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CHINESE NEW YEAR

CHINESE NEW YEAR. origin. The first Chinese new year festival was celebrated over 3,000 years ago. Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar . They celebrate for the New Year and Spring Dates: 2007 - Feb. 18 2008 - Feb. 7 2009 - Jan. 26

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CHINESE NEW YEAR

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  1. CHINESE NEW YEAR

  2. origin • The first Chinese new year festival was celebrated over 3,000 years ago. Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Lunar Calendar. • They celebrate for the New Year and Spring • Dates: • 2007 - Feb. 18 • 2008 - Feb. 7 • 2009 - Jan. 26 • 2010 - Feb. 14 • 2011 - Feb. 3 • 2012 - Jan. 23

  3. PREPARATIONS • Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. Firecrackers are the Chinese way of welcoming the New Year and expelling the old. The entire house is cleaned before New Year because if you dust or clean you might sweep away good luck

  4. FOOD OF CHINESE NEW YEAR • Usually more food is consumed during the New Year celebrations than any other time of the year. Other foods include a whole fish: to represent togetherness and abundance, and chicken for prosperity. The chicken is served with its head, tail and feet to symbolize completeness. Noodles should served be uncut, as they represent long life.

  5. Festivities on Chinese New Year • For the Chinese New Year celebrations, people wear red clothes, they decorate with poems on red paper and they give children "lucky money" in red envelopes.

  6. Decorations • People decorate their houses with red and gold because it wards away spirits. • Red symbolizes happiness and gold symbolizes wealth.

  7. Superstitions • If you cry on New Year's Day, you will cry throughout the year. So, children are not spanked, even if they are mischievous. • All debts have to be paid by the New Year. Anyone who doesn’t pay will be lending all year.

  8. Superstitions cont. • Red means fire, which according to legend can drive away bad luck. • People stay awake at night because they believe that their aged parents will live a happy, healthy, long life.

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