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Have You ever heard of the Chinese New year? I will tell you about it. These are the things you will hear, Food and their symbols, colors and their meanings, and the way they scare off Nian.
They scare away Nian (the monster of winter) by banging a huge drum. The drum supposedly will scare him. It will scare him with the loud bangs flood the streets of China. When it leaves it will take winter with it. That’s why they bang the drum. They also set of fire works and make a lot of noise help scare him off. The Nian is also scared of bright colors.
If you go to china during New Years you will immediately be surrounded by color. All the color is not just for the Nian. It also will give luck. If you see a poem on a door it will probably be written on Red paper asking for luck in the New Year. They put it on the door because that’s where the New Year will be coming in. Or if you see Gold decorations that means whoever’s decorations they are will be wealthy in the New Year. If someone has gold and red decorations up they will have a good business year.
Food also has symbols. If you have a moon shaped dumpling you will be happy and satisfied with the New Year. Or if you see a long noodle you should probably take it because the longer the noodle the longer life you will have. If you are a visitor they will offer you dried fruit, hard candy , or a orange. If they offer you one of these you will have a sweet future.
As you can see the Chinese celebrate New Years different than us. They have symbols and traditions, like opening their windows at midnight to let the New Year in and the old year out. We just bang things and shoot confetti. They are way more intense than us for the New Year.
A special holiday celebrated by millions of people around the world is Chinese New Year. The Chinese celebrate New Year in a lot of different ways. They celebrate it by using bright colors, enjoying foods with special meanings, and having special celebrations.
The Chinese celebrate New Year with bright colors. The use the color gold because it symbolizes wealth. The Chinese also use the color red for New Year’s celebrations because it means good luck. People hang red papers with poems on their doorways to try to get even more good luck.
The Chinese celebrate their New Year by eating foods that have special meaning to them. If you eat long noodles during the Chinese New Year, for example, they believe this will give you a long life. If you cook a lot of food to eat during this New Year, they believe you will have a lot to eat next year. They believe that if you give sweets to other people during the New Year celebration then you will have a sweet future.
The Chinese celebrate their New Year by “letting out the old year out and letting the new year in.” They do this by opening doors and windows. They also bring the New Year in by setting off fireworks which symbolizes chasing the Nian, the monster of winter out so that spring can come.
During the New Year celebration, Chinese children receive gifts. They get presents and red envelopes filled with money.
Chinese New Year has bright colors, foods with special meanings, and special celebrations. Chinese New Year is a holiday that is celebrated by Chinese people around the world each January.
The Chinese celebrate New Year, and I’m not talking about the January 1st New Year, I’m talking about the Chinese New Year. This New Year is specific to the Chinese culture. They eat many different varieties of foods, get new things, scare away the nian, let the New Year in, and decorate stuff with bright colors.
The Chinese eat many different varieties of foods that each have different meanings, for example, if a Chinese person gives somebody an orange, some dried fruit, or candy around Chinese New Years, it means that person will have a sweet future. They also believe that long noodles, mean long lives. So maybe they think that the longer noodles they have, the longer lives they will have.
The food that they eat might be many different colors. The Chinese like to decorate with bright colors. They decorate with red and gold. They use red and gold to decorate because, to them, red means lucky, and gold means wealth. I think they use these colors to symbolize that the New Year will be lucky and bring wealth.
The Chinese hang red banners with gold paint on them saying messages of good luck around the house by doorways. They also let the New Year in, and the old year out. They do this by opening all the windows and doors in their houses at exactly midnight. This is supposed to be like the old year flowing out of the house and the New Year flowing in.
Those are the many ways the Chinese celebrate the coming of the New Year. They are happy to have scared away the nian with fireworks and loud noises. They celebrate this event with new things and a new start. Three days of celebration follow this joyous event.
To chase away the winter and to invite the spring in friends and families come together to celebrate Chinese New Year. They celebrate in many different ways. These ways can be decorating with bright colors, to eating foods with special meanings, to getting new things.
One way the Chinese celebrate the New Year is by using bright colors. They hang up amazing lanterns and blossoms that light up the city. They usually use the colors red and gold. They use these colors because gold means wealth and red means luck. They also hang up red paper on the wall with good luck poems on them. The red and gold also promise to bring good business. So if you walk into China there might be a chance that you will see red and gold decorations on the company’s doors and windows.
Eating foods with special meanings bring good for the future. For example oranges, dried fruits and candy means a sweet future. Whole fish means that you will have plenty to eat for the New Year. Noodles means that you will live a long live. A crescent dumpling means that your family will be satisfied and happy. In China if you have more food it means that you will have more food for the next year. Basically all these foods mean you and your family will be happy for the New Year and for your whole life.
Presents and good wishes bring happiness to kids all over the world. Kids get presents from family and friends for the New Year. Kids get envelopes with good wishes and money inside of them. Boys and girls also get new clothes for the New Year. Kids love their new gifts and wishes. Everything is new for the New Year.
During the week of celebrating Chinese New Year is a holiday for bright colors, eating foods with special meanings and getting new gifts for the New Year. By the end of the week winter is gone and spring is finally here.
Near to spring, millions and millions of people in China celebrate their New Year like no other. They wish to scare Nian, the monster of winter, but they do it with bright colors, new things, and eating food with special meaning. The chinese celebrate the New Year with bright colors.The color gold respresents to bring wealth, and red represents luck, which is why many bussiness use these colors to decorate for the New Year, hoping to bring wealth in the year to come.The Chinese eat many with special meaning.If you ate a whole fish it would symbolizes you would have enough to eat next year, a cressen dumplins would symbolize sastified.The chinese let the old year put and to let the New year in!At 12:00pm the chinese open three doors and windows to let the old year out and invite the New Year in. Set of fire crackers and make as much noise as they can to scare Nian away.In conclusion Spring has come and the Chinese have sucessfully scared Nian away. It is in this tradition that the Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout the world.
Near to spring, millions and millions of people in China celebrate their New Year like no other. They wish to scare Nian, the monster of winter, but they do it with bright colors, new things, and eating food with special meaning. The chinese celebrate the New Year with bright colors.The color gold respresents to bring wealth, and red represents luck, which is why many bussiness use these colors to decorate for the New Year, hoping to bring wealth in the year to come.The Chinese eat many with special meaning.If you ate a whole fish it would symbolizes you would have enough to eat next year, a cressen dumplins would symbolize sastified.The chinese let the old year put and to let the New year in!At 12:00pm the chinese open three doors and windows to let the old year out and invite the New Year in. Set of fire crackers and make as much noise as they can to scare Nian away.In conclusion Spring has come and the Chinese have sucessfully scared Nian away. It is in this tradition that the Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout the world.
“Boom, crash,” those are the sounds of fireworks going off. These sounds scare away Nian, the winter monster. Bright colors are everywhere. People are eating meaningful food. Every house is letting out the old year and taking in the new. This is the Chinese New Year, Nian has ended.
Nian, the winter monster is scared away with bright colors and decoration. All the bright decorations turn the streets of China into tiny clusters of sun. Poems are written in red and hung on doors to bring good luck to a house. Red and gold are everywhere, especially businesses, to bring good business in the New Year. Red symbolizes luck and gold has the meaning of wealth.
