How to greet relatives in English?

Visiting relatives during the Spring Festival.

New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on a happy New Year and greeting their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, you should also salute and congratulate.

With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. In addition to following the previous New Year greetings, etiquette telegrams, telephone calls, short messages and online New Year greetings also came into being.

Generally speaking, the time to pay New Year greetings is from the first day to the fifth day. Visiting relatives and friends after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is a memorial to the early years, and visiting relatives and friends before the fifteenth day after the fifth day of the first month is a memorial to the old age. . Early old age belongs to the nature of emergency or remedy to avoid regret. There is a folk proverb: it is not too late to celebrate the New Year with a heart.

It is appropriate to give gifts during the Spring Festival. When giving New Year greetings to elders, teachers and teachers, you should bring some gifts appropriately. Gifts should not be too expensive and luxurious, but also "approachable". Holding a bunch of flowers and sending a beautiful greeting card has become a romantic and warm way for modern urban people to pay New Year greetings. New year's gifts should also pay attention to hygiene.

If you have a better understanding of the New Year greeting object, you can choose the gift that the other person likes, which is also a good choice. If you don't know much, you can choose flowers, fruits and food ... you can't go wrong. Alcohol and tobacco should be determined according to the object. For example, it's meaningless to send grandma cigarettes and wine she doesn't need to pay a New Year call. If the host has children at home, he can also choose the gifts that the children like appropriately.