春节的作文英语5句话【优秀20篇】

Home in accordance with the custom of the Chinese New Year Spring Festival home, the Spring Festival is in the first month late start, home of the spring festival. The saying goes: the wax is seven Laba, and the chin is frozen out. Its the coldest time of the year. A month to wax at the beginning of eight, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year day than a day. The day before the day of the Laba, the grandmother made the big Baiyun bean in the basin in advance; the white lotus seed was raised with hot water and then the green core was removed. In the second day, the beans become round and big. The white beans congee first under the boil for 20 minutes. Then, put some rice, glutinous rice, wheat kernels, Nostoc and jujube, beans and chestnuts. Its not porridge, its as if its showing a years harvest. Composition network

After that, there were vendors selling things on the street, all kinds of vegetables, all kinds of toys, different colors of clothes and all kinds of fireworks and fireworks. Its dazzling. In the eyes of the boys, the most attractive thing to attract them is the firecrackers and fireworks. Composition network

In the first month of the twenty-three year Spring Festival seems to be the prelude. On this day, the whole family is going to clean the house. Small is the folk people day. It is said that this day, the kitchen must report to the Jade Emperor God that one family of good and evil, let the emperor punished. People, but also the fire melted candy, painted the kitchen gods mouth, so that he would not be in the Jade Emperor said before.

After twenty-three, everyone gets busy. The blink of the new year comes. Before the new years Eve, the family must stick the Spring Festival couplets well and have to clean up the couplets once. The meat, the chicken, the fish, the green vegetable and the rice cake will be prepared enough, at least enough for a week. Red lanterns were also hung on the street. According to grandmothers words, the new years Eve all the cut out of the things to be cut out, save in a month is beginning to the fifth and the knife, knife cut is unlucky. It contains the meaning of superstition, but it also shows that we are really peace loving people who do not want to move a kitchen knife at the first year of the year.

The new years Eve is the last day of the year. This day is the day for people to eat, drink, play, and enjoy. This day, even in relatively small staying-up late on new years Eve, children, people are awake. The legend of ancient times, there is a fierce monster, scattered in the dense forests in the deep mountains, the people they called "years". Its appearance is fierce, ferocious, eats birds and animals, 62 worms, a day for a taste from kowtow to eat large insects has been living, people talk about "the" colors. Later, people gradually mastered the "year" activity, it is every three hundred and sixty-five days across the areas where people taste a fresh mouth, and the haunt of the time after dark, until dawn crowing, they will return to the mountains to go.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck.

The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”. People enjoy the Spring Festival, during this time they can have a good rest.

The Lunar New Year is a great occasion to the Chinese people.It lasts about the first four days of the year,during which people do not work except for the workers on duty.Students do not go to school,and shops are closed.

Several days before the new year,people begin to prepare.Farmers kill pigs,sheep,cocks and hens.City dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables.Houses are cleaned； coupletsare posted on the doors.Colourful lanterns are hung at the gate.

On the eve of the new year,each family has its members gatherd together and eats a family reunion dinner.After the meal they watch TV until the clock strickes twelve.Then every family sets off long strings of small firecrackers and other fire works to welcome the new year.On the first day of the new year,almost everyone is dressed in his or her best.When people meet on the way,they say to each other "Happy New Year".Friends and relatives pay new year calls and gives presents to each other.Children indulge themselves in games.

The Spring Festival, gathering, every family decorated, beaming. I also put on your mother bought me new clothes, new shoes on. Mother said: "your child to eat, finish eat, I take you to my grandmas New Year." When he heard that I jumped with joy to New Year greetings. I saw there are a lot of people on the road to grandmas house with gifts, some drive, some walking, everyone is happier.

For a moment, my mother and I to grandmas home, I saw grandma, hurriedly walked over and said: "grandma, I wish you longevity and health." Grandma smiled, touch my head and said: "do you really understand, really polite." Say that finish, the grandmother from his pocket and took out a red packets to me, my hands to a red envelope, said happily: "thank you grandma." Then Cousins and sisters and I went out to play, mom and dad chat in my grandmas house. We set off firecrackers to grandmothers space to play, I also brought a car, I control the car called as he ran, accidentally fell and made Cousins, Cousins to laugh. Play to the noon, eat family reunion dinner to go home. I said to my father: "today I had a good time, also made Cousins, tables, and sisters laughed, I am very happy today."

