What is the difference between Chinese and Americans do during the festivals?

Chinese people and Americans do different things during the festival because of culture difference.
As everyone knows, there are many differences in our daily life. As an example, Chinese restaurant is so different than Americans. In China, people think a good restaurant should be lively. It also can be explained as “Lots of noise”, people think that means people like this restaurant so they come with their friends.

During the festivals in China, just like Middle Autumn Day, people like to invite their friends to a restaurant and have lunch with them. Then, they will have a dinner with their family (I mean all of the members: Grandparents, parents, uncle and so on). That is also a busy day because that is always the date for the markets to reduce their prices, and every stores open for the whole night.

In China, many cultural activities have been forgotten. However, the things on eating, just like what should we eat in a special festival once become the most important thing. I always feel having dinner with the my family means the all of the festival. During the festival, people need to spend twice as much as normal price for cooked cuisine only with nice name. (As an example, a soup worth 20 yuan , and during the festival, the restaurant will change its name to a good wish or others with a price 40-85yuan.)

Ps: Visual above shows the room for families have dinner.