On Chinese New Year’s Eve, people usually clean their houses and decorate their houses with red and new things, like new furniture. Because there was a monster. Its name was “Year”. It was very dangerous. At Chinese New Year, it came out and ate people. Year was very afraid of the colour red, light and noise. Therefore, people posted up red paper on doors and play fire crackers to scare Year away. Now, Year no longer comes out. Therefore, all the people are happy and like this festival very much. They also go to flower market to buy peach blossom or other flowers. At this festival, people usually wear new clothes and go to relatives’ home to gather together to have lunch or dinner. People who got married have to give red packets to other relatives. Some special food of Chinese New Year are fried dumplings,Nian gao, melon seeds and sweets. Some of the people like to eat basin cuisine at this festival.