Spring Festival is here, well almost.

When we talk about this national festival, tradition is the word that first comes to mind: house cleaning, cooking lots of food, hanging scrolls with couplets on doors for good luck, lighting fireworks to bid adieu to the past year and greet the new one.

Traditions are important. A country that loses its traditions loses its national identity. Yet it does not mean that we have to follow all traditions blindly. Some have to change with time.