The spring festival in china~~~O(∩_∩)O ~~happy new year!!! Hello,everybody else! I haven't drop in there for ages...And i started my long vacation...Today,i'd like to show the very day in my country----"the spring festival" Have u heard of it? The spring festival is the biggest day in the whole year---Like the "christmas" in US. The festival is derived from a old tale:In the ancient age,there is a horrible monster in china,the monster eat people, rape the beauty in the country,he is the nightmare for everybody. In order to move out the monster, everyone in the country think up to many ideas but they failed----the monster has the extraordinary magic----maybe he can be the strongest opposite to Voldemort,ahha... One day,a villager told everyone what the cure to kill the monster is 'fire' , the monster fears fire and that is why he appeared in the night only.Therefore, every family in china ignite a fire to drive the monster away and then killed him. In order to celebrate the victory,chinese people ruled the first day in a year is "The spring festival" to remenber it. At the same time,the custom is reserved to today. In mordern life,we are not igniting fire any more,but we keeped the habit that saty with all the family to have a big dinner,contact with each other. The essential element is watching TV---"the spring festival party" with family. About food,a fish,dumpling,braised pork,Tang Yuan,noodles,hot pot and rice cake is necessary. The fish meant we have a completely life for a year from start to finish,so the fish must be completely and is not allowed to cut strand. dumpling means safety and our dream will come true,because dumpling is look like the moon,chinese people expected wishes on moon so they pack the best wishes and dream into dumpling.Tangyuan means our family members will be safety and our family will united together for the next year,and it's also a yummy desert...Noodles means we will live long and will be healthy in the next year sinece noodles are very long like loop,and it denote our lifespan will like the noodle as long as it can.And signs of hot pot is similar with those in the front. another important custom---squibbing firecrackes. Every family will squibbing firecrackes at 12:00am in the first day of the new year,it's to drive away the monster i mentioned at the begining. And it's to move out the old and invited the new in the next year. from the very next to the 10th day,people will visit their relatives who far away from them to keep in touch. So happy new year