2009/2/25 Homework- Chinese New Year

Homework Chinese New Year by Nina Wang [from Taiwan] 25th Feb 2009

Taiwan is a democratic country, China is a communist country, although China and Taiwan are different countrys, we use the same language and life style. Becasue we are the same country before one hundred years. If I introduce about Taiwan’s traditional holiday, I would introduce Chinese New Year. Chinese New year is big holiday in my country. And we usually celebate 15 days about Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year’s Eve, Chinese eat traditional dinner with family together and stay up all night on New Year's Eve. We eat traditional food on New Year, such as rice cakes, spring rolls, dumplings, and rice glue balls etc. And each food has a good fortune symbol of Chinese New Year. Every Chinese children hope to get red envelops, because the red envelop is a money gift. We use twelve animals to count 12 traditional years cycle. And this year is Ox year. Chinese use 12 animals count our ages. I am a Tiger, because I was born in Tiger year. Each animal has a different personality and different characteristics. That’s interesting.
The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the end of Chinese New year celebration. This day we call Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is a China’s traditional festival. Lanterns are made in the shape of different animals, vegetables, fruits and many other things. On Lantern Festival people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy.