Happy Chinese New Year

Today, it's not only Vanlentine's Day. For Chinese people, today also is Chinese new year. Every year, I don't know when is the Chinese new year day because every year is different days, but when the day is, my parent will tell me. According to my reseach, this festival traditionally begins on the first day of the month in the Chinese calendar and ends on 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Normally, during this day, we say good greetings to everyone. For example, " Kung Hei Fat Choy" or "Happy New Year" is the most common one. Another thing that is always related to Chines New year is red envelopes. Adults and young couples put some money in a envelope, and give it to children. The envelope is always red because chinese people traditionally think red can bring poeple luck. My mother told me "In these days, Don't say any word related to death." I still remember when I was in Mainland in my mother's hometown, in the new year day, we played fireworks, which can mean driving away evil spirits. There still have a lot of rules from different towns or different cities, but basically that all what I know about chinese new year.