Food also has meaning in China. Eating long noodles means a long life. A whole fish means you will have plenty to eat. Chinese do have plenty to eat on New Year because it means more for next year. Dumplings are common things at the table because they are shaped like gold nuggets in the old time, each one means satisfaction and wealth. But favorite of all is sweet foods such as oranges, dried fruit, and candy. Together, the three mean a sweet new year.
Chinese also make their new year sweeter by letting out the old year and bringing in the new one. Ringing bells signal the New Year and then fireworks go off to ensure Nian has left. And at exactly midnight, everyone opens all their windows and doors to shove out the old year and embrace the New Year.
Embracing the New Year is also done by using and receiving new things. Kids get fresh, new, and crisp money in red envelopes. People wear the new clothes they received to show that a new year brings new things.
As the cold year fades away, Nian has his final days. As fireworks die down, bright colors fade, and big feasts come to an end; Chinese take in the New Year with ecstasy. Although the celebration spirit is over it still lives in people, waiting for next year.
At the end of the winter,near to spring the Chinese celebrate their New Year like no other. They wish to scare away Nian,the monster of winter,but they don't do it with nothing.With the help of bright colors, eating food and shoving the old year out. By scaring
Nian away the New Year can be invited in to stay.
The beating of the drums rushed the New Year in,and Nian out. At exactly midnight here we might be watching the ball drop. But in China they open windows and doors to let the old year out and welcome the new one in. The Chinese wish to let the old year out, and that way the new one can replace it. While the windows an doors are opened, fireworks and firecrackers are set off. The noises of the fireworks and firecrackers help to scare off Nian.
Through the streets are a parade of lights and colors. People set off bright fireworks, to scare off Nian and to add a sparkle to the night. Lanterns of the colors of luck and wealth,red and gold, make the streets and people joyous. Firecrackers are helped to illuminate the sky and to help scare Nian away with the loud noises and the beautiful bright colors.
All through the streets and houses are sweet and savory fumes. People welcome family and friends in with orange slices, delicious candies, and dried fruits, all for an sweet future. But the sweets aren't all. Next comes the savory food like; 1 whole fish, for an full-of-food future. They eat long noodles for an long life. The hosts serve crescent-shaped-dumplings, there for the guests will be satisfied for the New Year. children make dandy deserts for their friends and their family to enjoy.
By inviting the New Year in,and shoving the old out,spring has come.As the streets were illuminated and the aroma of food is fading, Chinese are trying on new clothes, and sharing new feelings and embraces, Nian has left the Chinese, and was replaced by spring. All over the Chinese celebrate this unique and special celebration.
Around the world, tons of holidays are celebrated. One of these unique festive holidays is called Chinese New Year. During Chinese New Year, the people of China celebrate with bright colors, loud noises and foods with special meanings.
One way that the Chinese celebrate new is with eating foods with special meanings. One food that the Chinese eat are crescent shaped dumplings. They are special because symbolize gold nuggets, and the color gold means wealth. A second food the Chinese eat on Chinese New Year are long noodles. The long noodles are special because they mean a long life. Another food the Chinese eat are red hard boiled eggs. The eggs are special because red symbolizes luck.
Another way the Chinese celebrate is by decorating with bright colors. One color the Chinese use is red. The Chinese use the color red to make poems asking for luck and wealth. Another thing the Chinese do for decoration on Chinese New Year is they write on red paper with gold ink to write luck poems.
A third thing the Chinese do for Chinese New Year is they let the old year out. The Chinese do this by opening all their doors and windows exactly at midnight. They also set off fire crackers and make loud noises.
Bringing in the new year successfully means that the Nian (symbolizing winter) has left and spring is on its way.
When spring comes and winter ends a celebration for the Chinese begins. It’s a new season, a new time, a new… Year! Millions of people come together from all around the world to the celebration of the Chinese New Year. So come on, don’t you want to learn about a holiday that lasts up to seven days? Come and see the most celebrated Chinese holiday.
The streets in china come to life on this special holiday with colors that mean good things. (Gold=wealth Red =luck) One part of this culture is on New Year’s to use red envelopes with gold writing. The Chinese send these envelopes to each other. Also the restraints are decorated with red and gold to attract more customers.
Color is not the only thing with meaning. The feasts on the Chinese have many meanings too. For instance candy and oranges which means sweet future. One of the meals they will eat is fish which means plenty to eat. Also a side part of the meal… Noodles! They mean long life.
And one of the last things they do is let the old year out and the New Year in. They will open doors in windows until they know that the old year is out and the New Year is in. They then get new clothes on and watch fireworks.
Once the celebration has begun it is all fun. People receive presents and give presents. It is such a fun time for the Chinese it looked so fun I wanted to go. Thanks for seeing this exciting holiday if you have anything more to tell I’d loved to hear it.
The Chinese celebrate New Year differently than they did before. They used to celebrate it for 15 days, but now they celebrate it for one week. They also celebrate the New Year with bright colors, letting the old year out, letting the new year in, and foods that have special meanings.
For Chinese families who eat foods with special meanings, they eat eggs that are died red. They also believe that eating long noodles means that you will have a longer life. They make and eat moon-shaped dumplings that mean that their families will have satisfaction.
Red means luck and gold means wealth. After the New Year, children and adults wear new cloths, play with new toys, and receive little envelopes that have crisp, new money inside. These envelopes are red and the writing is in gold. The person who opens the envelope will have good luck and wealth in the future. All of these new things are a sign of the New Year.
Another sign of the New Year is when the Chinese let the old year out and welcome the new year in. They do this by, exactly at midnight, open all of the windows and doors in their houses. People hear fireworks and firecrackers exploding outside, they hear their neighbors banging on drums, and they hear a huge golden bell ringing like it never rang before.
After the New Year, the Chinese live on. The Nian is scared away, the Chinese wear new clothes, play with new toys, and live long, lucky and wealthy lives. All of the Chinese wait until the next year to have another really fun New Year.
The last week of winter, right before spring, the Chinese celebrate their new year. Although we celebrate a new year as well, with the ball dropping and staying up until midnight, theirs is very different. They celebrate with colors that light up the streets and enough food to feed the lion/dragon monster Nian (Nian represents winter) which they chase away with the things he hates most; loud noises and bright colors and lights. They also give each other presents of new things for the new year.
They decorate with many bright colors to scare away Nian but there are two that they use most often. They use gold which represents wealth and bringing wealth for the new year and red which represents luck for the new year. They write poems, called couplets, asking for luck on red paper and hang them in the door way where the new year will enter. They also make hard boiled eggs and dye them red, but eggs are not the only celebratory food they make.
They cook a lot of food for the new year feast because the more food they make the more food they are said to have in the year to come. They make long noodles for a long life along with crescent shaped dumplings for a happy and satisfied family. If they make a whole fish it means they will have plenty to eat that year. If you go to someone’s house over the new year they would give you dried fruit or candy to wish you a sweet future.
Friends and family alike the Chinese wish everyone a happy new year. They give kids new money and clothes. They want everyone to enjoy themselves, even the figurative “New Year.” They welcome the new year by opening the windows and doors at midnight and letting the old year out and the new year in.
Now that the new year is here they are excited to celebrate next year. They will put out the lights and bang the drums again. They will make more food and give more presents. Then they will welcome yet another new year. But after December 31 at midnight the celebration is over in America, but in China they celebrate for 3 more days.
