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The Spring Festival (Chunjie), also known as the Chinese Lunar New Year, is the most important holiday in China. For Chinese people, it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar, varying from late January to early February.
For ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year’s Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called Lantern Festival, marks the end of Spring Festival in many parts of the country.
Preparations for the New Year start from the last few days of the last month, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, rhyming couplets are stuck to doors, debts are repaid, hair is cut and new clothes are purchased.
On New Year’s Eve, family members all come together to feast. At midnight at the turn of the old and New Year, many people set off fire-crackers to greet the coming New Year. Also many people enjoy the annual China Central Television’s Spring Festival Gala which is broadcast live on CCTV Channel One for another memorable evening of entertainment. The Most important activity during the Spring Festival is visiting relatives and friends with gifts and sending New Year’s Greetings.
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