作者：赵耀 高中二年级

Obviously the most important holiday in our country is Spring Festival, which is also called as  the Chinese New Year. To our Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the GREgorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.

Some thing of our Spring Festival is very interesting that  to  our ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year’s Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.