• On the New Year's Eve ,most families watch Spring Festival Gala on television,people work far away from home will manage to come back, regardless of long-distance travel, so the "Grand Dinner on New Year's Eve" is also called "Family Reunion Dinner". Whatever the financial condition is, every family will make the dinner the most sumptuous(豪华的) and ceremonious(隆重的 )one in the year. At twelve o'clock, when a new year drives off the old, every family will shoot off firecrackers to greet new days and send off old ones.
• According to history records, the Spring Festival derives from god and ancestor worships in the Shang dynasty. Nowadays, this superstitious meaning has faded away and is replaced with a symbol of unification(统一), happiness and hope.