Enjoy chinese new year

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.
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, and Macau, Chinese
New Year is also celebrated in countries with
significant Han Chinese populations, such as
Singapore, Taiwan, 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 issue 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.