The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is one of the most important and famous festivals in China. My favorite festival is also the Spring Festival because I can meet with all my families and we play together, eat together, and also get pocket money together.

The Spring Festival in Chinese called “Guo Nian”. There is an old story about it, “Nian” was a monster in the ancient China. In January and February, “Nian” would come to attack some villages and eat people. People were all afraid of it. One day, an intelligent person said that maybe “Nian” was scared about noise and red color. So they put red paper on their door, wear red clothes, and play firecrackers when “Nian” came to attack them. “Nian” was too scared about that, he left and never came back again. Because of that, people celebrated this event at that time by putting red things in their home and playing fireworks on that day. Now it becomes the Chinese New Year. We can also it called the Spring Festival.

This year, I didn’t celebrate the Spring Festival with my families. I celebrated the Spring Festival by having a formal dinner with all the Chinese students and some teachers in my school. Mrs. Berzinkas ordered all the food and arranged all the things for the dinner, such as she bought all the decorations, plates, chopsticks, fireworks and some traditional Chinese drinks. It was so nice, and the food was really tasty. Also, Mrs. Carmen Greenburg gave each of the Chinese students a red envelope for celebrating the Chinese New Year. I really appreciated about that. After the dinner, we watched fireworks together, it was so good!

I really want to thank all the teachers, especially Mrs. Berzinkas and her family to provide all the Chinese students a chance to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and let us feel warm on that day. I wish all the teachers and students will do better in 2018.

My New Year resolution is to have a good grade, to make progress on my tennis skill, and to make more friends. I truly believe that I will do better and make a tremendous success in 2018, the year of dog.