Chinese New Year In Chinese culture there are so many holidays through out a year. Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month. Chinese people celebrate Chinese New Year through out the first fifteenth day of the month, they would spend a lot of time to prepare for the festival such as shop for flowers, fruits, poetic couplets and new clothes. They believed that everything should be new because that will brings luck for the whole year. Women and children clean the house and organize stuffs at home while the men working so hard for their crops. The first day of the Lunar New year is “the welcoming of the gods of the heavens and the earth.”People will prepare meat, rice, and foods on the first day because they want to thanks god for ensure long and happy lives for them. Nobody will visit their relatives and family on the first day, most of them will attend temple to pray and wish. They believed that all wishes will comes true if you pray on the first day of the New Year. On the second day, the Chinese light firecrackers and pray to their own ancestors. The firecrackers’ sound would scare the ghosts away as well as bad luck. The family will gather together to have dinner. On the third and fourth days are for sons-in-laws to pay respect to their parents-in –law. The fifth and sixth day the Chinese can visit their friends freely. In Hong Kong, farmers will pray for god and display their produce. They also make seven types of drink to greeting each other. The eighth day is considered the birthday of human being, people will eat noodles with pork to brings luck fro them. The ninth day is the last day for children to collect re envelopes because nobody will give out red envelopes after the ninth day. The 10th through the 15th, all the friends and relatives should be invited for dinner and they will eat congee or green...