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Title: Chinese New Year Celebration


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Chinese New Year Celebration
  • By Kacey Bolingbroke

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How Chinese prepare for the New Year
  • They clean their homes and business places. This
    symbolizes sweeping out the old and welcoming in
    the new. They put all scissors away for fear that
    they might cut their new luck.
  • They also ready themselves by getting hair cuts,
    and buying new clothes for the new year.

3
On New Years Eve, many families
  • Gather together with their extended family
  • Have a big meal with special foods
  • Seal their windows to make sure the good luck
    wont get out
  • Take long baths because they dont clean
    themselves on New Years Day

4
On New Years Day many families
  • Break the seals on their windows
  • They are careful of what they say, and have very
    good manners, because it is believed that this
    will decide on the families luck for the rest of
    the year
  • And do not take baths so the new luck wont be
    washed away

5
On the following new years day the people
  • Continue to visit their relatives
  • Attend Chinese soap operas
  • Visit temples to pray for peace and good luck
  • Light joss sticks for good luck
  • Use fortune cookies to predict their future.

6
Some superstitions about the New year
  • It is said that the Chinese shoot fireworks on
    New Years Eve so that they will send away the bad
    and welcome in the new.
  • Everyone avoids saying bad words or negative
    language, also death and dying are never
    mentioned on this day. It is said that if you
    cry on the new day then you will cry throughout
    the year, therefore children are not spanked for
    being mischievous.

7
What to wear
  • Red clothes are preferred to be worn. Red to
    them is considered a bright and happy color. It
    is said that whoever is wearing the color, there
    future will be very bright and sunny.

8
Chinese New Year Game
  • A game that the Chinese play on New Years, is
    called the Chinese Zodiac Alphabetical order
    race. This is a game that can be played with 12
    people. You assign each person an animal, and
    then you see how fast you can put yourselves in
    the right order

9
Chinese Zodiac animals
  • Monkey smart, intelligent, but lack
    concentration
  • Rooster Creative and alert
  • Dog Able to entertain themselves for hours and
    like the sense of achievment
  • Horse Never quiet, and good at speaking for
    themselves
  • Sheep Lack self confidence, but very well
    behaved
  • Snakes Like spending time on there own but can
    be easily angered.
  • Dragon Imaginative, inquisitive
  • Rabbit Sensitive, but well in arts.
  • Tiger Competitive and great athletes. Loves
    hard challenges
  • Rat Great leaders. Do well in school and sport
    activity
  • Pig Full of joy and love, easy going
  • Ox shy, creative, and hard working

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The End!
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