• 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 ".
• Some lanterns have puzzles on them, called lantern
riddles（灯谜）, the one who gets the answer could receive small presents and be happy for his intelligence.
元宵节的传统美食就是元宵啦。 元宵的形状就像是天空中的满月。 这种甜品，尤其受儿童的欢迎。
• The traditional food for Lantern Festival is glutinous rice ball（元宵）. The glutinous rice ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children.
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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” .
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Customs
Do 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 Have3New Year’s Eve dinner 吃年夜饭
During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns（灯笼） and children light their own small lanterns for som5 e fun. The biggest and most beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern, which looks like a flying dragon, held by several young guys. One with a ball in hand leads the dragon to
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•Spring Festival
• The 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 Year's Eve and the first month of the new year.
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.