Chinese lunar new year is a big festival in the whole country, it lasts thounds of years. 

Usually, when the day becomes cold, the winter comes with our final examinations and the tacheres complete all the works, it is always 10 or 15 days before the new year’s day. Then, the school will be closed for 20days or one month , it is called new years’ vacation. Chinese students all like to go back home because there is a big traditional celebration in all families. People have on new clothes, enjoy abundant food, visit the relatives. Some foreign students go back homeland and some stay at the China to enjoy and experience a newfangled Chinese life. 

It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. 

Ten days later, came Chinese new year’s eave. As the Christmas eve, Chinese new year’s eave is grander than any days during the whole year. Families will try best to stay together have a good dinner. As you expect, mothers (housewive) will be the most important person and also the busiest one. When it becames dark, wine or liquor will be fulled in various glasses or cups, drink is welcomed everywhere that day.

In order to help you understand Chinese new year, it is necessary to tell you something about Chinese lunar calendar. Lunar calendar is the calendar that depend on the rotation of the moon surrounded with the earth. Generally, the calendar is 20days to 40days delayed to the solar canlendar which we used global. In 2016, the first in Chinese lunar calendar is 8th Feb in sloar canlendar. So people also called it spring festival, because spring always not so far then.

The New Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese populations.

Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese New Year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner.

At the end of this article, there is a special and interesting thing I’d like to tell you:

The Chinese animal zodiac, or shengxiao (/shnng-sshyaoww/ ‘born resembling’), is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by an animal and its reputed attributes. Traditionally these zodiac animals were used to date the years.