We all celebrate holidays; Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and many more. All these holidays are special to us, as other holidays are special to other cultures. In China, they celebrate Chinese New Year. Like us, they have traditions that include decorating with bright colors, eating foods that have special meanings, letting the old year out, and the new one in. Celebrated by millions around the world, the Chinese New Year lasts about a week, but the spirit of this holiday lives throughout the whole year! By letting the old year out and the New Year in, the Chinese hope for wealth and luck in the coming year.
One way the Chinese celebrate New Year is by ushering the old year out and inviting the New Year in. One way they do this is by opening all their doors and windows at exactly midnight on New Year’s Eve. They do this to let the New Year float into their homes. They also congratulate each other with red envelopes that have good wishes inside them, oranges, and dried fruit. Children are given certain quantities of money along with candy in hopes of a sweet future.
Not only do celebrators want a sweet future, but they want sweet food as well. Ranging from candy to feasts, the Chinese provide as much food as they can in hopes to fill their dining tables. This is kind of like a Chinese Thanksgiving feast, except each food has its own special meaning. If you want a long life, you should reach for the long noodles (and make sure you don’t cut up your spaghetti!), whole fish mean there will be plenty to eat, and crescent-shaped dumplings mean your family will be satisfied and joyful. To symbolize luck, eggs are hard-boiled and painted red, and there is always the saying that the more food you prepare, the more you will have next year.
As well as food, bright colors and decorations are one of the many traditions the Chinese have to celebrate New Year. Why? In Chinese culture, there is a large beast that symbolizes winter; the Nian. Nian is afraid of bright colors and loud sounds, so the Chinese decorate their homes and businesses with bright colors, lanterns, and banners, determined to chase away the New Year and welcome wealth to their businesses. Included in this, people set off fireworks. In Taiwan, commoners “paint” with the firecrackers, kind of like the 4th of July! This, my friend, is Chinese New Year.
Among the many holidays celebrated around the world is Chinese New Year. Starting on the first full moon of the year, the Chinese attempt to scare off Nian with bright colors, loud sounds, and foods. They embrace the spirit of the New Year by distributing new things to one another, and eating foods with special meanings. These traditions may only be 7 days long, but, like us, there are many other holidays to follow.
The Chinese New Year
By: Key Deer
Ready, set go! Chase the Nian (winter) if you want to let the New Year in. You’ve celebrated this holiday before, but have you listened to the beating of the drums pumping and pounding through the streets? How about decorating your home with gossamer gold and bright red? The Chinese cherish the upcoming spring by frightening away the Nian (a metaphor for winter). Walk on the streets and you’ll smell the mouth-watering scents glide through the air. Foods represent unique, varied meanings that contribute to the delectable feast.
Did you let the New Year in? Exactly at midnight Chinese people all over the world urge the former year out and encourage the long-awaited New Year in by opening their windows and doors. A like to Times Square and the ball drop, a bell rings out, on the dot, at the end of night. The bell marks the beginning of a momentous week. Sizzle, pop, crack, fireworks explode throughout China chasing away the past. Banging drums along with firecrackers, makes the Nian run away. And light-a-blaze old pictures so you’ll have space for new memories.
Some new memories you’ll acquire if you join this captivating festival, is enhancing your home with gold, the color of wealth. Hanging the color gold symbolizes great riches for a luxurious New Year. But that’s not the only meaningful color to have in your house; red will make you especially fortunate in the year to come. Combine these bright colors together and business is sure to pick-up. You will see crisp, red, entrancing, paper fluttering on the doorways of each home telling of poems that are said to bring good luck.
Red paper isn’t the only entrancing part of this event, the food is equally inviting. The aroma of food wafts and swirls around your nose and throughout the entire street. Except some foods are different than you’d expect. The eggs, for example, are hard-boiled and then changed into red-dyed ovals of good fortune. Their feast includes all different foods with various meanings. Want to live longer? Make sure to find long noodles, it will lead you to a longer life. Visitors and guests are offered delicacies such as oranges, dried fruits, and candy to ensure a sweet future. Another food that conveys meaning is crescent-shaped dumplings that are expected to leave families with satisfaction and happiness.
As the satisfaction of the Chinese New Year spirals to a close after embracing a week of festivity, three days of celebration follows. The Nian has left, chased away by enthusiastic people who wished spring to come. Decorations of red and gold glimmer in the air as fireworks fade. Slowly, people shut their windows and doors. New clothing and smooth money has been shared. Aromas of food have demolished to faint wafts of smell. And it is in this fashion that the Chinese celebrate their New Year tradition.
The Chinese celebrate New Year in many different ways. They celebrate for 15 days, when the new moon comes. They have bright colors, good foods with different meanings, red envelopes with new money in them, dancing, decorations, and messages for good luck!
The Chinese celebrate New Year with bright colors and loud noises. The Nian, (年兽) the monster of winter, was scared of bright color and loud noises. Red is very lucky in china, and gold symbolizes wealth. The Chinese hang red signs with gold Chinese Characters. The Nian was scared of the old fireworks. The old fireworks were bamboo tubes that exploded and made a loud bang. Now they have normal, colorful fireworks.
They also ate colorful foods with different meanings. A whole fish means satisfaction, long noodles mean long life, and hard boiled eggs were died red, the lucky color. Crescent shaped dumplings were very good. The more food you make, the more food you will have next year. They gave visitors oranges, dried fruit and candy to make sure of a sweet future.
Oranges and candy might make sure of a sweet future, but not as sweet as opening your doors and windows at exactly midnight. Imagine the fireworks and the people when you push open your bedroom window.
The Chinese have many different ways to celebrate New Year. The loud noises, bright colors, all the food, and letting the New Year in, is only some of the things the Chinese do to celebrate. The new moon symbolizes that the next 15 days will be happy, lucky, and much more!
The morale in the streets of China is high with anticipation as the people admire the decorations in the streets and breathe in the scent of a feast being prepared. Every year, when the new moon comes, the Chinese celebrate their New Year. They have many symbolic and interesting things on their New Year. Everybody has a great time! The Chinese celebrate the New Year many different ways.
The Chinese preparation for the New Year involves decorating everywhere with bright colors in many different shapes and sizes. They mainly use two colors - red for good luck and gold for wealth. They want luck and wealth in the new year. But the decorations stretch far beyond the streets - people in businesses, houses and other buildings decorate with bright colors to have luck and wealth and to scare away Nian, the monster of winter who hates bright colors.
When the Chinese aren't trying to scare away Nian or decorating, they are feasting. Different foods mean different things. For example, oranges, dried fruits and candy mean that you will have a sweet future. Eating a whole fish means that there will be plenty of food to have in the new year. Long noodles mean that you will have a long life. And finally, dumplings shaped like crescents mean that your family will be satisfied and happy. People in China eat these foods many times in the year, but the foods have a special meaning on New Year's.
Their New Year doesn't stop there - that's why it's called a NEW year. The Chinese celebrate their New Year with new things - for example, kids wear new clothes, and they get new presents. They also open all their windows at midnight to let the old year out and to invite the New Year in to start new. They are also letting Nian out so spring can come, but they can't do it by opening windows. Nian hates loud noises, so the Chinese bang drums and set off fireworks and firecrackers to make sure that they have spring and a happy and prosperous New Year.
The festival of the Chinese New Year is one of the biggest celebrations in the world. The New Year is filled with happy wishes. Each year at the rising of the new moon, the Chinese get ready to bring enjoyment to the streets and homes of China.
