The Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, has many traditional customs and activities. Some of these include:
Cleaning the house: In preparation for the new year, many people will thoroughly clean their houses to sweep away any bad luck from the past year.
Decorations: Red lanterns, paper cuttings, and couplets are commonly used to decorate homes and streets during the Spring Festival.
Reunion dinner: The New Year's Eve dinner is an important time for famipes to gather together and enjoy a feast.
Giving red envelopes: Adults will often give red envelopes filled with money to children as a New Year's gift.
Fireworks: Fireworks are traditionally set off at midnight on New Year's Eve to scare away evil spirits and welcome in the new year.
New Year's Day: It is a traditional custom that people will visit their relatives and friends on the first day of the Chinese New Year.
Lantern Festival: On the 15th day of the new year, people will release lanterns into the sky and solve riddles printed on them.