Chinese New Year ( Spring Festival )

ughout house cleaning, settling accounts and clearing off debts, by which to pass the year. After putting up couplets and pictures in the doors on the Lunar New Year¡¯s Eve, the last day of the twelfth moon in the Chinese lunar calendar , each family gathers for a sumptuous meal called ¡®family reunion dinner¡¯. People will enjoy the food and drink in abundance and Jiaozi. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd is necessary, for in Chinese, their pronunciations sounds like ¡®Ji¡¯, ¡®Yu¡¯, and ¡®Doufu¡¯, with the meanings of auspicious, abundant and rich. Sons and daughters working away from home come back to join their parents. After dinner, people sit together before the TV to watch the New Year¡¯s program and chat with each other. About ten minutes before the ringing of the New Year¡¯s bell, people let out the fireworks to welcome back the Kitchen God from the Heaven, who is in charge of the fortune and misfortune of the household he dwells.