Spring Festival

By Min Jiao
January 15, 2012

The first meeting is from International Club in Sutton Hall, Southwestern College at 7pm Jan.15 this semester. We discuss about how to celebrate Spring Festival in here.

Spring Festival also called Chinese New Year. It is the most important of the traditional Chines holiday like American celebrate Christmas Day.

Almost tradition Chinese festival is according to the traditional Chinese calendar include Spring Festival. Spring Festival is January 1 according to the traditional Chinese calendar. So we celebrated different time in every year almost mid-February. This year's Spring Festival on February 10.

During Spring Festival all Chinese Store will closed 7 days because all Chinese people need to celebrate this festival with their families. Eve Spring Festival, all Chinese family need to eat together. In that day, every family will make big meal at night.

Before family start big meals they need to paste antithetical couplet on the door that means the antithetical couplet bring luck next years. People must need to eat dumplings during the big meal because the dumplings is like ancient Chinese money is called gold ingots that means you will make more money next years. After dinner, families always watch the Spring Festival television show until 12pm. Then people like to shoot off fireworks, it looks so beautiful.

Actually, Children really like to celebrate Spring Festival because elder need to give money to children. It is traditional Chinese custom. And from Jan.2 to Jan.7 people always pay a visit to relatives and present gifts to them.

Chinese students and I didn’t celebrate Spring Festival with family when we come here because don’t have break for Spring Festival so we need go to classes. All students like to celebrate together on that day like family.

International Club makes plan to celebrate Spring Festival with campus’ students this semester. We will make some Chinese food and invite host family this year.