The Chinese celebrate the New Year in many different ways some of these ways are with bright colors, new things and letting the old year out by eating food with special meanings.
The Chinese celebrate by eating a lot they eat long noodles to live long lives, dumplings, dried fruit and eggs that are either hard boiled or painted.
They decorate with bright red lanterns. Red symbolizes luck, which is why many businesses use red to decorate for the New Year hoping to bring luck in the year to come.
At midnight people open all of their doors and windows to let out the old year and in the New Year. People set off fireworks and firecrackers. They bang drums and make loud noises. They do all of this to try to scare away Nian (winter).
Parents give gifts and red envelopes that have money in them to the kids. They honor ancestors on the New Year they visit people go to parades specials and shows. For the New Year they get and do new things.
The Chinese have a lot of fun on the New Year by decorating with bright colors, new things, all of the food and letting the old year out and the New Year in. During the celebration everyone has fun and is happy.
The Chinese culture celebrates the New Year in many different ways. There are bright colors, loud noise and foods with special meanings. They also have a way to let the old year out and to let the new year in.
At this time there are bright colors everywhere lighting up the streets. There are bright red and gold lanterns. The color red symbolizes luck and the color gold symbolizes wealth. An owner of a business will hang and decorate their businesses with these colors for a good wealthy year. There are also fireworks to light up the streets.
When the fireworks start that means you its time to let the old year out and to let the new year in. To let the old year out and to put the new year in the Chinese open their windows and doors at midnight on New Year's Eve. At this exact time people will set off fireworks and fire crackers. This helps keep away Nian, the monster for winter and the old year. Nian is scared of loud noises and bright colors. To help keep the Nian away you would also bang on drums.
Also at this time the Chinese would eat foods that had special meanings. The foods that they ate were:
Dried fruit, oranges, candies, a whole fish, long noodles and crescent dumplings.
The dried fruit, oranges and candies meant that you would have a sweat future. A whole fish meant that you would have plenty to eat in the coming year. Long noodles meant that you would have long lives. And long crescent dumplings meant that your family would be satisfied and happy. And always remember the more you eat the more food you'll have the next year.
The Chinese have a very special way of celebrating the New Year. they don't just spend time with families and at parties, they have a whole celebration. It's in this tradition that the Chinese New Year is celebrated.
It is the end of winter and the Chinese are getting ready for the New Year. The Chinese celebrate the New Year in many different ways. They have bright colors special foods with meanings and letting the old year out and the New Year in and new things.
Bright colors are a way to celebrate the New Year. The Chinese Coors are red and gold so they use them to decorate. Red means Luck and gold means Wealth. Businesses use these colors to decorate the store because next year they hope to have luck and wealth. They also use red to write lucky poems. Red and gold lanterns, decorations and blossoms promise to bring good business. They celebrate and make noises not to just have fun but to scare Nian (winter monster).
During the Chinese new year they have foods with special meanings Long noodles meant that you would have a long life. Fish means that there is plenty to eat. If you make lots of food that would mean that there will be more food next year. And dumplings mean that the family is happy and satisfied with their life.
Inviting the New Year in and old one out means scaring Nian off and telling winter goodbye they open the windows and doors to let the old year out. They let spring come in at exactly midnight. They make lots of music one for scaring Nian and to just have fun. They love to decorate the street with bright lights.
The Chinese travel to be with their family and to eat celebrating and many other ways their hearts are filled with happiness knowing that spring are to come. This holiday has many traditions that the Chinese follow.
This year on January 23rd, 2012, families will come together to celebrate the Chinese New Year. They celebrate by preparing great foods, decorating with bright colors, and letting the New Year in. They celebrate the New Year to scare the monster, Nian away.
Great smells waft from the kitchens as prepare the celebratory dinners for the New Year. Like the colors, their foods have meanings, too. Dumplings are made in crescent shapes to signify the crescent moon. Oranges, dried fruit, and candy means that you will have a sweet future. A whole fish symbolizes wealth and long noodles mean you will have a long life. Having a great dinner means they will have plenty to eat in the coming year. Meanwhile, people all over are decorating the streets and their houses.
Bright colors illuminate the streets of China to celebrate the New Year and scare off Nian. They celebrate by hanging red and gold lanterns on the walls and on the streets. They use the colors red and gold because red means luck and gold means wealth. That’s why they are used in daily life. People hang poems with red and gold writing on them around their doors to hope for a Good New Year when they let the New Year in.
A hush falls over the families at midnight as they open their doors and windows to welcome in the New Year and let the old year and Nian out. Along with the New Year, kids receive presents, new clothes and even new, crisp money to signify that it’s a new year. That’s when the celebrations begin.
People pour out of their doors onto the street to celebrate. People come with fireworks and firecrackers. People try to make noise by banging on items. It is believed that loud sounds scare off Nian. Dancers fill the streets, too. They come dressed as Nian and do a special dragon dance in which there are at least two people in it. Festivities fill the night
There are great smells, bright colors, new clothes, loud noises, cheers, and most importantly, a new year. The Chinese New Year is filled with joy. It’s not the new presents or special foods that makes Chinese New Year what it is, it’s spending time with friends and family that counts as they await and celebrate the New Year.
How the Chinese Celebrate New Year
Every culture has a holiday that is important to them. For the Chinese, New Year is very special. Those who celebrate visit their families, even if they live far away. Bright colors and gorgeous decorations surround all of China. You can't go to a place without them. Smells waft from the kitchens that are baking yummy food. Fireworks go off into big, flashing sparkles of color, and there is plenty to eat.
Food is passed around the table. It is said that the more food you eat, the more you will have next year, so every family's table is full. Families eat a big meal together and all of their food has a meaning that is important to them. Special-made crescent-shaped dumplings symbolize being satisfied and happy. An entire fish means there will be plenty to eat next year. Long noodles mean you will live a long life. Oranges, dried fruits, and candy are given to visitors who wish for a sweet future. They even have dyed bright red hard boiled eggs!
Bright colors are everywhere-but there is mostly red and gold. Like most holidays, Chinese New Year has special colors. They are important because red symbolizes luck, and gold symbolizes wealth. Flashing golds and bright reds are in every nook and cranny. Decorations, lanterns, and hand-made blossoms are put around, not only because they are pretty, but also for good business. Poems asking for luck are written on red paper and hung on doorways, where the new year is said to come in.
The old year comes out, and the new comes in. At midnight on New Year's Eve, when it is very dark and quiet outside, celebrators simultaneously open up their doors and windows to let out the old year. They have bright lights and colors. Also, there are fireworks, and people bang drums to scare off the Nian, a scary monster that symbolizes winter. They scare it away so spring will come. The Chinese wrap up gifts for the children to give to them, hoping it is what they wanted.
And that wraps up the New Year celebrations. But they are still not over. Three more days are used to celebrate the joyous holiday. Children are handed out scarlet envelopes with money inside. New clothes are worn, and the lanterns still don't dim for a second. Bells ring of the New Year, and the Chinese are ready.
We all celebrate holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving etc. But China had a different way to celebrate New Years. They have traditions like they get new things to start fresh. Also different foods have different meanings. Millions of people around the world celebrate Chinese New Years.
Millions of people around the world celebrate the Chinese New Year by decorating with bright colors. The color gold is said to bring you wealth. Red is said to bring you luck. People would write pomes on red paper and hang them on their doors asking for luck in the New Year.
