The Spring Festival
First thing first, we don’t celebrate Christmas. The Spring Festival is the biggest festival here. Due to the Lunar Calendar, it’s a bit later than January 1. It usually comes in January (20 or later) and February. We Chinese start preparing for the festival days before it. We decorate everything with red! You can see red from the doors to the dining tables. The whole street is in red, too. The first big day during the festival is called Chu Xi. It is like Christmas Eve, but not exactly like it. On that day, we have a big dinner together with the family. Besides that, there’s a special tradition too. On that evening, adults give children red envelopes ? to wish them safe whole year long. They have money inside! Children put the red envelopes under their pillows during this night. Then, after the dinner, we get together to watch a TV show especially for Chu Xi. (Of course, it’s not really an old tradition) We stay up all night waiting for the new year. It’s really exciting. Then during the following days, we go and visit our relatives and have more meals, receive more red envelopes… The 15th day after Chu Xi, is called the Lantern Festival. On that day, we eat dumplings and watch lanterns. These are the traditions we cannot miss! The 1st image is the Spring Festival, the 2nd represents this year’s animal (it’s a tradition too, there are twelve animals in total and this year it rabbit ?) the 3rd one is a red envelope
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