to celebrate the Chinese New Year

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

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

It's the new year.

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.