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For Chinese families, the New Year is probably the most important event. It lasts for 15 days and before the two week celebration, households engage in what they call 'spring cleaning'. People do all of their cleaning and sweeping before the festival commences to avoid sweeping away their luck during the 2 week festival. You are not permitted to have any debt, because individuals who do will risk being cursed with bad luck for the rest of the year. It is very important to resolve these affairs before the New Year begins otherwise, you will face back luck for the rest of the new lunar year.

On the eve of Chinese New Year, people must return home to have dinner with their family. For instance, if a daughter and son are living abroad in Spain, they would fly home to have dinner with their parents in China. At dinner, married couples will give out little red envelopes with money to children and non married family members. The red pockets are given to them for good luck.

DAY 1
The first day is often the most exciting day. Anyone who is Buddhist will make a visit to their local temple to offer donations and offerings to the gods. This day is often marked with lion dances to expel any evil spirits from your place. Firecrackers symbolize the beginning of the two week festival.

Day 2
The second day of the Chinese New Year is for married daughters to visit their birth parents. Traditionally, daughters who have been married may not have the opportunity to visit their birth families frequently.

Day 3
On the third day of the festival, families usually stay home to prevent themselves from entering into any arguments with other people.

Day 4
Family members will often go and visit family and friends to wish them a happy and prosperous new year.

Day 5
This day is dedicated to the celebrating the birthday of Gods and some individuals in China, will eat dumplings in the morning for breakfast

Day 7
The seventh day is know as "Everyones' Birthday", because on this day everyone is one year older.

Finally on the fifteenth day of Chinese New Year, people have glutenous ball soup and some people take part in the lantern festival.