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val starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New customs acpany the Spring are still followed today, but others have the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job39。s more, various decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children as well as gifts for the elderly, friends and relatives, are all on the list of the New Year es, the people pletely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red content varies from house owners39。s more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front papercuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the attach great importance to Spring Festival that time, all family members eat dinner meal is more luxurious than such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively “ji”, “yu” and “doufu,” mean auspiciousness, abundance and the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station(CCTV)is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year up on New Year, everybody dresses they extend greetings to their each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think “jiaozi” in sound means “bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new”.Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient people eat them and wish for money and Chinese eat niangao(New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour)on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means “higher and higher, one year after another.” The first five days afte