a)I believe that all chinese people in world celebrates chinese new year. I celebrate it too, because i am a chinese. Chinese New Year is a very important festival to the my family.My family and i will do all the cleaning of the house, and the decorations before one week of the chinese new year. My grandmother and i will go Chinatown on weekends to buy all new year goodies. Usually, we will buy alot of things, like the glutinous rice cake and flowers. My grandfather usually won't go with us, because he do not like shopping. Other than foods and decorative items, we will also buy new year clothes. Most of my new year clothes are red in colour because the chinese believes that the colour red brings good luck. On the day before new year, the whole family will get together and watch tv, play mahjong and eat steambowl in my grandparent's house. I really enjoyed that as it can bring joy to the family. When the clock strucks 12nn, the childrens will shout HAPPY NEW YEAR to the family, and then the adults will make us Angbao and we will be very happy. We will also stay up late. in chinese it is called 'shou sui'. which means that if you stayed up until very late on the first day of chinese new year, you can bring longevity to your parents. Thus, all the children stayed up until 3am , until we really cannt stand it and fell asleep.

In the afternoon, we will also visit other friends and relatives' house, wearing our new clothes. The children will wish the elderly good luck , properity and best wishes and the they will give us angbao! And then we will gather in one corner counting our money. I can say that chinese new year is the most important festival for the chinese as it can bring luck and joyness to the family. I enjoyed it alot.

-Liu Si Yi (13) 2E7