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TLC Family "Frozen Fireworks" - 0 views

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  • Fireworks are traditional Chinese New Year fodder -- in fact, the Chinese invented fireworks. Make your own "frozen fireworks" to celebrate the new year.
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Don't Push Your Luck, Celebrate Chinese New Year With Meaningful Foods - 0 views

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    According to Chinese tradition and, some say, superstition, certain foods can bring you luck, fortune and even fertility when eaten around the Chinese New Year. The widely celebrated holiday is so popular that some families go as far as decorating their homes with cherry blossoms and creating centerpieces of red luck money to bring fortunes and luck in the new year.
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TLC Family "Chinese New Year\'s Drum" - 0 views

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  • haiyun lu on 03 Jan 12
     
    This looks like a great activity we can show the 5th graders how to do it. Any taker?
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The Legend of Chinese New Year Red Envelopes - 0 views

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    myths of the red packets
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      Most of these are explained in detail on my other links
  • Many lanterns are made to reflect historical Chinese themes, and depict scenes from stories and legends that express traditional values. They are also made to represent the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac and heroic figures. These are only some examples. The variety of lanterns at the Lantern Festival is limitless.
  • The Lantern Festival is also popularly referred to as Chinese Valentine's Day
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  • It is an important practice to eat Tang Yuan during the Lantern Festival because they symbolize family reunion and unity, essential values of the celebration, and their shape is harmonious with the full moon.
  • During the 15 day celebration of the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, people make a fresh start, and set the tone for the upcoming year.
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  • The Chinese dragon represents wisdom, strength, benevolence, and good fortune. Invite your students to learn more about this symbol by creating a miniature version and by reading stories about dragons. Begin by passing out the Reproducible below. Have students decorate their dragons with bright colors and glitter. Next help kids to fold a piece of 8" x 11" paper in half vertically and cut along the fold. Accordion-fold each piece and join together to create the animal's body. Attach the head at one end and the tail at the other. Tape chopsticks to the head and tail. Use your puppets as props for a read aloud of A Time of Golden Dragons, by Song Nan Zhang (Tundra, 2000).
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Lucky Foods for the New Year - 0 views

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  • Addie Lerner on 03 Jan 12
     
    My Italian grandfather was known to eat a lot of strange things: pickled eels, tripe and anything slimy that would be considered disgusting to most children. For New Year's Day his favorite food was a giant gelatinous sausage called cotechino, cut into sections and smeared with mustard.
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China Lantern Festival, 2012 Chinese Lantern Festival: Customs, Activities, Glutinous R... - 0 views

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  • Falling on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Lantern Festival is the first significant festival after Spring Festival, so called because the most important activity during the night of the event is watching lanterns
  • it is regarded as the most recreational among all the Chinese festivals and a festival for appreciating the bright full moon, and family reunion.
  • including watching lanterns and fireworks, guessing lantern riddles, performing folk dances, and eating yuanxiao
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  • During the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD), Buddhism flourished in China. So in order to popularize Buddhism, one of the emperors gave an order to light lanterns in the imperial palace to worship and show respect for Buddha on the 15th day of the first lunar month. During the Tang (618 - 907), Song (960 - 1279), Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing (1644 - 1911) dynasties, lighting lanterns became a tradition for Chinese people.
  • Beginning from the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279), guessing lantern riddles is regarded as an indispensable part of the Lantern Festival
  • Lion Dance, and Walking on StiltsDerived from the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), the lion dance is an excellent traditional art that adds infinite fun to any celebration including the Lantern Festival
  • According to ancient custom, the lion is a symbol of boldness and strength that can protect people, so by performing the lion dance, everyone prays for an auspicious and happy life.
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Chinese New Year Lucky Red Envelopes for Kids - Red Envelopes for Chinese New Year - Ka... - 0 views

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    a site about making red packets
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    The Lunar New Year is determined by cycles of the moon and therefore the dates are movable, each new year commencing on the new moon which occurred in the late January or February of the Western Calendar. It is not the “Chinese New Year” but the “Lunar New Year” as the date is celebrated by many others besides the Chinese.
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Everything about 2012 Chinese New Year Day Celebration ,Activities Stories and Festivals - 0 views

