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The most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Years Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival. Preparations for the New Year begin the last few days of the last moon, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts repaid, hair cut and new clothes purchased. Houses are festooned(给饰花彩) with paper scrolls bearing auspicious(吉祥的) antithetical(对偶的) couplet and in many homes, people burn incense at home and in the temples to pay respects to ancestors and ask the gods for good health in the coming year. On New Years Eve, all the members of families come together to feast. At midnight at the turn of the old and new year, people used to let off fire-crackers which serve to drive away the evil spirits and to greet the arrival of the new year. On New Year’s day, people dress up in their best or ancient costumes to visit relatives and friends or go on or watch parades in the streets. Children receive red packets decorated with gold symbols and filled with “lucky money”. Festivals Chinese Festivals Lantern Festival The Dragon Boat Festival Tomb Sweeping Day Mid-Autumn Day New Year’s Day Double-ninth National Day May 1st Foreign Festivals Christmas Day Thanksgiving Day Mother’s Day April Fool’s Day Valentine’s Day Easter Obon A traditional Buddhist festival which takes place throughout Japan around August 15. At this time, people visit their ancestors graves, welcome the ancestors spirits home with food and offerings and then see the spirits off. In this picture we can see some Japanese women are floating paper lanterns to welcome their past ancestors back home. The Day of the Dead in Mexico The best way to describe this Mexi