CCTV Spring Festival Gala

After the dinner, the whole family sit together, chatting and watching TV, and stay stay up late till the morning to guard the year. The houses are lit up brightly with lamps both outside and inside of the house.

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Another custom still practiced in modern China on New Year's Eve is cleaning the house. This is done to welcome the coming of the New Year.

On each New Year's Eve, each family also sticks on their doors spring couplets and blow up firecrackers. Early in the morning of the 1st of the first lunar month they go to their relatives and friends' to send their regards and congratulations.