As Christmas is to Westerners, so is Spring Festival to the Chinese. Originally called Yuandan, Spring Festival is the oldest and grandest of all Chinese festivals. With Yuan meaning ‘beginning’ and dan ‘morning’, Yuandan, symbolizes the breaking of a new dawn on the first morning of the new year and represents the end of winter and hope for a good spring. Bidding farewell to the old and ringing in the new is a recurrent theme in the traditions associated with the Spring Festival. This book is an interesting introduction of China’s Spring Festival. As a reader, you will know the essentials, traditions and food of the Spring Festival.