It's the new year.

Celebrating Spring Festival is commonly referred to as 'passing the year'.

If you mention New Year in China, the image that many people will think of is a family gathered around wrapping dumplings together.

The custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve is related to an ancient Chinese method of measuring time; in ancient China, each day was divided into twelve sections: the beginning of each day was called 'first time', which corresponds to the period from 11pm to 1am.