Chinese New Year

After four days’ break, our Chinese new year in Singapore is to the end. For a Chinese, spring festival is the most significant holiday. The holiday is a very jubilant occasion mainly because it is the time when people take a break from work to get together with family and friends. The origin of the Chinese New Year Festival can be traced back thousands of years through a continually evolving series of colorful legends and traditions. One of the most famous legends is Nien, an extremely cruel and ferocious beast which eats people on New Year's Eve. To keep Nien away, red-paper couplets are pasted on doors, torches are lit, and firecrackers are set off throughout the night. On Chinese New Year’s Eve, today, we send our best wishes through cell-phone, Internet and all the other multimedia. Families sit around the table eating dumplings and watching the New Year Ceremony on TV. This year is the second time that I spend outside my family. Same as before we called all the juniors from my home university in China cooking and having funs. However this still cannot stop me missing my family.