CHINAS SPRING FESTIVAL

　　Ⅰ Essentials of Spring Festival
　　1 Spring Festival:China's Christmas
　　2 Legends of the New Year
　　3 Days of the Spring Festival
　　Ⅱ Traditions of Spring Festival
　　1 Offering Sacrifices to the Kitchen God
　　2 The Dust Sweeping Days
　　3 Spring Festival Decorations:Door Couplets,Fu Posters,and Paper Cuttings
　　4 Door Gods and New Year's Pictures
　　5 Firecrackers
　　6 Staying Up All Night
　　7 Gift Money
　　8 Paying New Year's Calls
　　9 Roaming the Temple Fairs
　　10 Welcoming the God of Wealth
　　11 Sending off the Hungry Ghost
　　12 The Lantern Festival
　　Ⅲ Food of the Spring Festival

　　As Christmas is to Westerners．so is Spring Festival to theChinese Originally called Yuandan，Spring Fcstival is theoldest and grandest of alI Chinese li：stivals With Yuan meaning“beginning”and dan“morning”，Yuandan symbolizes thebreaking of a new dawn on thc first morning of the Ncw Yearand represents the end of winter and hope ror a good springBidding~arewell to the old and ringing in the new is a recurrenttheme in the traditions associated wilh the Spring Festival.