What would you do in Spring Festival
　　The Spring Festival like Christmas Day in the western countries, is the most important festival in China. Children like it very much because they can have delicious things to eat, pretty clothes to wear and many nice things to play with. When Spring Festival comes, people away from their hometowns usually come back and spend it with their families. People mainly do two things during the festival. One is eating, and the other is playing. They usually buy different kinds of food and make different kinds of delicious dishes, and play in different ways.
　　In the spirit of setting things straight, all account books should be balanced, debts paid off, and houses cleaned before New Year’s Day. Then houses, businesses, and streets are decked and draped with banners, flowers, and scrolls of vivid red, a traditionally lucky and demon-dispelling hue. People exchange red-wrapped gifts, most commonly the hong bao-cash enclosed in a compact red paper packet-and offer their friends propitious edibles such as red dates (whose Chinese name, hong zao, sounds like the words for “prosperity comes soon”) and tangerines ( whose Cantonese pronunciation, kat, sounds like that of the word for “l(fā)ucky”).
　　春節(jié)習(xí)俗
　　春節(jié)如西方的圣誕節(jié),是中國盛大的節(jié)日.孩子們非常喜歡春節(jié)的到來,因?yàn)槊糠甏汗?jié),孩子們就會有美味的佳肴,漂亮的衣服,和心儀的玩具.春節(jié)期間,無論身在何方的人們都會回到“老家”同家人度過.在這種喜慶的日子里,人們往往做兩件事,一是吃好,二是玩好.人們采購各種各樣的食物,做著各式各樣的美味,用不同方式盡情娛樂.
　　人們清理房子,結(jié)清上年的債務(wù),為了讓所有的事情步入正軌,來迎接新的一年.房屋、商店、街道掛上了橫幅、種上了鮮花、飄擺著生氣勃勃的紅色彩帶,（紅色在中國代表一種喜運(yùn)與除魔的顏色.人們互送紅色包裹的禮物,最普通的是“紅包”（將錢裝在紅色紙袋里）,也有人送朋友特殊的食物,如紅棗（中文名字“紅棗”,意為“紅到”）和橘子（它在粵語的發(fā)音“kat”音似“福運(yùn)”）.