•The Spring Festival
•The New Year’s Day is one of the most important festival in China.At the New Year’s Eve, people wear the new cloths, and play the firecrackers together.
The next day, families all come to the temple to thank for the favor from the god and pray for the favorable weather of the next year.
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There is a legend which telling about the tradition.
Once upon a time, there was a monster called“年”.It came and destroyed the villages every last day in a year. Everything that people gained by their hard works in a whole year was ruined. Villagers were terrible hate the monster. They wish to find a way to kick it out.
Once at a last night of the year,“年”came again. The villagers were frightened and they ran away. “年”had broken into a butcher’s shop. As trying to drive the monster away, the shopkeeper knocked the chopping block with his kitchen knife. The noi broke out, and t
he monster was transfixed: as the matter of fact, the monster was frightened with noi.
Soon afterwards, the shopkeeper found that “年”was not only fear with the noi, but also the firelight from the rub of the knife at the chopping block, and the red cloth in the shop. So, the shopkeeper knocked the block and shaked the red cloth for the whole night.
The next day, “年”was confud and ran away. People all came down the street and celebrated. They came to the butcher’s shop and thanked the shopkeeper for his driving away“年”.
From then on, people had come into being a custom like prent time:
•at the last evening of the year, every family mince the pork and make dumplings;
• they all come down the street, wearing new cloths in sharp color;
植树节的意义•firecrackers can be en everywhere;
兵卒•on the door, there are couplets, which the prai words are written; 丁香作用
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•at the next day, the first day of the new year, people call on with each other.
•Which people do at this time was named“过年”.
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•Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened. On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, eds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus eds, beans, longan and gingko.
•The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to enjoy themlves.
•七年级历史上册After the Preliminary Eve, people begin preparing for the coming New Year. This is called "Seeing the New Year in".
•Store owners are busy then as everybody goes out to purcha necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of purchasing.
•Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.
•Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chine calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from hou owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.
•The Chine character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character pu
t on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chine the "reverd fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raid on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be en on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the wall.
•Waking up on New Year, everybody dress up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.
•Southern Chine eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, becau as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.
