Spring Festival Holiday Celebration
Please note that JADEVER Spring Festival
Holiday will begin from Jan. 15th to Jan. 29th.
The Spring Festival is the most
important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get
together, just like Christmas in the West.
All people living away from home go
back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a
month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance
bus stations are crowded with home returnees.
Store owners are busy as everybody
goes out to purchase necessities for the New Year. Materials not only include
edible oil, rice, flour, chicken, duck, fish and meat, but also fruit, candies
and kinds of nuts. What's more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for
the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all
on the list of purchasing.
Before the New Year comes, the
people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as
their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.
Then people begin decorating their
clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door
panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese
calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house
owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also,
pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward
off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.
People attach great importance to
Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. After
the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In
recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television
Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and
abroad.
Waking up on New Year, everybody
dresses up. They extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get
money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper.
Chinese Spring Festival is the
festival of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. And JADEVER wishes
everyone will have a good holiday.