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CHINES

E NEW

YEAR

Sofia Salko, Urszula Andrejas, Ola Malara

Where is China

located?

• (^) China is located in eastern Asia.
• (^) It's the largest of all Asian countries.
• (^) It's the world's second-most- populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion.
• (^) The capital city of China is Beijing, also known as Peking.
• (^) China is divided into provinces.

When Chinese New Year takes place?

• (^) Annual 15-day Chinese

festival is defined as

the date of the second

new moon after the

winter solstice. But is

always somewhere in the

period from January 21st

to February 20th.

Preparing for the New Year

• (^) Preparations for the New Year begin a couple of weeks before the big day. Acording to the traditions, this is the time to clean the house, get hair cut, set off fireworks, pr epare food for the feast and make banners and decorations special for the New Year.

Dumplings

Spring Rolls

Nian Gao is a traditional

glutinous rice cake made of sticky rice, sugar, chestnuts, dates, and lotus leaves.

Sweet Rice Balls

Noodles

Fish

How do people celebrate Chinese New Year?

• (^) The New Year celebration is centred

around removing the bad and the old ,

and welcoming the new and the good. It's

a time to worship ancestors, exorcise

evil spirits and pray for good harvest.

• (^) The New Year is an important family

reunion occasion, so those who are

living or working far away would return

home prior to the holiday.

Chinese New Year Traditions

The main Chinese New Year activities include:

• (^) putting up decorations
• (^) offering sacrifices to ancestors
• (^) eating dinner with family on New Year's Eve
• (^) giving red envelopes and other gifts
• (^) firecrackers and fireworks
• (^) watching lion and dragon dances

Chinese New Year Superstition s

There are many things you

cannot do:

• (^) Don't sweep up on New Year's Day, otherwise you'll 'sweep all your luck away'.
• (^) Don't eat porridge for breakfast, otherwise you'll 'become poor in the upcoming year'.
• (^) Don't wash your clothes and hair (on New Year's Day), otherwise you'll 'wash fortune away'.

Why do people have Lion and Dragon dances on Chinese New Year?

• (^) Traditionally if anyone happened

to see any of the ‘Lucky Mascots’

on New Year's Day, they'd be very

lucky for the year to come. The

four ‘Lucky Mascots’ are Dragon,

Phoenix, Unicorn and Dragon

Turtle. They are fictional animals

either living in the sea or flying

in the sky.

Lunar New Year Lion Dance

A crowded Chinese train station at New Year