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The Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year. It is the most important festival in China. It usually comes in January or February. Before the Spring Festival, People often clean their houses, buy couplets (对联) and new clothes to make everything new and fresh.

Every year on New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival Gala with the whole family has become the first choice for most families. It is also a part of the “Spring Festival” for many people. Families sit around the TV and enjoy the festival together. People often have a big dinner that night. Instead of going to the restaurant for New Year's Eve dinner, some people choose to order online and get home service. People can have a warm New Year's Eve dinner at home. During the Spring Festival, people often go to visit their friends to wish them a happy Spring Festival. Children often get lucky money. As time goes on, more and more people use WeChat to greet each other.

As Chinese people live and work all over the world, the Spring Festival of China becomes a favourite festival of many countries and people in the world.

Favourite Festival

We made a survey in September in our school. We wanted to find out which Chinese festival is the most popular.

More than 1000 pupils voted (投票) for it. 450 pupils chose (选择) Chinese New Year as their favourite festival. They thought it was a cheerful and important festival as relatives and friends got together. Mid-Autumn Festival was the second and the Dragon Boat Festival stood at the third place.

Chinese New Year was the most popular festival. People loved their tradition (传统) festival and enjoyed celebrating them.

The Story of Nian

A long time ago there was a monster (怪物) in China. This Monster was very big. It was called “Nian” and it came out every year at the beginning of spring. Nian ran after the people in the village. It liked to eat children best. Every year people tried to do something. But the monster didn’t go away.

The night before the next New Year, the monster came again. Suddenly the monster heard a big BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! The monster was afraid of the noise. It stopped. It saw fire. Then it saw people wearing red clothes. The monster didn’t like noise, and It didn’t like fire. So it ran away.

The next day was Chinese New Year. The people Came out of their houses. They looked around. They saw lots of red things. “The monster is afraid of big noise and red things!” the people said. People were very happy and said, “Every year we will have red clothes. Then the monster won’t come again.” So every New Year’s Eve, people all put on new hats and New clothes and light firecrackers (鞭炮). And they went to see their families and friends.

Chinese New Year is the Spring Festival in China. It’s a long festival in China. There are ____ days during the festival. The Chinese New Year begins on the ____ day of the first lunar month. On Chinese New Year Eve (前夕), people have a big dinner together. ____ is the main course at dinner. After dinner children can get lucky money from their parents and grandparents. From New Year’s Day, people visit friends and relatives (亲戚). Sometimes there is a lion or dragon____ on the street. Some families buy paper cuts (剪纸) and put them on the window. People think that the colour ____ will bring them good luck in the coming year.