They celebrate by eating. They eat red hard boiled eggs for good luck. Different foods have different meanings. If you have long noodles that means you will live long. If you have a whole fish that means you will have lots of food in the New Year.
At 12:00 P.M. they would let the old year out and bring the New Year in. They would open all the windows and doors to let the old year out. They would make loud noises to scare Nian away.
When the New Year comes Nian (winter) leaves and spring arrives.
In the New Year people get cloths and presents to start fresh in the New Year. In this tradition The Chinese New year is celebrated.
Millions of people celebrate Chinese New Year in China and around the world. They celebrate the Chinese New Year for what used to be 15 days but is now a week. They celebrate in many ways. Some of those ways to celebrate are that they eat special foods, celebrate with new things and decorate in bright colors.
Bright colors light up the streets and houses of China to celebrate the New Year. They use bright colored lanterns and signs. Poems written in gold on red paper are hung on entrance ways, where the New Year will come. Red brings luck and gold brings wealth.
To have a wealth of food, you should prepare a giant meal because the more you prepare now the more you will have next year. To make sure of this, you should eat whole fish because that ensures that you have plenty to eat. Long noodles mean that you will have a long life. Crescent shaped dumplings mean you will be happy and satisfied. Sweet food like candy, fried foods, and oranges mean you will have a sweet future.
You can ensure a sweet future by ushering the old year out and the new one in. Just when it officially becomes the New Year they open their windows and doors to invite the New Year in and the old one out. To celebrate the New Year’s arrival the Chinese buy new things. They buy clothes and give new presents. They also give new good money in red envelopes.
With the New Year in and the old one out, the celebrating with fireworks, food, and luminous colors is now over. The Chinese embrace and enjoy the New Year. Their new thing will bring happiness. It is this tradition of celebrating the New Year that is special to them.
It’s the end of January and it seems like everyone’s settled down from New Years. Not everyone. The Chinese New Year is celebrated by millions of people around the world. But how do they celebrate it? They celebrate with bright colors, foods with special meanings, letting the old year out and the New Year in, and new things.
Lots of people love to celebrate the New Year by decorating with bright colors, especially red and gold. Red represents luckiness, and gold represents wealth. They use red paper to write good luck poems. They decorate with bright red lanterns and blossoms. From all the decorating they might work up an appetite. Good they have lots of foods to celebrate with.
People who celebrate have special foods on this special holiday. Oranges, dried fruit and candy promise a sweet future. If you have long noodles, rumor has it you’ll live a long life. A whole fish will promise plenty to eat in the New Year, and crescent dumplings promise happiness and satisfactory in the New Year. The more food you make, the more you’ll have for the New Year.
Whoever celebrates this holiday makes sure that the old year doesn’t lag behind. At midnight, everyone opens his or her windows and doors to be extra sure the New Year comes and the old year goes away. They also make a lot of noise by using firecrackers and fireworks to scare off Nian, or winter. They write good luck poems and hang them by the door because that is where the New Year enters. Speaking of new, that’s another way to celebrate.
People celebrate the New Year with new things. The children get presents and also red envelopes with money and wishes inside. Everyone gets new clothes for the New Year. New, new, new!
With all these new things, the Chinese New Year is sure to be enjoyable to everyone. Bright colors, great foods, letting the old year out and the New Year in and new things all make this great holiday better. The first new moon of the year celebration is great for people all around the world.
The Chinese New Year
There are millions of very different holidays around the world, one of the most festive of all is the Chinese New Year. It is a weeklong holiday in February. The purpose of this holiday is to usher out the old year and invite the new one into your home with a fresh, new start. It is celebrated by billions around the world and has a special meaning to those who do celebrate it.
This is one of the most festive holidays in the Chinese year. There are tons of bright colors dancing through the street, there are blossoms and lanterns. The lanterns are either in simple shapes or in complex figures like the animals of the zodiac. Most of the lanterns are in red and gold; red for luck and gold for wealth. These two colors are super special to the Chinese and you will see them everywhere, all year around. Shops are decorated with colorful banners, everything is in luminous colors.
Even the foods are colorful and have special meanings. Eggs are hard boiled and painted a red hue. Crescent shaped dumplings symbolize a happy and satisfied family and long noodles symbolize a long life, so if you want to live a long life head straight for the noodles! (They’re probably are delicious too!)A whole fish stands for plenty food in the coming year and so does a table piled up with tasty foods! Oranges, dried fruit, and candy are given to guests ensure them a sweet future.
To move forward into the future, the old year is shown the door and the New Year is welcomed in at exactly midnight. People set off firecrackers and fireworks, bang on immense drums and flash brilliant colors to scare away the Nian, a monster that symbolizes winter and has long been known for showing up in Chinese festivals. Nian is afraid of bright hues and loud noises, he is warded off so that spring can come.
To welcome in spring the Chinese start fresh with new things. Everyone wears their new articles of clothing, presents are distributed and red envelopes with new, clean, fresh from the press money in them are passed around to a multitude of people. This holiday has special meaning to all that celebrate this festive occasion. Nian is scared away until next year and has left behind happy hearts and people willing to start off a New Year with good things to look forward to.
When the first new moon of the year comes, many people all over the world celebrate the Chinese New Year. The celebration traditionally lasts for 15 days, but they now only celebrate for a week. There are a lot of was that the Chinese New Year is celebrated. They celebrate with bright lights and loud noises, eating foods with special meanings, and they let the old year out and the New Year in.
Streets are illuminated with bright lights and loud noises to scare away Nian, the monster of winter. They decorate the streets with bright lanterns. The color red symbolizes luck and the color gold symbolizes wealth. If you want to have wealth in the New Year, you decorate your house with gold. Another tradition is to write good luck poems on red paper. They also use fireworks to scare away Nian.
Another way they celebrate is by eating foods with special meanings. One tradition is that if you make a lot of food for the New Year, then you will have more food for the New Year. You give guests dried fruits and oranges to wish them a sweet future. Having a whole fish to eat also symbolizes more food for the New Year.
When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, Everyone opens their doors to let the old year out and the New Year in. Outside, People are making noise setting off firecrackers and fireworks. They are chasing Nian away. Nian is afraid of loud noises and bright lights.
Over the 7 day celebration, Nian has left and the New Year is here. The bright lights and the noise has scared away Nian. Winter has left, and spring has just begun.
Once a year the Chinese come together for the celebration of a lifetime. They gather with their families for this celebration. They open their windows to welcome it in. They also sweep away the bad luck. This celebration is the Chinese New Year.
The bright vivid conquer Chinas streets. Some colors have different meanings, gold symbolizes wealth and red symbolizes luck. They decorate with lanterns and decorations. The decorations are red and gold because they want luck and wealth in the New Year. They also use red paper to write poems and hang them on their doors.
They also eat foods with special meanings too! Oranges, dry fruit, and candy are sweet do they mean have a sweet New Year. Long noodles symbolize a long life. If you have a whole fish at your dinner table that means you will have a lot of food for the New Year. Also crescent dumplings symbolize satisfied and happiness for the family.
New for the New Year. Everyone gets new clothes for the New Year. Children get presents, red envelopes with new crisp money and good wishes inside. It’s also red for luck.
The Nian (winter) has left the New Year is here. They celebrate with bright colors, foods, and fireworks. It is in this tradition that the Chinese New Year is celebrated.
