[speaker001:] The Spring Festival is drawing close. By then we will have five days off. I am expecting it.
[speaker002:] Can you tell me something about the Spring Festival?
[speaker001:] Just like you celebrate Christmas, we celebrate our lunar New Year's Day, the Spring Festival. It is a time for the family members and relatives to have a get-together.
[speaker002:] Christmas is also a special time for us to have the family reunion and to express our best wishes to those we love and those who love us in the coming new year.
[speaker001:] Christmas has more religious nature, while our Spring Festival is a more traditional holiday. On the New Year's Eve, we have a big dinner called " Family Reunion Dinner ". One of the traditional food to eat at the dinner is dumplings. After that, the adults usually sit chatting, watching TV, or playing cards.
[speaker002:] What are the children doing?
[speaker001:] They usually go outside to play firecrackers and fireworks.
[speaker002:] I heard one of the purposes to do it is to frighten the devils so they will not come to do any harm to people in the next year.
[speaker001:] Perhaps it is like what people told you. At 24 hours midnight, the time when the New Year really comes, we exchange " Happy New Year 'to each other, and parents and grandparents will take out small packages wrapped with red paper, in them are some what we call " Lucky Money.
[speaker002:] Who will get the money?
[speaker001:] Of course the children.