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Similarites: Both christmas and chinese new year is a festival that can allow people to look forward to, and make people feel happy and excited. When you go to the shopping centre, you will always be able to hear chinese new year and christmas songs when it is 2 weeks before the festival. People will be busy buying decorative items to decorate the house, to make the house to contain a sense of season happiness.
Differences:Christmas is the most important festival for the American and Europeans, while Chinese New year is the most important festival for chinese. For chinese new year, the elderly will give the young angbao as a symbol of good luck. However, for Christmas, the elderly will give the young presents, which are nicely wrapped. For Chinese new year, we will spent alot of money buying goods. But for Jess, who comes from a poor family, usually do not have much money to buy Christmas gifts and decorations.
-Liu Si Yi (13) 2E7