Every 12 months on the first full moon of the year the Chinese celebrate. Millions of people join together for food, new things, letting the old year out and just to be with friends and family. To the Chinese a New Year is a new beginning.
The Chinese begin the New Year by pushing the old year out. To let the old year out and the New Year in, at midnight the Chinese open all of their doors and windows. They set off fireworks and firecrackers to scare away the monster Nian (old year). The loud thumping of drums can also scare away Nian.
A great way to start a new beginning is to buy new things. The children get lots of presents and red envelopes. The red envelopes have money inside of them. Red also symbolizes luck in Chinese. That is why people give red envelopes instead of other colored envelopes. During Chinese New Year there is lots of shopping. The Chinese shop for new clothes, toys and even get new haircuts. Sometimes during the New Year people even buy new houses.
Eating is another fun way to celebrate the New Year. In Chinese different foods have different meanings. During the New Year the Chinese eat lots of oranges, dried fruit and candy because they all symbolize good future. Long noodles are also a very common food because long noodles mean that you will have a long life. Dumplings mean that your family will be very happy. The Chinese also believe that the more food you make, the more food you will have for the year to come.
I would not be surprised if most of the Chinese ended the New Year feeling rather sick. The food they have must be amazing though. With all of the new things they get and fireworks they get to watch I would not mind celebrating our New Year the way they celebrate theirs.
The Chinese celebrate New Year every year. By using bright colors to symbolize foods and letting out the old year and bringing the New Year in Many different ways with new things.
We start celebrating the Chinese New Year with bright colors. We decorate with bright lanterns and blossoms. We also hang poems on our doorway to bring luck in on the New Year.
Chinese celebrate the New Year with new things like red envelops with money in it. Also by receiving new presents. We get new clothes for the New Year. When we put the new clothes on for the New Year we know the New Year began.
We eat lots of food on any holiday but this is a holiday we eat food that symbolizes life. Dumplings mean crest shape and full moon. Long noodles mean longer lives and whole fish means plenty to eat this year.
This is how Chinese people celebrating the Chinese new year in all many different ways and different foods not only in Asia but all over the world.
The Chinese New Year
The Chinese celebrate the New Year in many ways. They party with lanterns, fireworks and bright colors. Millions of people from all over the world get together to enjoy the Chinese New Year. The Chinese get new things to play with and wear to start the New Year. Also, they celebrate with many colors and foods that mean many different things. This is how the Chinese celebrate the New Year.
To start the New Year the Chinese have a lot of food. They eat hard boiled eggs, which they dye red. They also eat long noodles, which represent long lives. Other foods that the Chinese eat that are important are a whole fish, which means plenty to eat, and crescent dumplings, which mean satisfied and happy. These foods have many shapes and colors.
Colors also mean many different things. Red means luck and gold means it brings wealth. Also, the Chinese hang poems above their doorways written in red marker on gold paper, asking for luck.
The Chinese have other traditions along with their food traditions and color traditions. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, they open the doors and windows, wear bright colors and bang on drums to scare Nian away. Nian is the spirit of winter, which the Chinese try to frighten so spring can come. Another tradition the Chinese have is that they honor the oldest person in the family and the kids get presents and envelopes with money inside. These are the traditions that the Chinese have.
China used to celebrate the holiday for 15 days but then it was reduced to a week. People eat many foods, decorate with many bright colors and get a lot of new things to play with. They make lots of noise and wear bright colors to scare away Nian, the winter spirit. This is how the Chinese celebrate the New Year.
A new year, a new start. Many people stay up late for the new year and wish good luck to others. We make resolutions and hope the new year is better then the last. But does everyone in the world celebrate like this? What about in Asia, Australia, and Germany? The Chinese celebrate the new year by decorating with bright colors, eating foods with meanings, and using new things. These traditions are from long ago and the Chinese still use them to light up every year.
Lanterns and bright colors make a never ending path on the streets of China during the season of the new year. Special colors have special meanings. For instance; gold means wealth and red means luck. Many stores decorate with blossoms and these colors for good bussiness in the new year. People write poems with gold ink on red paper. They hang these up around windows and doors because thats where the new year will enter.
Windows and doors fly open as the old year is let out at midnight. They do this for the last year to exit. They set off firecrackers, bang loud drums, and use bright colors to scare away Nian, the monster of winter, so that spring can come.
They invite the new year to come and celebrate with new things. They exchange new gifts with friends and family and wear new clothes. The kids get new, crisp money. The money is in a red pouch for luck to make the new year bright.
Bright colors, getting new things, and scaring away Nian, all play big parts in the Chinese new year. The new year being successful is when Nian (winter) is gone and spring is here to stay. This long lived Chinese tradition is here to stay too.
In America we celebrate a lot of holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween. Well in china they have a big new year’s celebration. They put up decorations and bright lights in different colors. They let the old year out and let the New Year in. Different colors have different meanings. They eat special foods to. That’s what they do in china for New Year’s.
On New Year’s, the Chinese eat food with special meanings. Dumplings that are moon shaped mean the family will be happy. Candy means you will have a sweet future. Long noodles mean you will have a long life. That’s what some foods represent in china.
The Chinese also celebrate New Year’s with bright colors. Red represents good luck. Gold represents wealthy. They put up lights just like we do for Christmas. They also put up lights to scare away the Nian monster. The Nian monster is a monster that basically represents winter and the Chinese put up lights to try to scare away the Nian. Some of the colors people put up in china represent things.
The Chinese Even celebrates the new years by letting the old year out and the New Year in. At the night people open up their doors and windows. The reason they do this is because they try to let the old year out of there house and the new year in. This is also scaring away the Nian.
Another way the Chinese celebrates the New Year is with new things. People get new stuff (presents) for New Year. Parents do this for their kid. The reason why they do this is because they get new things for a new year. That’s why they do that.
As the Chinese celebrates new year’s, they get new things and do a lot. They dress up their house with lights, eat food with special meanings and they scare away the Nian. That’s how the chines celebrate New Year’s.
The Chinese celebrate the New Year in many different ways. One way is by hanging many bright colors everywhere like gold and red. Another way is with food.
The Chinese have lots of food because they love to eat. On the New Year, the Chinese love to eat noodles because that means long life. They believe that the longer the noodle, the longer you’ll live. They also like eating dumplings in a shape of crescents which signifies that the family will be satisfied in the New Year and will be happy. They also boil hard boiled eggs and paint them red for luck. They cook a hold fish because they believe that by doing this, they will have plenty to eat for the entire year. They give their guess dry fruit, oranges and candy for a sweet future.
The Chinese are known for decorations with bright colors. The color red means luck to them. The color gold means wealth. They hang red and gold decorations on their doors. They also paint lanterns red and gold and hang them everywhere. They hang poems around doorways where the New Year will enter. They parade with lights with shape lanterns. They use fireworks and more lanterns. Their New Year starts on the first day of a full moon. They also dance with the dragon. They also use red paper to make cuplets. Cuplets are signs and poems asking for good luck. Millions of people celebrate the Chinese New Year over the world. The Chinese are also known to pick animal for every New Year. At midnight, the Chinese open doors and windows to let the New Year in. The Chinese honor their ancestors. The children get gifts and red envelops with money and new clothes. The Chinese like to celebrate the New Years with all new things. The Chinese also celebrate their New Year among family and friends. In the past, this celebration would last fifteen days. However, now it only last one week.
