My opinions about one of articles of ' The Economist' I can't believe this kind of article is from ' The Economist‘ Let me ask you some questions. How much do you about Chinese New Year? How much do you know about ' chunwan'? How much do you know about China and Chinese nowadays? You don't know? I can tell you. Chinese New Year is similar to the Christmas in western countries except many traditions. People in that holiday will get together with their families to celebrate it and buy many kinds of gifts to each other Chunwan is a gala show held by CCTV in the Chinese New Year's Eve. To be precise, it is a TV variety show without any political elements. People can choose watch it or not.No one force you to do that.Actually ,many young Chinese ,like me,don't watch it because some of programs are a little boring in recent year. Every year after chunwan, many people will complain about it not only on the Internet but in conversations. However, the reason why many people still watch it is that watching chunwan is a tradition for Chinese . A tradition likes western people having dinner with their families in Christmas Eve. It is the time to accompany their family and talk to them. Nowadays, it can't deny that the Chinese Communist Party is the party in power. However, it doesn't mean the Chinese Communist Party is the god of China. Chinese people are the masters of their country. Every year, people can attend the National People's Congress to vote to decide the important social systems and stuffs; the represents from different parities will join Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to negotiate with each other about the state policies. Chinese of today are not those people during the Maoist era any more . We won't subject to any mind-numbing propaganda! We have our own opinions about our country. It can't deny there are many problems in China nowadays, like the issue of human rights, the pollution and so on.As we know the People's Republic of China only has half of century's history since 1949; many laws and institutions are not impeccable and rational. However, Chinese government and people are trying to improve them. Some western developed countries shouldn't only blame the problems of China and require China to take responsibilities of national stuffs followed the standard of a developed country！ Anyway, I feel so disappointed about this article. I hope ' The Economist' should write more truths of other countries, not this kind of fake to distort the truths and mislead readers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some traditions in Spring festival (Chinese New Year) (2) In the article 'Some traditions in Spring festival (Chinese New Year) (2)' , I said that ' the customs on Spring Festival's Eve in different districts are almost the same'. In Taiwan, people will put a firepan under the table when have dinner and the daughters-in-law will stay up late in the New Year's Eve, the later, the better (It is said that the elders will enjoy longevity by this way). In the day of Spring Festival, people will visit their neighbor, friends and relatives to say ' happy new year' and chat with each other for a while. Young kids will get the money in the red pockets from adults（It is said that kids will be happy and healthy if they get those money) . People also will eat delicious dumplings, END

Some traditions in the Spring Festival( Chinese New Year) (1) Today is the most significant festival in China---Spring Festival. It is the first day of the year according to the lunar calendar. This is the reason why many people can't know the precise time of it because people around the world use the solar calendar in their daily life. This year is the Year of the Monkey. Why? As we all known, there are 12 kinds of zodiac, which were sorted l in a old Chinese myths. The sequence of the zodiac is: rat, ox tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat,monkey, rooster, dog, pig. The date of people's birthday decides what zodiac are they. It is similar to the constellation of each people. However, instead of being decided by the date of solar calendar, the zodiacs of each people depend on the date of lunar calendar. For instance, I was born in November, 7th, 1996. My zodiac is rat. For many people,whose zodiac is monkey, this year is their big year （本命年）.The people who were born in the year of the same animal should wear red clothing or at least a waist-belt so as to keep bad luck away. People would steam bread (man tou) 2 days before Chinese Spring Festival in order to pray the future will be flourishing. (there is a idiom in China: 蒸蒸日上, which can explain that reason). In addition, in countryside, people also offer sacrifice ( food like fruit, vegetable and some well-cooked meat) to worship ancestors. In the Spring festival Even, people would gather together with their friends and family to have a rich dinner. What people also do is setting off the firework and the firecracker. The reason why people do that is that a myths inspire people to do that. The myths is that: long long ago in China, a monster called ' 年' often appeared and ate lots of people in the Spring Festival Even. In order to frightened the monster away, people burnt bamboos to make big explosive sound and glaring fire light. That was the origin of firework and firecracker. The customs on Spring Festival's Eve in different districts are almost the same; while in some places, the customs are quite special, such as in Suzhou, Beijing and Taiwan. When staying up late in Suzhou, people always wait for the bell ring from the Han shan Temple, which is a sign of the coming year; Beijing people hold '踩岁 'activity by stepping on the sesame straw paved in the courtyard. NOT FINISHED YET, TO BE CONTINUE!!!