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,Happy New Year,Happy new year!,Happy new year!,Happy new year!,The Spring Festival,春节chn ji The Spring Festival,It falls on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month and the celebration lasts from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month up to the 15th of the first lunar month next year.,What is the longest and most important festival in China?,What do you do in the Spring Festival?,春节习俗 Customs of the Spring Festival,The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the evolvement of thousands of years, a series of customs are spreading far and wide.,we clean our houses and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red. 我们打扫房子的卫生，将霉运扫走，然后我们将门和窗户刷成红色,扫尘 Sweeping the Dust,扫尘 Sweeping the Dust,“Dust” is homophonic(同音的） with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell（告别） to the old year and usher（迎接） in the new.,春联 spring festival couplets,贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets,“The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical（对立的） phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door . The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival. In the past , the Chinese usually wrote their own spring couplet with a brush or asked others to do for them, while nowadays, it is common for people to buy the printed spring couplet in the market.,When fu(福) comes to town,We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. 我们常常用剪纸将门和窗户装饰一下。,剪纸 paper-cuts,the dinner on New Years Eve 年夜饭,family reunion dinner 团圆饭,吃饺子 Having Jiaozi,On New Years Eve, the whole family will sit together to make jiaozi and celebrate the Spring Festival. The shape of jiaozi is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure. The tradition of having jiaozi is very important during the Spring Festival. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having jiaozi.,看春晚 The CCTV New Years Gala,看春节联欢晚会 The CCTV New Years Gala,The New Years Gala is a variety show held by China Central Television (CCTV) since 1983. For every year since then at the turn of the Lunar New Year, the program begins at 8:00PM and lasts five or six hours. It brings laughter to billions of people, creates many popular words and produces lots of TV phenomena meriting attention. For over twenty years, its value has gone far beyond a variety show. It is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. Many Chinese would like to watch the gala while having the dinner on New Years Eve.,烟花 firework,Firecrackers 鞭炮,set off fireworks / firecrackers,燃放烟花爆竹,New Years visit,On New Years Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends. 在新年那天，我们穿上新衣服回家或到朋友家拜年。,gift money,Children Getting money in red envelopes from their parents and relatives,How do you spend your gift money?,拜年和压岁钱 New Years Visit and Gift Money,On the first day of the Chinese lunar year, everybody puts on their best clothes and pays ceremonial calls on their relatives and friends, wishing them all the luck in the coming year. Juniors will greet seniors, wishing them health and longevity, while seniors will give juniors some gift money as a wish for their safety in the coming year. When friends meet, they will wish each other happiness and prosperity with a big smile. With the development of the new technology, there is a change on the way of giving New Years greetings. In recent year, it is common to send New Years greetings by such modern means of communication as telephones, emails and text messages.,Traditional Festival Greetings:,May All Your Wishes Come True Everything Goes Well,Wishing You Prosperity,Promoting To A Higher Position,guess,Traditional Festival Greetings:,金玉满堂 Treasures Fill The Home 生意兴隆 Business Flourishes 岁岁平安 Peace All Year Round 恭喜发财 Wishing You Prosperity 和气生财 Harmony Brings Wealth 心想事成 May All Your Wishes Come True 吉祥如意 Everything Goes Well 国泰平安 The Country Flourishes And People Live In Peace 一帆风顺 Wishing You Every Success 步步高升 Promoting To A Higher Position 出入平安 Safe Trip Wherever You Go,At first ,the preparing work: Claean the house go to the flower markets. do Spring Festival shopping Paste Spring Couplets Cook the meals,Secondly, eat family reunion dinner; Light all the lamps Set off fireworks and firecracks Start eating family re