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Ni hao!

Today is the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival marks the beginning of the New Year. In this day, Chinese people also looking forward to a new round of reunion with their families.

So today, we are going to introduce you to the one of the traditional Chinese festival.

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar.

This day's important activity is watching lanterns. Throughout the Han Dynasty , Buddhism flourished in China. One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddha's body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day. Later, the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of China.

Untill today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the country. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited.

Also in this day, people will eat yuanxiao (元宵 yuán xiāo jié), or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the «Yuanxiao Festival» (元宵节 yuán xiāo jié). Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan (汤圆 tāng yuán). It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with «tuanyuan» （团圆 tuán yuán）, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.

The Lantern Festival is celebrated every year on January 15th of the lunar calendar, right after the Spring Festival and traditionally, the Lantern Festival is a part of the Spring Festival.

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Hey guys! 好久不见！

ps. In Chinese, 好久不见 (hǎojiǔ bùjiàn) means long time no see.

One of the most important holidays 春节 (chūnjié Spring Festival) almost finished in China, so after the longest holidays, people are returning to work.

But Spring Festival it’s only one of the important traditional festival in China. Let’s see what actually Four Traditional Chinese Festivals include!

中国四大传统节日（zhōngguó sìdà chuántǒng jiérì）—— Four Traditional Chinese Festivals

Four Traditional Chinese Festivals include : Spring Festival (春节 chūnjié )、Tomb-Sweeping Day (qīngmíngjié)、Dragon Boar Festival (端午节 duānwǔjié) and Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节 zhōngqiūjié）。

It is worth noting, what each traditional festival has its own activities, such as lantern shows, dragon boat racing, rituals of worship etc.

we'll talk more about each of them later.

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大家哈皮牛耶儿！

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, begins today in China!

So let’s talk a bit about the most important Chinese holiday - Spring festival ! （春节 chūn jié）

For Chinese people, Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China, that is, the Lunar New Year, the first day of January. On this day, Chinese people all over the world will celebrate the festival together, also on this day, Chinese people have a family reunion, make dumplings, paste Spring Festival couplets, watch various performances, and celebrate the new year together.

And off course, Spring festival is the longest holiday for Chinese people!

对中国人来说，春节是中国最重要的传统节日，也就是农历的新年，即农历一月初一。在这一天，全世界的中国人都会一起庆祝这个节日。这一天我们会全家人团圆在一起，包饺子，贴春联，观看各种表演，一起庆祝新的一年的到来。

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Hi everyone!

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve or Lunar New Year's Eve!

So let’s talk a bit about 除夕 chúxī !

The Origin of ‘Chu xi’

New year's Eve is the last day of the lunar year.

"Chu" means “wipe off", and "Xi" means "night". Therefore, “Chu xi" is the last night of the Lunar New Year's Eve.

After new year's Eve, the next day is the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, Chinese people usually don't sleep, waiting for the arrival of the new year.

As China is a multi-ethnic country with large territory and large population, people in different places have different ways to celebrate the Spring Festival on New Year's Eve.

But most people will worship their ancestors, eat new year's Eve dinner, give their children lucky money, set off firecrackers, watch the Spring Festival Gala, and welcome the new year together.

“除夕”的由来

除夕是农历年的最后一天。“除”是“去除”的意思，“夕”指“晚上”。因此，“除夕”就是岁除的最后一个晚上。过了除夕，第二天就是春节。

在除夕夜，中国人通常不睡觉，等着迎接新的一年的到来。由于中国是一个多民族国家，国土面积大，人口多，因此，不同地方的人们过除夕庆祝春节的方式也有所不同。但是大多数人都会祭祖，吃年夜饭，长辈给孩子们压岁钱，放鞭炮，看春节晚会，一起迎接新年的到来。

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