During the Chinese New Year's celebration, people have many traditional activities. The Chinese believe that they should do these traditional activities if they want to have a nice whole year. For example, they clean their house, pay off debts, buy new clothes, paint their house and windows and get a new haircut. These activities mean a new life and a new start. On the Chinese New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve dinner 1 is a very important thing.
Chinese families come together for a celebration dinner.
Both children and adults eat together. The dinner is the best if eaten slowly and tasting each dishes. There must be several dishes on the New Year's Eve dinner, such as yearlong vegetables, chicken, fish, clams, New Year cakes and carrots. In my family, my mother always makes 10 or 11 kinds of dishes in the New Year Eve's dinner. I like whole dishes of my mother cooking, but my favorite dishes are New Year cakes and yearlong vegetables because they are only cooked in this date.