除夕夜Spring Festival’s Eve

Spring Festival’s Eve is the last night in the last month of lunar calendar next to Spring Festival Day，the First Day of New Year. Chuxi，the Chinese name of Spring Festival’s Eve，means the old year past and we will greet the new by the turn of year. During all festival，the activities or celebrations focus on praying for Good Fortunes and getting rid of Bad Fortunes.    In ancient China’s Zhou and Qin Dynasty，when it came to Lunar New Year，Royal Palace would have a ritual named Danuo，to drive away ghost and bad luck of illness and disaster，it was also called "Zhuchu（to drive away）". People called the day before Spring Festival’s Eve Before-Year’s Night，so the Spring Festival’s Eve constantly is Year’s Night.    The Spring Festival’s Eve is a most lingered night. In this warm eve，when night coming，youngsters handle a stick of incense（香）to ignite（点燃） the firecrackers，a child plugs up his ear by one hand and leans to ignite the fireworks by another，other children cover their ears aside to wait fireworks’ happy bang impatiently. Although some senior citizens are old， they still could remember what a beautiful spring festival they had in their childhood.    To have a family super，make sacrifice and stay up a whole night for greeting new year’s coming are the main three activities in the Spring Festival Eve.