【正文】 coat of red are often decorated with paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and new clothing, shoes, and receiving a haircut also symbolize a fresh many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and altars that were adorned with decorations from the previous year are also taken down and burned a week before the new year starts, and replaced with new (and Buddhists to a lesser extent)will also “send gods”(送神), an example would be burning a paper effigy of Zao Jun the Kitchen God, the recorder of family is done so that the Kitchen God can report to the Jade Emperor of the family household39。s transgressions and good often offer sweet foods(such as candy)in order to “bribe” the deities into reporting good things about the biggest event of any Chinese New Year39。s Eve is the dinner every family will dish consisting of fish will appear on the tables of Chinese is for display for the New Year39。s Eve meal is parable to Christmas dinner in the northern China, it is customary to make dumplings(jiaozi 餃子)after dinner and have it around symbolize wealth because their shape is like a Chinese contrast, in the South, it is customary to make a new year cake(Niangao, 年糕)after dinner and send pieces of it as gifts to relatives and friends in the ing days of the new literally means increasingly prosperous year in year the dinner, some families go to local temples, hours before the new year begins to pray for a prosperous new year by lighting the first incense of the year。however in modern practice, many households hold parties and even hold a countdown to the new lunar in the 1980s, the CCTV New Year39。s Gala was broadcast four hours before the start of the New ：First day 初一The first day is for the weling of the deities of the heavens and earth, officially beginning at people, especially Buddhists, abstain from meat consumption on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure longevity for consider lighting fires and using knives to be bad luck on New Year39。s Day, so all food to be consumed is cooked the day Buddhists, the first day is also the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva(better known as the more familiar Budai Luohan), the also abstain from killing importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time when families visit the oldest and most senior members of their extended family, usually their parents, grandparents or families may invite a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the of the family who are married also give red packets containing cash to junior members of the family, mostly children and fireworks and firecrackers are traditionally very popular, some regions have banned them due to concerns over fire hazards, which have resulted in increased number of fires around New Years and challenged municipal fire departments39。 work this reason, various city governments(., Hong Kong, and Beijing, for a number of years)issued bans over fireworks and firecrackers in certain premises of the a substitute, largescale fireworks have been launched by governments in cities like Hong Kong to offer citizens the ：Second day 初二The second day of the Chinese New Year is for married daughters to visit their birth , daughters who have been married may not have the opportunity to visit their birth families the second day, the Chinese pray to their ancestors as well as to all the are extra kind to dogs and feed them well as it is believed that the second day is the birthday of all people of the Cantonese dialect group will hold a 39。Hoi Nin39。 prayer to start their business on the 2nd day of Chinese New prayer is done to pray that they will be blessed with good luck and prosperity in their business for the ：Third and fourth days 初三The third and fourth day of the Chinese New Year are generally accepted as inappropriate days to visit relatives and friends due to the following schools of may subscribe to one or both )It is known as “ch236。 kǒu”(赤口), meaning that it is easy to get into is suggested that the cause could be the fried food and visiting during the first two days of the New Year celebration.[citation needed]2)Families who had an immediate kin deceased in the past 3 years will not go housevisiting as a form of respect to the dead, but people may visit them on this people then conclude that it is inauspicious to do any house visiting at third day of the New Year is allocated to gravevisiting ：Fifth day 初五In northern China, people eat jiǎo zi(simplified Chinese: 餃子。traditional Chinese: 餃子), or dumplings on the morning of Po Wu(破五).This is also the birthday of the Chinese god of Taiwan, businesses traditionally reopen on this day, acpanied by ：Seventh day 初七The seventh day, traditionally known as renri 人日, the mon man39。s birthday, the day when everyone grows one year is the day when tossed raw fish salad, yusheng, is is a custom primarily among the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and get together to toss the colourful salad and make wishes for continued wealth and many Chinese Buddhists, this is another day to avoid meat, the seventh day memorating the birth of Sakra Devanam ：Eighth day 初八Another family dinner to celebrate the eve of the birth of the Jade , everybody should be back to work by the 8th of government agencies and business will stop celebrating by the eighth ：Ninth day 初九The ninth day of the New Year is a day for Chinese to offer prayers to the Jade Emperor of Heaven(天宮)in the Taoist ninth day is traditionally the birthday of the Jade day is especially important to midnight of the eighth day of the new year, Hokkiens will offer thanks giving prayers to the Emperor of will include sugarcane as it was the sugarcane that had protected the Hokkiens from certain extermination generations , tea, fruit, vegetarian food or roast pig, and paper gold is served as a customary protocol for paying re