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厦门十中Unit 1 练习 Festivals Legal holidays in China are New Year (January 1st), a national one-day holiday; Spring Festival (the lunar New Year), a national three-day holiday; International Working Women’s Day (March 8th); Arbor Day (March 12th); International Labor Day (May 1st), a national one-day holiday; Chinese Youth Day (May 4th); International Children’s Day (June 1st); Army Day (August 1st); Teachers? Day (September 10th); and National Day (October 1st), a national two-day holiday. China’s biggest and most popular traditional festivals include: Chinese New Year/Spring Festival Each year, between the end of winter and the beginning of spring, people throughout China enthusiastically celebrate the first traditional festival of the year, the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, every household will display Spring Festival couplets and pictures, and decorate the home. Spring Festival Eve is an important time for family reunions. Usually, in the evening of the last day of the twelfth month by the lunar calendar each year, the entire family gets together for a New Year’s Eve dinner. After dinner, all family members sit together to chat or play games, staying up till early the next morning. In the morning people pay New Year calls on relatives to extend congratulations. During the festival, many people also attend traditional recreational activities, such as the lion dance, dragon-lantern dance and stilt-walking. Chinese New Years is by far the most well-known Chinese holiday, and also the most significant to Chinese culture. Also known as The Spring Festival, observation of the holiday actually begins the day before the beginning of the Lunar Year. The mode of celebration varies from province to province, different areas having their own specific traditions. Listed below are some of the customs associated with New Years. The day before the Spring Festival, there is a lot of cleaning and preparation done. Offerings to the Kitchen God are c