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1 Introduce one of your favorite holidays. Spring Festival The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month. Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today. Before the New Year comes, people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their furniture. When spring festival eve, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station (CCTV) is essential entertainment for the Chinese. According to custom, people dress up early in the morning. First they express greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings for breakfast, while Southern Chinese perpole eat niangao (年糕) . The lively atmosphere not only fills every household, but permeates to streets and lanes. A series of activities such as lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days. The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished. 2 Introduce one of the tourist attractions in the world or China. Summer Palace 从历史和艺术成就两方面描述，不懂的词查出后换成熟悉的 Originally named as Qinyiyuan the Summer Palace locates in the northwest Beijing and covers an area of about 300 hectares. Firstly constructed in 1750, the Summer Palace was burnt down in 1860 by the English-French allies army（英法联军）. In 1886, the Qin Dynasty restored Qinyiyuan financed by the money which was originally uesd for the Chinese Navy and two year later it was named as Yi He Yuan known