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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year. The Origin of Chinese New Year. Celebration. Dine together, Speak complimentary and fortune words, Display the Tzun-Lien (Spring Couplets), Firecrackers, Red bags . Before New Year Eve.

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Chinese New Year

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  1. Chinese New Year

  2. The Origin of Chinese New Year

  3. Celebration • Dine together, • Speak complimentary and fortune words, • Display the Tzun-Lien (Spring Couplets), • Firecrackers, • Red bags

  4. Before New Year Eve • Before Chinese New Year - every family is busy giving its house a thorough cleaning, hoping to sweep away all the ill-fortune and make way for the wishful in-coming good luck. • Decorate the doors and windows with “Spring couplets

  5. January 1st • It is also called “Four Starts” - start of Year, Month, Day and Hour. • Worship your ancestors/gods (sky and earth) • Set off the firecrackers to welcome the spring • Greeting/visiting to receive red bags (Walking in the Spring, Bai-Nien)

  6. January 2nd/3rd • Daughter-Coming-Home-Day • Dog day - dogs get best treatment from human-beings. It is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs • Mice-wedding-day: the entire family go to bed earlier, not to disturb the wedding and have salt, rice and cake to show the harvest and shared with mice

  7. January 4th/5th/6th • 4th: Greeting gods - this is the day all the gods back to work, since they go back to heaven and report to the ‘Jade Emperor” • 5th: people stay home to welcome the “God of Wealth”, shops are open on this day • 6th : now you can broom and clean your house.

  8. January 7th/8th • 7th - “Human Day” - according to old Chinese sayings, the human being was born after Heaven, Earth, chicken, dog, hog, goat, cow and horse. You should eat a soup with seven vegetables to keep all the illness away. • 8th - Smooth Stars Day: After the dark, stars coming out in the sky, every family will provide the star-shape cakes with 49 lamps or 108 lantern on the table. Everyone will wish their dream come true from the stars of their own

  9. January 9 - 14 • 9th - Birthday of Jade Emperor • 10th- Open-light ceremony for the new born babies for their bright future • 11th - Invite your son-in-law for dinner • 12th - nothing special (maybe Nintendo Day) • 13th- Try to light the lantern • 14th- ok, how about game-boy

  10. January Lantern Festival • Lantern Display, contest • Lantern Riddle Contest

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