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Chinese traditional festivals 张其凤Spring FestivalThe Spring Festival, one of the most important ancient traditional festivals, as well as Chinese unique festival at the lunar calendar, is also called Chinese New Year. Since the Shun period（21 century BC), the Spring Festival custom has been extended till now. The Spring Festival generally refers to the New Years Eve and the first month of the new year.?There are a lot of legends about Spring Festival. The most famous one is “the year beast” fable. “The year beast” cruel terrible wild animal. In ancient times, there are monsters called years “ that appear to hurt people and animals at regular time. Once, year goes out for wounding again, but meets a old man who wears red clothes and lights bamboos. Since then, people called this day the Spring Festival . CustomsDo shopping for the Spring Festival 办年货Spring cleaning 扫尘Paste Spring Festival Couplets，paper-cuts for window decoration, New Year painting 贴春联、窗花、年画Staying-up守岁light firecrackers放爆竹Pay New Year’s call拜年Have New Year’s Eve dinner吃年夜饭 In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI” means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings. The Lantern Festival（元宵节） The lunar January (农历正月）is the first month of a year and the 15th day is the first day of full moon. The Lantern Festival can date back to Qin dynasty(221-206BC). It’s said that the Han emperor set up the Lantern Festival in order to commemorate “Ping Lu” . During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns（灯笼） and children light their own small lanterns for some fun. The biggest and most beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern, which looks like a flying dragon, h