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    Everything about Chinese New Year Festivals Chinese New Year Day Celebration, Decorations, Songs, Food, Parade, Activities, Stories, Horoscopes and Lantern Festivals 2012 Chinese New Year and Chinese Horoscope 2012 Chinese New Year Parade Schedule 2012 Chinese Zodiac Signs Year of Dragon 2012 Chinese Astrology Year of Dragon 2012 Year of Dragon begins on February 4, 2012 - Chinese New Year Day is on January 23, 2012 2012 Chinese Lantern Festival on February 6, 2012.
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The Kitchen god - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    The story of the Kitchen Gods
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  • The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.
  • One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddha's body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day
  • Guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift
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  • People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "Yuanxiao Festival."Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling
  • What's more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.
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  • The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon
  • One legend tells us that it was a time to worship Taiyi, the God of Heaven in ancient times. The belief was that the God of Heaven controlled the destiny of the human world. He had sixteen dragons at his beck and call and he decided when to inflict drought,storms, fafmine or pestilence upon human beings
  • Another legend associates the Lantern Festival with Taoism. Tianguan is the Taoist god responsible for good fortune. His birthday falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It is said that Tianguan likes all types of entertainment. So followers prepare various kinds of activities during which they pray for good fortune.
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  • Emperor Mingdi sent a scholar to India on a pilgrimage to locate Buddhist scriptures. After joumeying thousands of miles,the scholar finally returned with the scriptures. Emperor Mingdi ordered that a temple be built to house a statue of Buddha and serve as a repository for the scriptures. Followers believe that the power of Buddha can dispel darkness.So Emperor Mingdi ordered his subjects to display lighted lanterns during what was to become the Lantern Festival
  • Besides entertainment and beautiful lanterns, another important part of the Lantern Festival,or Yuanxiao Festival is eating small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour. We call these balls Yuanxiao or Tangyuan
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  • « Back to China Chinese New Year Songs Discover the Chinese selection of traditional songs that can be heard being sung during New Years celebrations. .attachment-featured-image { float:left; vertical-align:text-top; } #video-bar { clear:both; }The Chinese really like to go all out when the moon indicates that the year is over and the new one is on its way. The New Year in China is based on the cycle of the moon because they make use of the lunar calendar. Although it’s never a full moon when it’s the new year you will still be hearing some howling in the form of Chinese new year songs.
  • It is no surprise that they have a selection of Chinese New Year songs that have been composed for the purpose of celebrating the coming of the New Year
  • aim to capture the nationalistic spirit of the Chinese people on the one side whereas on the other you have songs that are trying to describe the Chinese perspective of life and the way that they live it.
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  • With regards to the songs that the Chinese people have composed in order to welcome the New Year, they are basically termed as an expression of happiness and love.
  • he songs are sung everywhere during the festive seasons from street corners to the insides of people’s homes. Families often gather together and engage in a chorus performance of traditional hit numbers for New Year.
  • he singing and dancing is also accompanied with some costume dressing. Well, the dressing up in costumes may seem strange to anyone from outside the Chinese culture but it is all part of the parcel of Chinese tradition
  • have been handed down the generations
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  • The most exciting and spectacular way of expressing gratitude for the dragon is the dragon dance.
  • The Chinese New Year dragon dance symbolizes the bringing of good luck and success in the coming year for all the human beings on earth
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  • the majority of people depend on agriculture for their livelihood, the timely arrival of rains is a necessity.
  • governors of rainfall.
  • The New Year in Chinatown ends with the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the month.
  • In the dragon dance, a team of dancers carry the image of dragon on poles. The lead dancers of the troupe lift, dip, thrust, and sweep the head which may display animated features controlled by a dancer. The dance troop mimics the supposed movements of this winged spirit in a wicked and undulating manner.
  • As a result, Chinese communities make every effort to have very long dragons dancing during the New Year.
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Chinese New Year's Celebration - Chinese Customs - 0 views

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  • Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays and is celebrated as the Spring Festival
  • The Chinese New Year is based on the Chinese Calendar which complies with the phases of the moon. According to this, Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Calendar
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  • Traditionally the festival is a family event, everybody travels back home to meet the family and to visit relatives and friends, a practice known as "new-year visits" (Chinese: 拜年; pinyin: bàinián).
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  • paper image or a picture of the deity hung throughout the year near the family's stove
  • Traditionally houses are cleaned on the 28th day (of the last month) of the (old) year, prior to the Chinese New Year
  • red trimmings are placed on doorways and windows to scare away the
  • monster Nian
  • This practice diverted from hanging peach-wood charms on doors, since peach-wood is considered to keep away ghosts and evil spirits and enhance immortality.
  • bamboo leaves are used to clean the house
  • Cleaning the house symbolises sweeping out any misfortune or traces of bad luck.
  • but new cloth symbolise a new start.
  • New cloth in the auspicious red colour are bought and will be worn for the first time in the early hours of the new year.
  • sweeping the house should be avoided- especially during the first three days-, since otherwise upcoming good luck would be swept out
  • as well a fresh start.
  • bad luck to wash one's hair during the first three days of the New Year as good fortune would be washed out.
  • as the fruit is considered to enhance abundance, prosperity, having children, and good health in the year to come.
  • to start a new year with unpaid debts
  • Lunar New Year is a time for settling debts.
  • a way to show respect and pay tribute to the departed souls.
  • as sharp instruments such as knives and scissors used for the preparation can be put away to avoid the 'cutting' effect of these.
  • is regarded to be bad luck on New Year's Day.
  • 12 animal signs for the years 2008 until 2020.
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    The following greetings are used during Chinese New Years. They often appear on the \fai\ \cheun\ that go up on people's doorposts as well. During New Years Chinese greet one another in a friendly way. While Chinese do not usually greet those they do not have a personal relationship with, Chinese New Years is an exception.
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    The Chinese like to greet each other with special phrases called " 吉祥話 “ (jí xiáng huà) during the Chinese New Year, . The term " 吉祥話 " (jí xiáng huà) literally means "lucky saying" or "lucky phrases", and it is usually said after the greeting " 新年快樂 “ (xīn nián kuài lè) , which means happy new year.
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