Chinese New Year

Since it almost the Chinese New Year, this week LS2 worked in pairs to write an explanation that tells people how Chinese New Year is celebrated, why people celebrate it, and the story behind the zodiac animals. This task was very different from my normal writing tasks. This is because I had to partner up with some from Mrs Anderson's writing group. I chose to go with Miki, since we work well together. This task was a bit hard because, I had to explain to Miki the definition of some advanced vocabulary, for example, 'auspicious'. It was fun sharing our ideas as we learnt new information together.

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What Is a Chinese New Year?

Did you know that the Chinese New Year is a very special festival or celebration for the people in the Chinese community. The Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and ends with the full moon 15 days later. The next Chinese New Year falls on Friday, February 16th 2018. During that time people lit up Lanterns. This happens at the end of the Chinese New Year on the 15th day at night. Most people decorate their houses using Red Couplets. Sometimes say Kung Hei Fat Choi to each other. The Kung Hei Fat Choi is the chinese meaning of a Happy New Year. There are many things related to Chinese New Year and we’ll see as we go on.

During the Chinese New Year people decorate their houses using red couplets, and red represents good fortune and happiness. These red couplets contains black or golden letters on a long red paper. gold represents wealth and auspicious. Each red couplets have poetries on them, and there are two red couplets on each side of the door and one on top and two diamond shaped red couplets in the  middle of the door.

There is an animal for every single year. They have Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. This is the year of the Dog. In the race the dog placed 11th There are some variety of dogs. There is a Wood dog, a gold dog, a fire dog, water dog and an earth dog. The earth dogs are honest, brave, loyal and Smart.

Usually in Chinese New Year people eat noodles. The noodles represents live long, however it’s very unlucky if you cut it. Chinese people also eat shrimps, and rolled eggs. The shrimp represents happiness. Finally, the rolled eggs represents rich in money and gold. This is because the rolled egg is shaped as a block of gold.

As we all know that the Chinese New Year is a very special festival or celebration for the people in the Chinese community. The Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and ends with the full moon 15 days later. This happens at the end of the Chinese New Year on the 15th day at night. Most people decorate their houses using Red Couplets. Sometimes say Kung Hei Fat Choi to each other. The Kung Hei Fat Choi is the Chinese meaning of a Happy New Year. This year we it’s the year of the dog.  These are most of the things about the Chinese New Year.