Chinese Spring Festival

Chinese Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is the most important festival in China. The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month and ends on 15th that month. The celebration of the festival lasted for 15 days, but preparations for it started 10 days before the Chinese New Year's Day. Traditional chinese people would sweep and clean the whole house. Spring couplets, written in black ink on large vertical scrolls of red paper, were put in pairs on the side of the door. The other traditional decorations includes posting red paper-cut on windows, and putting large red "lucky" on the door. On Chinese New Year's Eve, all the family members will try their best to go home and have New Year's Feast together. New year cake and dumplings are two must-have dishes on New Year's Feast. After this dinner, people like go outside to have fireworks. On Chinese New Year day, people usually wear new clothes of red color, and put even number cash in the red envelope and give it to unmarried kids. Chinese Spring Festival celebrations ended on the 15th of the First Moon with the Lantern Festival. On the evening of that day, people celebrated with lanterns displays and children carrying lanterns in a great parade.