Spring Festival Day

On Spring Festival day, Chinese usually have three family happy periods: the afternoon before the festival day, the night before the festival day, and the festival day. All of them make people excited and happy.
Follow the tradition in the afternoon before the festival, every young family goes to their grandma’s home and stays with their parents to prepare for family reunion dinner. There must be fish, chicken, pork feet, and the most special one—dumpling. Why is dumpling the most important? The answer is that the dumpling of the festival will be wrapped with red dates and coins. In Chinese culture when we eat them, during the coming year people can obtain much luck and money, and great health. Usually people must spend an entire afternoon on cooking all of the food. Although the process takes a long time and makes people tired, they also enjoy themselves.
The second part is the eve before festival. There are two exacting activities to do. One is eating and drinking. At 8:00 pm people start to eat a nice dinner. First, the oldest people will give a presentation about the conclusion of the whole year, which includes positive and negative events as well as a big wish for the New Year. After that it’s the drinking part. The young people must drink with the older people with a toast, such as “good luck in everything” and “good health and a long life”, which means young person respect them deeply. The other element is to watch New Year’s party, which is popular all over China. Mr. Zhao is the most famous actor and gives people infinite happiness. We looked forward to seeing on the stage every year. It almost becomes a habit as if the festival dinner is not perfect without him. Till 12:00 pm while the clock is ringing, people go outside and light firecrackers. So many different and colorful firecrackers make the night beautiful and full of detonation. At that moment people happily welcome the coming year.
Finally, on the first day of new year, people wake up early, wear their new clothes for the new year and go to relatives’ and friends’ places to bring good wishes to each other. Particularly, children who don’t have a job could get money as a gift from the older generationwhen they say, “Happy New Year”. Therefore, many friends meeting and enjoying together for the new year is the most important event for the for the festival.
The spring festival is full of welfare atmosphere. Spring Festival is the most important day in the Chinese heart.