(a) As a Chinese, the festival which we will usually celebrate will be Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year signifies a good start ahead and every family will be busy preparing, shopping for new clothes and doing spring cleaning when new year is round the corner.

Firstly, we sometimes will also visit places like Chinatown which has the atmosphere of a new year, with decorations all around and families shopping happily there. We often buy our new year goodies from there as there is a variety of choices for us to choose from. Although we have to walk among a sea of people but nevertheless, we cannot resist the temptation of shopping at Chinatown. On the eve of Chinese New Year, family will gather around to have steamboat as renion dinner.

Secondly, on the first morning of Chinese New Year, every family will be out for visiting to their relatives, wishing them good health, luck and prosperity Wearing new clothes and bringing mandarin oranges along with them are commonly seen. Mandarin oranges are associated with good luck. During the Chinese New Year celebrations, mandarin oranges are given to family and friends to usher in prosperity. Red packets with money in it, are typically handed out to younger generation by their parents, grand-parents, relatives, which symbolizes luck and wealth. Of course, we, as the children will be very elated to receive red packets from the elders and we will also get to play with our cousins which we will not meet them so often and as well as, we do not have to attend school.

Celebrating events like Chinese New Year can allow us to communicate better with our family and friends. It is a good opportunity for family members to gather together and have a part in doing the housework, not only can they lighten the burden of the person who is always doing the housework, they can also bond one another’s relationship better since parents nowadays are too busy to have time with their children. I feel that family relationship is the goal of celebrating events with family members as we can have our time spent together, hence, have a better relationship through communication.