happy new year

The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the most important traditional festival in China. It is a time for celebrating with family and friends.  I want to wish everyone"[i] [/i][color=#ff0000][i]happy new year"[/i] . [image]http://www.chinahighlights.com/Files/photo/newyear3.jpg[/image][/color]

[image]http://www.chunjie.net.cn/image/ADpic003.gif[/image]The holiday season is coming " happy new year" to all here. The Chinese now are busily preparing for the important traditional festival. [size=2][font=arial]Traditionally, the Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival in the following ways:  [/font][/size] [size=2][font=arial]   [/font][/size][size=2][font=arial] [u]Spring Decorating[/u]: People hang flower-decorated red lanterns in front of their houses. Office buildings and stores are also decorated with red lanterns. Red couplets-red posters with black Chinese calligraphy, colored New Year paintings are posted on the doors of people’s houses. They symbolize happiness, prosperity and good luck in the New Year.   .[u]New Year’s Feast[/u]: Spring Festival is a time for family reunion. The New Year’s Feast is “a must” banquet with all the family members getting together. People from north and south have different sayings about the food they eat on this special day. Southern Chinese eat “niangao” (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher every year”. In northern China, a traditional dish for the feast is” Jiaozi” or dumplings shaped like a crescent moon.   [u]Lighting Firecrackers[/u]: Lighting Firecrackers used to be one of the most important customs in the Spring Festival celebration. But concerning the danger and the negative noises that lighting firecrackers may bring the government has banned this practice in many major cities. But people in small towns and rural areas still hold to this traditional celebration. Right as the clock strike 12 o’clock midnight of New Year’s Eve, cities and towns are lit up with the glitter from fireworks, and the sound can be deafening. Families stay up for this joyful moment and kids with firecrackers in one hand and a lighter in another cheerfully light their happiness in this especial occasion, even though they plug their ears.   [u]Luck Money[/u]: It is the money given to kids from their parents and grandparents as New Year gift. The money is believed to bring good luck, ward off monsters; hence the name” lucky money”. Parents and grandparents first put money in small, especially made red envelope and give to their kids after the New Year’s Feast. It is one of the kids’ favorite things in Spring Festival.     [u]New Year Greetings[center][image]http://www.chunjie.net.cn/rite/NYNpic/3s.gif[/image][/center][/u] On the first day of the new year, everybody wears new clothes and greets relatives and friends with bows and Gongxi( congratulations), wishing each other good luck, happiness during the new year.       [center] [/center][/font][/size]

[color=#ff6600][size=7][i]HAPPY NEW YEAR[/i][/size] [/color]   [color=#ff6600]  i am missing my lucky money now. [/color]

[align=center]The Chinese New Year is comming. i can see the joy and fun everythere in China.The Chinese New Year otherwise called Spring Festival is the most important festival in China and there is a very interesting legend of begining that festival. In ancient time, a demon called" nian" would plagued people once a year in the winter. It devoured people, animals and plants. one day, people gethered to discuss how to deal with Nian and somebody came up that Nian was afraid of noises, red color and flames so they set off firecrackers, put red posters on door of theri home and beat drum and gong. the idea worked and Nian ran away. since ever the tradition of celebration spring festival began.[/align]It is only a legend and practical reason for celebrating the festival is that it is the time between Autumn harvest and spring planting. It is the time for rest after one year's toil . [align=center][image]http://image2.sina.com.cn/dy/c/2006-01-26/16f44f38a65eed4b7eb634cd5ae1505b.jpg[/image][/align]