Spring Festival traditions Seeing that the week after next is The Spring festival, the most important festival in China (or you could say 'in Chinese culture'.) Today I want to introduce some of the Spring Festival traditions. Usually, people start preparing one or two weeks before the Spring Festival (This ordering is a bit more natural and requires fewer commas). First, before the Spring Festival, we have a Spring cleaning. We clean all the corners of the room (prefer the present simple tense for general actions). It represents us sweeping away all the bad luck of the year. We can use the brand new appearance to welcome the new year. Second, after cleaning, we do Spring Festival shopping. Normally, we will buy a lot of different daily goods, including different kinds of food, cooking utensils or new clothes. The new year is the best excuse for us to buy something that we like but we were too stingy to spend money. We usually buy something red, because red is a symbol of good fortune, and red creates a happy atmosphere. Third, a Family reunion dinner is an essential custom on New Year's Eve. We usually enjoy a big feast on that day. Fish and dumplings are musts. They all have good implied meaning. Because many people work in the big cities rather than in their hometown, some only get to have one family reunion during a whole year. That's why it becomes very important for every family to get together. Although we have many customs of Spring festival, in the age of rapid change, many traditions have changed as well. But something would not change is the belief in a wonderful future.