the Spring Festival

The spring festival ,the lunar New Year, is the most important traditional national festival in China. It is called nian(年) in Chinese. As originally written, the Chinese character nian means "harvest". The spring festival always falls sometime before or after lichun(立春,the beginning of Spring).

The celebration of the spring festival is more or less similar across the country. People set off firecrackers , which enliven the festival and bring great joy to prople , especially to children. 

Chunlian(春联)are spring couplets posted on gates during the spring festival. 

During the spring festival the Chinese people eat a lot of good food, In the north China the most popular food is dumplings.