Ah! New Years day good ah, I like the Spring Festival.

春节到了，万家团圆，家家户户都张灯结彩，喜气洋洋。我还穿上妈妈给我买的新衣服，穿上新鞋。妈妈说：“孩子快点吃，吃完了，我带你去外婆家拜年。”一听说去拜年我高兴得跳了起来。我去外婆家的路上看见了有许多人带着礼品，有的开车，有的走路，每个人都喜笑颜开的。

一会儿，我和妈妈到了外婆家，我看见外婆，连忙走过去说：“外婆，祝你健康长寿。”外婆笑了，摸摸我的头说：“你真懂事，真有礼貌。”说完，外婆从口袋里拿出一个红包给我，我双手接红包，高兴地说：“谢谢你外婆。”然后我和表兄弟表姐妹们去玩，妈妈和爸爸进外婆家的房子里聊天。我们去外婆的空地去玩放鞭炮，我还带来了一架赛车，我控制赛车一边跑一边叫，一不小心摔了一跤，逗得表兄弟、表姐妹捧腹大笑。直玩到中午，吃了团圆饭才回家。我对爸爸说：“今天我玩得很高兴，还逗得表兄弟、表姐妹捧腹大笑呢，今天我很高兴。”

啊!过年可真好呀，我喜欢过春节。

Spring Festival is a traditional festival in china.Chinese Spring Festival celebrating the end of winter and the warmthof spring. The whole family got together happily for the spring festival. Decorations are hanging up everywhere in the city on the springfestival. we have the Spring Festivals celebrations with feasts and fireworks. Welcome to have the Chinese New Year with my family!

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar’s New Year. In the evening before the Spring Festival, families get together and have a big meal. Children like the festival very much, because they can have delicious food, wear new clothes, and also get some lucky money from their parents. Parents want this money will bring good lucky to children. The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long. People enjoy the Spring Festival, during this time they can have a good rest.

I had a wonderful time this Spring Festival, we all put on new clothes, get the lucky money, taste the delicious food, play to the manifold blessings that lie in the fireworks firecracker, saw the wonderful Spring Festival gala... The most memorable to me is that colourful fireworks!

Since to the flower market and bought after the fireworks, Ive been looking forward to the arrival of the year, because the day can play to fun interesting fireworks.

Finally, the day arrived, I was so happy in my heart, like eat the doping! After eating dinner, dad and I happily with fireworks and gun platform to the third floor, "out of the blue marble, out of the blue marble", on the third floor has a lot of people in the play firecrackers to celebrate the New Year. I also cant wait to come up with a gun like bombs let father, himself like a flee for lifes little rabbit ran so far! This gun rotated, rotating at the same time also spew out golden fire, flame spray out, jump up out of the blue rattled play firecrackers. Wow, this gun is so rich and colorful! I took out a rubiks cube box of the rockets, father lit the fuse, 25 small gun with sound box have to fly to heaven, and bursting charming flowers in the sky, I also jumped up excitedly, really want to and they compare discretion!

Its so wonderful! My heart sighs. Suddenly, a loud noise startled me, it turns out that the other side of the village in a large-scale fireworks! The bursting fireworks like pieces of beautiful flowers, the color of the beautiful flowers really much ah, there are red, green, white, yellow... Watch, I as if went into the ocean of beautiful flowers, is full of colorful, beautiful flowers...

The Spring Festival is really interesting! I had a wonderful time!

这个春节我过得非常愉快，我们都穿上了新衣服，拿到了压岁钱，尝到了美味的饭菜，玩到了千姿百态的烟花鞭炮，看到了精彩的春节联欢晚会……最令我难忘的就是那五彩缤纷的烟花了!

