http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Eve2 That's the world from my perspective - with a free weblog from blogigo. en kjun kjun Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:22:24 +0100 daily 1 As part of the the Chinese New Year celebration, people buy presents, decorations, special foods and new clothing. Railroad stations throughout China are filled with travelers who take their vacation days around New  Year to return home for a family reunion.   Days before the New Year celebration, Chinese families are busy giving their home a thorough cleaning. It is believed the cleaning sweeps away bad luck and makes the house ready for good luck to enter. All brooms and dust pans are put away on New Year's Eve so good luck cannot be swept away. In many homes, doors and windowpanes get a new coat of red paint. The home is decorated with paper-cuts and poems called couplets of "happiness", "wealth", "longevity" and "satisfactory marriage with children". The New Year's Eve supper is a feast with all the members of the family getting together. One popular food is "jiaozi" which are dumplings boiled in water. After dinner, the whole family stays up all... Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:22:24 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Eve2/What-we-saw-last-night-In-Beijing/2/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Eve2/What-we-saw-last-night-In-Beijing/2/   Yestoday was the Eve of the year of Rooster, we went to the western Beijing Drangon Spring Hotel to see fireworks show...and eat Chinese traditional dumping Jiaozhi. all the Chinese families at the first day of the New Year should be eat it, means bring the money in because its shape as a old Chinese golden coin.                 What we saw there--A great number of firecrackers bombed there and there and painted the dark sky full of cloudy and lights. And during the day of the first day of the Year , all people are attend the Temple Fair ...the whole members of the family and a couple or friends both man and lady get togethering at the Fair.   In old times, people burned  incense to offer their god.   Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:10:14 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Eve2/Chinese-New-Year-s-Eve-of-the-Year-of-Rooster/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Eve2/Chinese-New-Year-s-Eve-of-the-Year-of-Rooster/1/