Greeting Season：
春節 The Spring Festival
農曆 lunar calendar
正月 lunar January；
the first month by lunar calendar
除夕 New Year's Eve；
eve of lunar New Year
初一 the beginning of New Year
元宵節 The Lantern Festival
Food names：
年糕 Nian-gao； rise cake； New Year cake
團圓飯 family reunion dinner
年夜飯 the dinner on New Year's Eve
餃子 Jiao-zi； Chinese meat ravioli
湯圓 Tang-yuan； dumplings made of sweet rice， rolled into balls and
stuffed with either sweet orspicy fillings
八寶飯 eight treasures rice pudding
糖果盤 candy tray
什錦糖 assorted candies - sweet and fortune
蜜冬瓜 candied winter melon - growth and good health
西瓜子 red melon seed - joy， happiness， truth and sincerity
金桔 cumquat - prosperity
糖蓮子 candied lotus seed - many descendents to come
糖藕 candied lotus root - fulfilling love relationship
紅棗 red dates - prosperity
花生糖 peanut candy - sweet
Customs：
過年 Guo-nian； have the Spring Festival
對聯 poetic couplet： two successive rhyming lines in poetry