自从逛完花市，买了烟花之后，我就一直盼望着大年三十的到来，因为那天就可以玩到好玩有趣的烟花了。

终于，这天来到了，我心里高兴极了，像吃了兴奋剂一样!吃完年夜饭，我兴高采烈地和爸爸拿着烟花和炮来到三楼平台放，“霹雳啪啦，霹雳啪啦”，三楼已经有很多人在打鞭炮庆祝新年了。我也迫不及待地拿出一个像炸弹的炮让爸爸点，自己却像个逃命的小兔子一样跑得远远地了!这个炮开始旋转了，旋转的同时还喷出金黄色的火焰，火焰喷完了，就跳起来霹雳啪啦地打起鞭炮来。哇，原来这个炮这么丰富多彩呀!我又拿出一个像魔方盒的火箭炮，爸爸点燃了导火线，盒子里25个小炮带着响声陆续飞上天，在天空中绽开迷人的花朵，我也兴奋地跳起来，真想和它们比比高低呀!

真是太奇妙了呀!我发自内心地感叹到。突然，一声巨响把我吓了一跳，原来，对面的小区在放大型烟花呢!那绽开的烟花像一朵朵绚丽的鲜花，那些美丽的鲜花的颜色可真多呀，有红的、绿的、白的、黄的……看着看着，我仿佛走进了美丽的花的海洋，到处都是五颜六色、千姿百态的花朵……

这个春节真有意思!我过得非常愉快!

In our hometown, the new year from La eight began almost at the beginning of the month, people continued to prepare the streets but also some special purchases for the Spring Festival, set up a stall, selling new year paintings. Although it is not in the real sense of the new year, but from peoples busy, also revealed a strong flavor of the year.

It should be the most important day after the number of the twelfth lunar month twenty-three, great to hear people say, this day to Jizao God, but also it Clay oven rolls. Its the small sugar pancake, which children love most.

Next to the most important is the year thirty, that is, the new years Eve, the street is more lively. The afternoon of every family busy couplets, grave worship their ancestors. In the evening, there is a very important task, it is in the evening, staying-up late on new years Eve, in addition to the very small children, other people have to stay up until the wee hours of the morning, to twelve points after another appeared in the sound of firecrackers, impression, then began to grandma and bread dumplings. For children, there is an important thing for — — put firecrackers, the children always love to take some brightly coloured cannon to put, the child is no exception, they are even larger than some children also love shooting.

In the first day of the year, we should go to the elderly and bring the money. At noon, the family will have to sit together and eat a reunion meal. The second day, mostly to pay New Years call relatives. During this period, children always like to follow the adult to join the relatives, because they can get a lot of age money.

In a word, although the Spring Festival in the hometown is roughly the same as other places, there is always a strong flavor of the hometown.

December 30, the first day to the fifteenth day of the day is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival, there are many folk customs, such as New Year, setting off firecrackers, get lucky money...

The origin of the Spring Festival because of a story. On New Years day, there was a monster called in to cause disturbance in the village. Years of appearance is very fierce. At this moment, there are an old man went into the village. Old lady hurriedly escape nien persuaded him to go to the mountain, but the old man slowly said: "if you let me stay overnight in the home, I will drive away the years." Years and came into the village, in the middle of the night, and found the old woman home with red couplets, startled. All of a sudden, the yard came the villagers firecrackers, years frighten ran. The villagers go back to the village, they saw there safe and sound, old woman to the villagers about all this. Years after being away on that day, never appear. The villagers live a life to live and work in peace and contentment.

From then on, people set off firecrackers every year the Spring Festival, paste couplets...

十二月三十，正月初一到正月十五是春节。春节有许多民俗，比如拜年、放鞭炮、拿压岁钱……

春节的来历是因为一个故事。除夕节那天，有个叫年的怪兽来村里捣乱。年的样子很凶猛。这时，有一位老人走进了村子。老婆婆连忙劝他赶紧去山上躲避年兽，可是老人却不紧不慢地说：“你若让我在家呆一夜，我一定会把年赶走的。”半夜时分，年又闯进了村里，发现老婆婆家门口贴着红对联，年吓了一跳。突然，院子里传来了噼里啪啦的鞭炮声，年吓得拔腿就跑。村民们回到村里，看见里面安然无恙，老婆婆向村民们诉说了这一切。那天年被吓跑后，再也没有出现。村民们过着安居乐业的生活。

从此，人们每年春节都要放鞭炮，贴对联……

My spring festival

This year I have a happy spring featival with my family.

