolism of treasure. Sticky rice cake sounds like getting higher year by year, and can imply children’s growth in height, improvement in study, or business, etc. New Year’s dinner is best eaten slowly (great use of passive! ), savoring the flavor of each dish. The lavish meal inspires good team spirit and raises hope for a profitable year. (good vocabulary words here!) We often do many activities during New Year. For example, people believe that burning incense on the first day will bring the whole family good fortune in the coming year. They also wish for health for their parents and a stable and peaceful life for themselves and