The Chinese celebration is similar to ours. They bang on drums and make loud noises. We use noise makers. The Chinese spend time with their family and friends. We do too. They cook lots of food for their celebration. We do the same. The only difference with our food is that it does not have any particular meaning. They dance and we do to. Some people also use fire crackers like the Chinese do. The main reason for the Chinese New Year is that they are scaring away the Nian (winter monster). They scare it away by using bright colors, loud noises and fireworks.
How do the Chinese celebrate the New Year?
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January 23rd and is the year of the Dragon.
Chinese culture celebrates the New Year by decorating with many bright colors! Gold means wealth. Red and gold decorations, lanterns and blossoms promise to bring good will for the year. Red means luck. People write poems on red paper asking for luck. The poems are hung on doors for the brand new year. Parts of the celebrations are Dragon dances and Lion dances. These are also very colorful events. The Dragon dance usually has a team of 50 people that leap show pride by moving with a very colorful dragon on poles. The Dragons are bright green, red, gold and black. The movements of the dragons display power and dignity.
People gather to celebrate with family and friends, lanterns and lots and lots of fireworks. There is plenty of food. Every food has a different meaning. Candy means you will be sweet for the New Year. A whole fish means you will have plenty to eat. Noodles stands for long lives. Moon shaped dumplings means your family will be happy. The more food that is made means the more to have next year.
At exactly 12:00 people in China open their windows and doors to let the New Year in and the old year out! People set off fire crackers and fireworks and make loud noises because they want to scare away Nian the dragon. Some Chinese are scared of this dragon but some love the Nian. The Nian is a symbol of Winter. By scaring away the Nian the Chinese believe they are scaring away winter.
Good wishes! The Chinese celebrate the New Year with Family and Friends. They have very colorful decorations and food is very important. They have rituals like Dragon dances and scaring away Nian the dragon. The Chinese New Year is one of the most important festivities in the Chinese Calendar.
The Chinese celebrate with these beautiful eye catching angels, lanterns that sore in the misty dark sky. The lanterns look like colorful stars, as if you were flying in space! The colors used often are red and gold. These colors are used because gold stands for wealth, and red for luck. The Chinese also decorate with gold and red because they believe it brings good luck to their business.
Another way the Chinese celebrate their New Years is with eating special foods. These foods have special meaning in the New Year. The host of the party would give out oranges, dried fruits, and candies. The reason for this, the Chinese believe it will bring them a sweet future. Another tradition is if a person eats a whole fish, they would have food for the whole year. If a person eats long noodles, they believe they would live for a long time. And if a person eats crescent dumplings, they will have a happy and satisfied family. Then they would eat red dyed eggs to let the old year out.
There are many ways the Chinese believe they let the old year out, and welcome the New Year in. One way is when the Chinese hang poems written on red paper for good luck, when the New Year enters the door. Did you know that the Chinese would actually open their door and windows to let the New Year in and the old year out? The Chinese set out fire works and fire crackers, and the kids bang on whatever they can find to make the loudest noise, because Nian hates loud agitating noise and bright gleaming lights! The Chinese believe that the loud, agitating noise and bright lights would drive Nian away in time for the New Year!
As the New Year is emerging, Nian is Dying down. The Chinese play fun games, and fill the sky with colorful and bright lanterns, eat wonderful foods and display fireworks. The celebration continues for several days as if they are on vacation. The Chinese really know how to welcome a New Year as for everywhere in the world may have their own special traditions too.
The Chinese New Year is an exciting time. On the night of the new moon of the New Year around midnight, everyone flings open their windows and doors. They do this because they want to welcome in the New Year. This celebration lasts 7 days. The Chinese celebrate by having special foods, special festivities and by buying and sharing new things in honor of the New Year.
The Chinese New Year is a new start for everyone. They buy new clothes to feel new and they get new money to spend in red envelopes. Red symbolizes lucky to the Chinese and the Chinese love to be lucky in the New Year. They even have their own ritual to make their houses feel new. At the stroke of midnight they fling open their doors and windows to let the New Year in and the old year out. They write new poems using red paper and gold ink for good luck and hang them by their front entrance. Inside the home people are preparing new foods to celebrate.
The cool thing about the Chinese New Year is the more food you make the more you will have in the coming year. There’s a lot to eat in this time. A whole fish means a plentiful year ahead. Dumplings that are crescent shaped bring happiness to the family. They give out dried fruit and candy and the more candy you get the sweeter your future is. But with a sweet future you‘ll need a long life, so then there’s a perfect plan -- eat long noodles! The longer the noodle the longer your life and who doesn’t want long life ahead of them? So you can celebrate New Year many times and many different ways.
These are some ways the Chinese celebrate the New Year. Children dye eggs red to get good luck. The Chinese like to put up the colors red and gold because red means luck and gold means wealth in the coming year. Some people make loud noises and put up bright colors to scare away the evil monster Nian. Nian is the monster in an old Chines myth. In the myth Nian comes out once a year to eat people and houses. They found out that the monster was scared of bright lights and noise. So that is how they keep him away. They bang drums and even shoot firecrackers and fire works up in the air to scare away the monster. Lazy people watch the TV specials; other people celebrate with new clothes and new money and time with their family.
The Chinese New Year is a wonderful time. Do you think it would be fun to celebrate for a full week, with special gatherings, food, and new things to bring in the New Year? This is how it’s done with the Chinese New Year. My favorite thing would be to eat long noodles and candy and shoot fireworks into the air. How about you?
At the end of winter the Chinese celebrate the New Year in many ways. For example they eat food of special meaning, they decorate with bright Lights, and they wear new things, they let the New Year in and the Old Year out.
During New Year the Chinese eat foods with special meanings. They eat oranges, dried fruits and candy for a sweet year future. These are the foods and their meanings. Whole Fish = A surplus of food for the year, long noddles to live longer and cruiset Dumping = happy Year. The more food you make the more food you will have.
When the New Year comes Chinese people let the old year out. When it is midnight Chinese people open their doors and windows to let the New Year in and the old Year out. Also at midnight Chinese people set firecrackers on and fireworks, they noise hit my ear and makes impact. They also make noise by hitting anything really.
The Chinese also celebrate with bright colors. The colors also have their own meaning the color gold means wealthy, red means lucky. If you write a poem on a red paper it means great business. The colors of the street make my eyes go wow.
In conclusion the begaing of spring starts, and the Chinese New year is over Also the people still put make up on. Every moment of the New Year is fun for the Chinese and the same with ours.
By Arctic Hare
Chinese New Year Essay
1/19/12
The Chinese have celebrations that we don’t have, like Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is what they do to let the old and the bad things out for the New Year to begin. They decorate everything with bright colors and have special feasts.
The Chinese decorate with bright colors to celebrate the New Year because they believe that the color gold means wealth, so they hang objects that are the color gold. The Chinese also decorate with the color red which means lucky. They use these colors because they think luck and wealth are what they need in the Year. One of the ways they do that is by making couplets. Couplets are red paper with gold writing on it.
The Chinese eat food that they think has special meanings to signify the New Year. The more they eat is a symbol of how much they will eat in the New Year. The food that they eat has a special meaning like long noodles they say that means a long life time. If some one gives you candy, dry fruit or oranges that means they want you to have a sweet future. If you have a whole fish at this on meal on New Years night it means you will have a meal at every night in the New Year. The last one is if you have crescent dumplings your family will be satisfied and have happiness.