On New Years Eve,all the family people get together to have a big dinner in the resturant.During the dinner we have a small talk and play some games.

Thanks to this spring festival,it make our family people get toghther.We enjoy ourselves and in the new year we all fighting.

译文：我的春节

今年我有一个与我的家人快乐的春节.

在除夕夜,全家人聚在一起吃顿大餐.吃饭的时候,我们有一个聊天和玩游戏.

感谢这个春节,它使我们的家庭团聚.我们享受自己在新的一年里我们的战斗.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It‘s to celebrate

the lunar calendar ’s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival

，families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set

off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the

festival very much ，because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes

.They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to

children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good

fortune .

The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and

friends with the words “Have all your wishes ”。 People enjoy the Spring Festival

，during this time they can have a good rest .

The Spring Festival, Chinese New Year,is the most important festival for all of us. All family members get together on New YearEve to have a big meal.At the same time, everyone celebrates to each other.At about 12 oclock,some parents and children light crackers.The whole sky is lighted brightly. We may watch the fireworks excitedly.How busy it is!

On the first early moring of one year, many senior citizen get up early and they stick the reversed Fu or hang some couplets on the front door. Some houses windows are sticked on red paper cutlings.

The Chinese New Year lasts fifteen days. So during the fifteen days, we always visit our relatives from door to door. At that time, children are the happiest because they can get many red packets form their parents,grandparents, uncles, aunts and so on. The last day of the Chinese New Year is another festival. It names the Lantern Festival.

So the Chinese New Year comes to the end.

春节，中国新年，是我们大家最重要的节日。所有的家庭成员都得到新大吃一顿。同时，大家互相庆祝。大约十二点，一些家长和孩子们放鞭炮，天空是明亮的。我们可以兴奋地看烟花!

在一年的第一个清晨，许多老年人早早起床，贴上颠倒的礼物，或在前门挂上对联。一些房子的窗户上贴上红纸。

中国新年持续十五天。所以在这十五天里，我们总是登门拜访我们的亲戚。那时，孩子们最快乐，因为他们可以从父母、祖父母、叔叔、阿姨那里得到很多红包。春节的最后一天是另一个节日。它把元宵节命名为元宵节。

所以中国新年就要到了。

In the Spring Festival, people will be most happy and happy appearance face their own life.

Lights before the Spring Festival, every family, every family dressed house having a unique style, each have each personality. They put to buy necessities to all over the floor. Bought New Year paintings how stick method, then each have their own style and preferences. Some dish, some backwards, and the crooked stick, each has his strong point. People buy vegetables all fixed, such as the Spring Festival comes, only can be a festival. Families with firecrackers, people wear new clothes, preparing New Year, before the Spring Festival, people go out, if met good friends, always mouth dont forget to say: "the streets!"

People kill pig to kill sheep, busily preparing for the Spring Festival belly-worship.

The Spring Festival, the children will get up early, to mom and dads room, the traditional New Year ceremony. The children of parents said some lucky though, my parents brought out New Years money, let the children happily. Everybody hope this year to luck, a thriving business.

The Spring Festival happy day always short, let a person feel hard to forget. But also is to let a person feel loathe to give up.

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China.In the evening before the Spring Festival,families get together and have a big meal.In many places people like to set off firecrackers.Dumplings are the most traditional food.Children like the festival very much,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes.They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck.People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune.

The color of the street is also much more colorful than usual. See every, all kinds of business signs and unfurled a banner. Store the door hang red lanterns, each glance at let a person heart warm. Blue sky, the hidden colorful balloons in the sun is gorgeous and dazzing. A breeze through, the size of balloon wind dance, as if to greet passers-by nodded again.

Mall happy frolic scene through bright glass doors and Windows, into the eyes of passers-by, make the person involuntarily with the color of people, into one of them. The Spring Festival is the festival of adult, it is the childrens festival, childrens toys, books, stationery counter is unusually busy, the children to the wave and wave, and collect the beloved toys, leaving laughter.

The home of the Spring Festival also different on weekdays, to stick on the door "f" word, have a meal to set off firecrackers and fireworks tonight to, also look at the Spring Festival party. Meals are also much more than usual, mom and dad, uncle aunt, grandma and grandpa together. The food on the table also fengshun fuxing more than ever, serve fish or fowl, delicacies. Eat good food, everybody together chat say ground, chat, drink tea, to talk to.

