Gu Nin Hao

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Happy Chinese New Year!

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Guò Nián Hao!

• The most important festival for Chinese people
  just like Christmas in the West.

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Time
• The 1st day of the 1st lunar month
• ( one month later than the Gregorian calendar)

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Guò Nián Hao!

• It is on 18th of
• February 2007
• This Sunday!

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Chinese New Year
• 2007 is Year of
• Pig

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Papercut-Pig

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Papercut-Pig

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Papercut-Pig

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Papercut Pig

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Family Reunions!

• about 2.17 billion people are expected to travel
  to and from home in 40 days this year
• The railways expect to carry 156 million
  passengers this year
• ----China
  Economic Net

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Guò Nián Hao!

• They are buying train tickets!

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Migrant workers return home
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Guò Nián Hao!

• Bus station

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Guò Nián Hao!

• Airport

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Spring Festival couplets
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Guò Nián Hao!

• Spring Festival couplets

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Spring Festival couplets

• Everything goes well
• East Spring
• South Summer
• West Autumn
• North Winter
• given good
• assistance fortune

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The character Fú is a must!

• ? Fú (happiness)
• is pasted
• on the door

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The character Fú - happiness
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The character Fú - happiness
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The character Fú - happiness
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New Years Eve feast

• Chinese people attach great importance to New
  Years Eve or Spring Festival Eve.
• At that time, all family members eat dinner
  together.

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New Years Eve feast

• The meal is more luxurious than usual.
• Dishes such as chicken, fish cannot be excluded.

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New Years Eve feast
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New Years Eve feast
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Hóngbao - Red Packet

• On New Year, everyone dresses up.
• First they say Guò Nián Hao! (Happy New
  Year!) to extend greetings to their parents.
• Then each child will get Hóngbao with money in
  it as a New Year gift!

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Hóngbao - Red Packet
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Hóngbao - Red Packet
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Hóngbao - Red Packet
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Hóngbao - Red Packet
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Jiaozi - Dumplings

• People in north
• China will eat Jiaozi

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Jiaozi - Dumplings
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Jiaozi - Dumplings
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Jiaozi - Dumplings
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Jiaozi - Dumplings
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Jiaozi - Dumplings
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Jiaozi
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Making Jiaozi
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Why eating Jiaozi ?
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• In sound means bidding farewell to the old and
  ushering in the new
• Also, the shape of Jiaozi is like gold ingot
  from ancient China.

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Nián gao New Year cake

• Southern Chinese
• eat Nián gao.

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Nián gao New Year cake
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Nián gao New Year cake
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Nián gao New Year cake
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Nián gao New Year cake
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Nián gao New Year cake
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Nián gao New Year cake
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Why eating Nián gao ?

• nián year
• gao high / higher
• Nián gao is homophonic with
• higher and higher,
• one year after another

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Celebrations

• Burning fireworks!
• Lion dancing
• Dragon lantern dancing
• Temple fairs

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Guò Nián Hao!

• China has 56 ethnic groups.
• Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost
  the same day as the Han people, and they have
  different customs.