春节习俗
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the "Lunar New Year" by English speakers. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as chú xī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".
Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.
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Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans (Seollal), Tibetans and Bhutanese (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnamese (Tết), and formerly the Japanese before 1873 (Oshogatsu). Outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Chinese New Year is also celebrated in countries with significant Han Chinese populations, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. In countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post, Canada Post, and the US Postal Service issues New Year's themed stamps.
Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans the house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families. Food will include such items as pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet delicacies. The family will end the night with firecrackers. Early the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is a great way to reconcile forgetting all grudges, and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.
Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of Huangdi. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2009 "Chinese Year" 4707, 4706, or 4646.
我眼中的春节
盼啊，盼啊，春节终于来临了，伴随着时钟的敲响，我们又迎来了美好的传统佳节-春节。我满怀激动地呼喊着：“新年到了!新年到了!”啊!新年多么美好啊!我兴奋地在家中来回地跑着，抑制不住自己喜悦的心情。
当我跑到阳台边时，突然，烟花飞上天空，在一瞬间，炸开了，天上礼花朵朵。有的像银色的流星，有的像五光十色的花儿，有的像橙色的大衣，还有的像金色的太阳，把大地照得如同白昼一样。美不胜收!
过年前，家家户户门前张灯结彩，我家也不例外。一大早，爸爸妈妈就忙得不可开交，。只见妈妈利索地擦洗着桌椅、门窗、地板，屋子的里里外外都被妈妈擦洗得闪闪发光，最值得惊奇的是玻璃擦得明晃晃的，看上去像没有隔着玻璃似的。再看看爸爸，小心翼翼地用透明胶布把春联贴在大门的墙上，不偏左不偏右，更不偏斜，可不，爸爸贴春联的技术可是一流的。站在旁边的我，看着爸爸妈妈的举动都傻了眼。不一会儿，家里就焕然一新。
大年三十的晚上，家家户户都要吃年饭，代表岁岁团圆。家人的团聚往往令家里的长辈们在精神上得到安慰与满足，老人家眼看儿孙满堂，一家大小共叙天伦，过去的关怀与抚养子女所付出的心血总算没有白费，这是何等的幸福。而年轻一辈，也正可以借此机会向父母的养育之恩表达感激之情。吃完年饭，一家人聚在一起，庆祝新一年的到来。大年三十的晚上更是火树银花不夜天，家家灯火通明，处处礼花朵朵，鞭炮声声。大家一起守岁，告别如水似已逝去的岁月，憧憬对新一年的希望。在大年三十的晚上还要放一挂鞭，叫做“出行”，代表踏上一年的脚步。
初一，初二各家就要走访亲戚，四处问好，拜年，串门子。晚辈起床后，要先向长辈拜年，祝福长辈健康长寿，万事如意。长辈受拜以后，要将事先准备好的“压岁钱”分给晚辈，代表岁岁平安。拜年也是亲戚朋友之间互相表达祝愿的一种方式。在初一的早晨还要放一挂鞭，这是挂开门炮，是个开门爆竹，为了祈求竹报平安，图个吉利，代表开门红。
啊，春节!美好的春节，快乐的春节，人人喜爱的春节，我眼中的春节，我爱你啊!你真的—很精彩!