The Spring Festival is really busy ah, I really want to celebrate the Spring Festival every day. But think about it, usually is also as the Spring Festival.

大街上的颜色也比平时鲜艳多了。只见彩旗飘扬，各色商家标语、条幅迎风招展。商场门口挂着一只只大红灯笼，看一眼就让人心里暖和。湛蓝的天空中，一只只彩色气球在阳光的照耀下艳丽夺目。微风拂过，大小气球迎风起舞，又仿佛在向路人点头致意。

商场里欢快嬉闹的场面透过明亮的玻璃门窗，射入路人的眼里，使人不由自主地随着彩色的人流，汇入其中。春节是大人的节日，更是小朋友们的节日，儿童玩具、书籍、文具柜台更是异常热闹，孩子们来了一拨又一拨，领走心爱的玩具，留下欢声笑语。

春节的家中也不同平日，门上要贴“福”字，吃饭要放鞭炮，晚上要放焰火，还要看春节晚会。吃饭的人也比平日多了，爸爸妈妈、叔叔阿姨、爷爷奶奶都聚在一起。桌上的菜也比以前丰顺多了，鸡鸭鱼肉、山珍海味都有。吃好了饭，大家在一起谈天说地，聊聊天，喝喝茶，说说话。

春节真热闹呀，我真想天天过春节。不过想一想，平常也不比春节差。

You must know that the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn festival in our country. Want to know what the festival custom, just to have a look at my composition.

Everyone set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, firecrackers is made for the Spring Festival because it is over, so every Chinese New Year approaching, every family fireworks, to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival. Set off firecrackers in the ancient world is to keep a monster named "year", "year" oppressed the people, but people set off firecrackers off it. So set off firecrackers to this as a Spring Festival customs.

In addition to set off firecrackers, and stick couplets is a kind of Spring Festival customs. Couplet is made of red paper, it is believed that red can decline demon in addition to magic, so do couplets written on red paper. Each with a couplet, also posted on the door "f" word, "fu" is backwards paste, why? Ha ha, mean to say "fu" (to).

New Year is the Spring Festival custom, New Year is my favorite, because can earn money in New Year!! New Year is in commonly on the first morning, everyone got up early, say hello to each other when they met said message, then each other happy New Year New Years money, this is my most happy moment! Worship the year I went home for his New Years money, flattered.

Spring Festival custom and there are many, such as wear new clothes, eat dumplings together... Now also held some games over the years, you can play, everyone is happy. The custom of Spring Festival so much!

大家肯定都知道春节吧，春节是我国最隆重的节日。想知道这个节日有什么习俗，就来看看我的作文吧。

大家在过春节时都放鞭炮，因为鞭炮是为春节而制作的，所以每逢春节来临，家家户户都燃放烟花爆竹，庆祝春节的到来。放鞭炮在古代是为了赶走一个叫“年”的怪兽，“年”欺压百姓，但人们放鞭炮赶走了它。所以放鞭炮作为一种春节习俗流传至今。

除了放鞭炮，贴对联也是一种春节习俗。对联是用红纸做的，人们相信红色可以降妖除魔，所以用红纸做对联。每一家都贴有对联，门上还贴了“福”字，“福”是倒着贴的，为什么呢?哈哈，意思是表示“福”倒(到)了。

拜年也是春节习俗，我最喜欢拜年了，因为拜年可以挣压岁钱呢!拜年一般在大年初一的早上，大家都起床很早，相遇时互相问好说祝福语，然后互相拜年发压岁钱，这时候是我最高兴的时刻啦!拜完年我回家数着自己的压岁钱，心里美滋滋的。

春节的习俗还有很多，如穿新衣，大家一起吃饺子……现在这几年又举办了一些游戏，可以玩，大家都开心。春节的习俗真多呀!

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Slap, slap.... "the new year, everybody wears new clothes, rush to their hometown, firecrackers, eat family reunion dinner.

