Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is the most important traditional festival in China. It begins on the first day of the first lunar month (usually in late January or early February) and ends on the 15th day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival). Chinese New Year 2014 (Chinese Spring Festival) will be on Jan. 31, 2014, and the year of 2014 is the year of horse. The country will welcome Year of the Horse with timeless tradition. Locals flock to aromatic temples to pray for good fortune, fill themselves with auspicious foods and string up shock-red lanterns.

2014 is the year of horse. In Chinese astrology, Horse year is considered a fortunate year that brings luck and good things. Horse (马) year in Chinese means all of the good things will comes very soon. (马上有福,马上有礼). In some famous Chinese proverb, Horse also identically with good fortune and event. More than just festival and celebration, Spring Festival is the important time when all big family will gather together to celebrate it together. It has a deep meaning which is let all family in far distance come back home and celebrate the festival together with the elder.

This period of time, most Chinese will be at home with their families and there will be less people at tourist attractions. People will clean their house and decorate it properly to welcoming the New Year. Commonly, they will decorate house with couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper wishes for a bright future and good luck for the whole next year. Besides the famous Chinese character "fu" 福(meaning blessing or happiness), big red lanterns and others red paper-cuttings can also be seen on the front door, window glass and on the wall.

After all family member gather together, commonly they will have a big luxurious dinner at home. This called family reunion dinner. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. Moreover, glutinous rice cakes or also called Nian Gao in Chinese have an interesting meaning for better life and dumplings which means rich. Not only for its delicious taste, all of those traditional Chinese food also has own meaning behind.

After the banquet, all family members share the Spring Festival Gala Evening, a performance on CCTV loved by people at home and abroad.  The event will broadcast for about 5 hours from 8:00 pm till 1:00 am. When the clock strikes 12 o'clock midnight of New Year's Eve, people light firecrackers and fireworks. It is one of the most popular ways of celebrating the spring festival coming.

The lively atmosphere is full of households, streets, as well as lanes commonly happen till the morning. More than that, as tradition people also will wear new clothes to welcome the New Year coming. And at the early morning, people greet relatives and friends with congratulations and wish good luck to each other.