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Chinese New Year usually happen in February, in which we called family month because people will back home even if they have work do not done, and student will have a long time vacation but also have a lots homework. For past 24 years, I had 20 years to have New Year with my family in my hometown, unfortunate I probably be going to forget the feeling about Chinese New Year since I came to America for 4 years. Chinese New Year and America New Year are during the different time: America New Year is Christmas day in which on 25. December and Chinese will be two month later. So as an international Chinese student who have not possible having a Chinese New Year in China. I like New Year not only have a long vacation, but only the feeling will make me happy. In this essay, I really want to write what we usually do about Chinese New Year in a story.

The first thing I want to introduce couplet and lantern. Couplet is constituted by two long sentences and one short terms, and this two sentences must have causal relationship, in addition the effect of short terms is to summary these two sentences. We would like to buy some couplet that meaning is people will have much money in New Year or all family will keeping a good health. The couplet is paste on the door, the first sentence must on the right, and the second sentence is on the left and the short terns will on the top. Lantern often under the ceiling. I remember my work is paste all of the couplet in every doors in one years. This was my first time and I was 13 years old, so I did not know the rules on Lantern, the first sentence must on the right side and the second sentence must on the left side. I though the rules is from left to right when we wrote some words, so read couplet as same as wrote words. When my parents checked my works they were angry and laughed at me. They commanded me to paste again and followed correct process. Couplet was hard to took down when paste already. If did not carefully will broke couplet, so I used three times over than paste. ( I means use more time to did it) Lantern and couplet are red color, so lantern will throw off red light while turn on and lantern looks like sun. That’s why Chinese like everything are red on New Year such as red clothes, couplet and lantern.

The second thing we usually do in Chinese New Year is red packet and family reunion dinner (New Year’s Eve Dinner). Older should put some money in red packet and give child. When I was a child, my favorite things is to have red packet even if there have not much money, because we more care about this form, but if there have much money that will be better. In addition, there have a form child need to blessing older while child get red packet. Mostly we would like to say have a good health to older. For family reunion dinner have two different decision, first decision is eating in restaurant with all family and the second decision is eating at home. Making a bumper dinner is very difficult, because the quantity and quality must be enough and great. Also clearing would be hard to finish on next day. On the side, my family have many people and all of us will eat together in New Year. So we would like to go to restaurant, another reason is restaurant’s food are delicious than our made.