In the evening, when we had a reunion dinner and went outside to play the whip, my cousin came over and said, "when we play cards, we sneak up to the roof to explore. I hesitated for a moment, because I had one time in the daytime on the roof to see what it was, and I was scared to sleep in the pants, and even more at night. Then the cousin said to me quietly, "we go up to scare the new moon, we go to the end, and then we call the ghost and run down."

Crescent is my sister, only 7 years old is especially timid. Since she answers, I cant be worse than her.

In a dark and stormy night, we hold the torch, walking slowly, I do not know how to engage the cloth heart has been thinking about some demons and ghosts and horrible things do not forget. Suddenly, a flashlight is my cousin off the moon, shouting: "ghosts, ghosts," my heart has blown up again, my cousin opened the torch to look, the original is a clothes hanger, I say: "dont be surprised a fried is good, I almost had a heart attack," we laughed, forget the terrible thing, fast in the end, next to the things is a terrorist, I prepared to flee. "The ghost" run down quickly and I heard the password after the new moon cry, a sound to her mother cried, I do not know what to do, he must enter "Military".

It was an interesting thing that made me unforgettable.

[我的春节小学生英语作文

The Spring Festival is very important to Chinese people。In the past，people could not often have meat，rice or other delicious food。They could only eat these during the Spring festival。So every year they hoped that the Spring Festival would come soon。Now，although people‘s life is much better，and we can eat the delicious foods everyday。People still like the festival。Because most people can have a long holiday，and we are free to go on a trip or visit our friends or have parties with our family。In the evenings，we can have a big meal in the restaurant or stay at home with family and watch the TV programmes。

I like the Spring Festival very much。How wonderful the Spring Festival is！

春节是中国人民非常重要。在过去，人们不可能经常有肉，大米或其他美味的食物。在春节期间他们只能吃这些。所以每一年他们希望春节很快就会来的。现在，虽然人们的生活要好得多，我们可以每天吃美味的食物。人们仍然喜欢这个节日。因为大多数人可以有很长的假期，我们可以去旅行或访问我们的朋友和我们家有聚会。在晚上，我们可以有一顿大餐在餐馆或呆在家里和我的家人看电视节目。

我非常喜欢春节。春节是多么美妙！

Chinese Lunar New Year,or Spring Festival falls on January 1st according to the lunar calendar,usually around the late January or early February.As the start of spring as well as a new year,it is the most important celebration of the year.Each family get reunited during the New Year.On the Eve,there is a big dinner for the family when each member return to get together.

The biggest New Years party is held on CCTV.Hundreds of people gather there,meanwhile millions of others all over the country were sitting in front of the screen to watch excellent performances for more than four hours continuously.The bell strike twelve at midnight to welcome the coming of the New Year or Spring.People start to set off firecraks and say "Happy New Year" to each other.

As the most important festival in China since ancient times， the Spring Festival is always being excepted by we kids。 Because we dont need to do any homework during this time very year。Its really a precious holiday for us。 And our parents are free from their work too。 We go to our grandparents to get together with them to enjoy the moment when the new year comes。

I will priciate if the holiday to be longer。

作为一直以来中国最重要的节日，春节总是带给我们这些小孩美好的期待。首先，在这春节期间我们不用写作业了。这对我们来说真是弥足珍贵的假日。我们的父母也放假，所以我们能一起去爷爷奶奶家欢度新年，一起享受新年钟声敲响时的快乐。

当然，如果这假期长一点的话我们会更开心的。

The Lunar Happy New Year

The Lunar Happy New Year is a great occasion to the Chinese people. It lasts about the first four days of the year， during which people do not work except for the workers on duty. Students do not go to school， and shops are closed.

Several days before the Happy New Year， people begin to prepare. Farmers kill pigs， sheep， cocks and hens. City dwellers buy meat fish and vegetables. Houses are cleaned; coupletsare posted on the doors. Colourful lanterns are hung at the gate.

On the eve of the Happy New Year， each family has its members gatherd together and eats a family reunion dinner. After the meal they watch TV until the clock strickes twelve. Then every family sets off long strings of small firecrackers and other fire works to welcome the Happy New Year. On the first day of the Happy New Year， almost everyone is dressed in his or her best. When people meet on the way， they say to each other "Happy Happy New Year". Friends and relatives pay Happy New Year calls and gives presents to each other. Children indulge themselves in games.