Spring Festival is the most important festival among all the Chinese traditional festivals. It is also called the Lunar New Year. Each year most Chinese will have one week Spring Festival leave. During the holiday, people usually will have a family reunion dinner on the New Year's Eve and then the New Year celebrations, which are marked by visits to kin, relatives and friends, a practice known as "New Year Visiting".
New Year visiting normally costs one whole day. In the morning, people will wear their new clothes and buy some dim sum and fruit as the gift for their friends. The host will prepare many delicious dishes as the lunch. If the guest takes along their kids for the visit, it is a custom for the host to give the kids a red envelop containing money as the New Year gift.
New Year visiting is a chance for people to get together and discuss the past year's work and life. It is also a relaxing time for people to express their wishes for the coming year.
Grace Wang
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