Chinese New Year

How Chinese New Year Is celebrated?

The famous Chinese New Year is celebrated around the world. It is celebrated with people

cleaning their homes for the start of spring. People around the world put up red posters

with poetic sentences on them and put them on their doors. Chinese New Year is also the

time where friends and family meet up and enjoy their time together.

Near the end of the holiday people light lanterns and either let them fly in the sky or on let

them float on top of water.  In the middle of the celebration people light fireworks and

firecrackers. People often give unmarried people and kids red envelopes with money inside.

At night people eat their dinner packed with lots of delicious foods. They celebrate with some

specific foods like Shrimp , Noodles and Egg Rolls. These three foods represent a long life,

happiness and gold bars. Foods that are common when eating on Chinese New Year is fish,

Wasabi, Kim chi, vegetables , rice and curry. Other cultures celebrate Chinese New Year

because of the special events that happen.

The tradition is also about 12 animals. These animals competed in a race which the Jade

emperor will chose its year for it to be celebrated. The recent year 2018 is the dog.

Chinese New Year is celebrated because a dragon would arrive on the new moon and

goes when the full moon comes up.

People celebrate Chinese New Year to remember the Chinese legend about the Mysterious

beast who would visited the town and scared the people in the village… But a old man

stumbled towards the village and told them about the beasts weakness. The colour red,

loud noises and more. The beast then left on the full moon never to visit again.

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This week LS2 started writing a explanation about Chinese New Year.  We all worked with a person in another writing group. It was fun working with other people other than peers I work with. Our first thoughts on writing about Chinese New Year was easy, but wasn't as expected. Instead it was quite hard finding out the truth and why it is celebrated. Although its not just celebrated in China but country's all over the world which surprised Brooklyn and I at first, but studying Chinese New Year made much more sense then before we learnt more about the famous tradition.