Let the old year out and the New Year in. The Chinese end the year by having parades and celebrations. The children are surprised that night with presents and money. They put the money in the red envelopes to wish them good wishes, the money is brand new and very flat. The children also get brand new clothes they start off the New Year with there heads healed high.
In conclusion the Chinese people start the New Year with happy and open hearts. All of the lights and the feast and the new clothes, that’s when you know it really is the New Year. They are lit up with joy and happiness just like the fire works that go off.
Just as people all around the world celebrate holidays, china celebrates what used to be fifteen days but now is only one week of New Years. Bringing in the New Year and letting the old year out. They do this by decorating, bright colors streaming through the sky. Loud beatings of the drums are also apart of how the celebrate the New Year. Making loud noises help scare away “Nian” the symbol of winter. And with a part of that the Chinese people get great new things to.
Opening all their doors and windows is a great way to scare away nian. At exactly midnight the people in china open the windows and doors and start celebrating. All the loud noises and all the bright lights help scare away nian and bring the New Year such as spring in. Family and friends celebrate together. They also even travel to be with their families to see the beautiful fireworks.
Along with that the Chinese people eat a large amount of food. Not only is the food good, it has special meanings. The food they eat on New Year’s is fish, noodles, dumplings and eggs. They eat long noodles because the noodles mean a long life. The crescent shaped dumplings they eat mean that they will have a happy and satisfying life. The Chinese cook a lot of food. Cooking a lot of food means they’ll have more food for next year.
Not only does the food have special meanings. Also in china the decorations and colors they hang up have special meanings. Colors have meanings as well, such as gold and red. These colors are very important in Chinese culture. Gold means wealth and red means that the people will be lucky. On New Year’s the Chinese people hang up red paper with poems on them for good luck with the New Year.
At the end of winter, beginning of spring the Chinese people successfully scare away nian with the loud and colorful fireworks. Also with that with that getting new things and new clothes helps start the New Year off great.
Wolf said...
There are a lot of holidays, like Christmas, Hanukah and Kwanzaa. I want to talk about a special holiday, that is celebrated by a variety of people. It is called Chinese new year! People celebrate Chinese New Year in many different ways, one way is with bright colors.
The Chinese celebrate new year with bright colors. They decorate with lanterns and blossoms so that the city is filled with color and excitement! Most of the colors that the Chinese use is gold and red. The colors mean good wealth and good luck. People in China hang red and gold lanterns on there house and shop for good wealth and for a very successful business. Even some of the foods have special meanings too!
For Chinese New year people eat foods with special meanings prommising a good future. For example, dried fruits and candy means your future will be sweet. A crescent shaped dumpling means you will be satisfied and happy. A big whole fish means you will have plenty to eat and long noodles for a long life. If you have left over food from the meal, it means you have even more food for next new year. Even by eating they are letting the new year in and the old year out.
The Chinese let the new year in and the old year out by opening all the windows and doors. People also give presents and new crisp money to the children. Every one in China would wear there new clothes for the New Year. Lets just say, that every thing was new for the New Year!
All throughout the New Year the Chinese celebrated with bright colors and bright lights, eating foods with different and special meanings and new things for the New Year. Now the King of all holidays is done now spring is here to come!
Christmas, Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, We all celebrate holidays! One of my favorite holidays that other people celebrate is the Chinese New Year! They have wonderful traditions. Like… Decorating with bright colors, eating foods that represent things for the future, letting the old year out to let the New Year in, and giving and getting new things.
I love takeout food, especially Chinese food. One of the things I order most from the Chinese place is dumplings. You know, the crescent shaped ones? If you eat those during the time of the Chinese New Year you will have a satisfying and happy year. Long noodles mean that you’ll have a long life. If you have a whole fish, you’ll have plenty of food for that next year, and the more food there is, the more food you’ll have in the future.
Did you know for a lucky future the Chinese write poems asking for luck on red paper? Then they hang those poems around their doorways. In China the color red represents luck, and the color gold represents wealth. And if you see any red and gold blossoms, lanterns, or other decorations outside of a business that means they are hoping for good business in the next year.
To let the next year in they have to let the old year out. To let the old year out they have to open the windows and doors at exactly midnight, set off fireworks and firecrackers, and the Chinese bang loud drums and make lots of loud noises! Setting off fireworks/firecrackers and making loud noises and banging drums also scare away the Nian (a symbol of winter) Kind of sounds like some of the traditions we have here in America! I think I’ll try first one next New Years!
Since it’s a new year, why not give new things? The Chinese give brand new things to celebrate New Years. Red envelopes with crisp fresh Yuan, closets filled with nice new clothes, new presents with shiny paper and fancy bows. So many new things!
Eating yummy foods that mean things for the future, putting up bright colors, new things for the New Year, and scaring away the Nian- Those are just some of traditions that the Chinese use to ring in the New Year. The Chinese New Year is a wonderful -and rather large, its celebrated by millions of millions of people all over the globe! – holiday. It must be fun celebrating!
Its early spring people all over the world people get ready for the Chinese New Year. They let the old year out by scaring away nean and let the New Year in. People do lots of things on the New Year they use bright colors, foods with special meanings, and making noise.
They use colors mostly red and gold those have their own meanings. If you see red on the door or just like a decoration you should know that people wish you luck for the New Year. Or the color gold that means people wished you wealth. And if you see red and gold together you means that someone wished you good business. So keep an eye on the colors someone might have wished you these things!
Also they love to make foods like oranges, dry food, candy, fish, and long noodles. They all have meanings like oranges, dry food, and candy represent sweet future. Fish means you will have a plenty to eat. And a long noodle means long life so make sure to find that longest noodle in your bowl!
The most important part of this holiday is to get rid of the nean. They believed that each year on the New Years this big monster nean came and killed people. As the legend says is that the nean is scared of loud noises and bright colors. So they sang, danced, played drums, and let the fireworks so the nean will leave.
That is a really fun holiday if you want to celebrate it go ahead no one stops you, so go ahead dance, sing, play music to help the others get away the nean!!!
People enjoy the new year. They get to count the final seconds of the old year, spend time with their family and have the time of their lives. People can learn a lot about new years in different countries, like China. During the Chinese New Year, the Chinese and others who are to dwell with this holiday eat different foods that have different meaning. They decorate with bright colors. They let the old year out in order to let the new year in. That is part of how the Chinese celebrate the new year.
During the Chinese New Year span, the Chinese eat different foods that have different meanings. The meaning for a dumpling is the family will be satisfied. Some kind of candy means to have a sweet new year. Get it? Long noodles are equivalent to dwelling long lives. When you eat whole fish, it means you will be able to eat plenty.
During the Chinese New Year span, the Chinese let the old year out. They do this because they want to scare off Nian Monster (Winter) in hopes that Spring will start. Once Spring starts, it is considered the New Year. They also want to let the old year out because they want to have a fresh year ahead of them.
During the Chinese New Year span, the Chinese decorate using bright colors. The color gold is set to being wealth. The color red is set to bring and gather luck. Red and gold decorations, lanterns and blossoms promise to bring good business.
The Chinese New Year is a great holiday to celebrate. Since some of us are still kids we can say we love getting presents. Presents!!! Presents can be food. Food as you know has different meanings. Have a sweet future and a sweet Chinese New Year!
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