拜年Pay a New Year Call

An important activity during the Spring Festival is bainian （to pay a New Year call）.People start to pay New Year calls from the lunar New Year's Day，that is， the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Ever since the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century，ordinary people have begun to exchange greeting cards on this day.

On the morning of the lunar New Year's Day，people get up very early and call on others. The earlier one does so，the more sincere he is. Moreover，people wear new clothes and a new cap，symbolizing that a new year has begun.

The younger generation should call on their elders first，such as the grandfather，grandmother，father and mother，wishing them "Good health" and "Long life". Then the elders give children some money in a red envelope as a New Year gift. After that，people call on their relatives，friends and neighbors. As "big tangerine" is a homonym for "very lucky" in Chinese，so people often present red big tangerines as a gift while paying a New Year call.

Nowadays，besides greeting cards，people also use telephones and e-mails to pay New Year calls.

1, the first month is, Vientiane, new, paste couplets, wear new clothes. Eat dumplings, fireworks to New Year,懂礼貌. Some people boast尊老爱幼, lucky money can be Do not flower. 
2, the first month is a small 15 years, the Lantern Festival on the Renqing reunion. Flower lights, guess riddles, New Year's intention to prepare homogeneous,一年之计Spring is too small in the new weather. 

3, 25 hoard fight, New Year's Day should not blind mixed paste. Year plan to set right, to ensure that food Mandun money over the counter. Does fish soup cooked rice and ate a mouthful喷喷incense. 

4, February 2, Liuzhou rise, the rain clouds cloth bode well, I wish a good harvest year, something to look forward to favorable weather. Cut green onion patches sharing infants, scorpion's tail cut a section of children, making wall bar旮旯Hill, pests are not afraid of the whole worm. 

5 February 12 is the North Korea flower, flowers birthday in tonight, and praying for good-looking girl, looks more than flowers Qiao. 

6, March III暖风吹, dancing all over the sky to fly kites. Third, in March, bloom Yan, wind and more brilliant peach. 

7, in April, the Ching Ming, the Ta-Qing Country music enough. Qingming ago, advisable祭扫, trouble falling飘絮Tim. It was sad because of injury the spring-inch gold-inch难买time. Phi-mediated push fire Zhi belief, began to eat the Ching Ming Festival Cold Food Observance 

8, May 5 is the Dragon Boat Festival, Yuan投水Miluo River. Package粽子dragon-boat race to mark the customs can not be lost. Eating fried cake, embroidered Sachet, hanging argyi, drink realgar, there is evil in addition to abusive prescriptions, health habits of everyday stresses. 

China Dining Custom 
Table Manners 

The main difference between Chinese and western eating habits is that unlike the West, where everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed on the table and everybody shares. If you are being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine and will do their best to show their hospitality. 

And sometimes the Chinese host use their chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say how yummy it is. If you feel uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite thank you and leave the food there.

Spring festival is the traditional festival in china,people used to paste spring festival couples,hang red lanterns,make dumplings,pay new years calls to the relations and friends to celebrate the coming year.but now ,chinese have got a new manner to celebrate the new year such as watching evening show,sending e_mail cards,sending flowers,travelling and so on. 

Social Customs and Behavior
「社会习俗与行为」

　　Social customs and ways of behaving change. Things which were considered impolite many years ago are now acceptable. To see a woman smoking in public today is not surprising, nor is it always 'ladies first' through doors, or on a crowded bus or train need the man give his seat to a woman. Customs also differ from country to country. The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable, especially if they are your guests.