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Gu ò Ni á n H ǎ o!. Happy Chinese New Year!. Gu ò Ni á n H ǎ o!. The most important festival for Chinese people just like Christmas in the West. Gu ò Ni á n H ǎ o!. Time: The 1 st day of the 1 st lunar month ( one month later than the Gregorian calendar). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Guò Nián Hǎo!Happy Chinese New
Year!
Guò Nián Hǎo!•The most important festival for Chinese people just like Christmas in the West.
Guò Nián Hǎo!•Time: The 1st day of the 1st lunar month
( one month later than the Gregorian calendar)
Guò Nián Hǎo!26th of January 2009.
Guò Nián Hǎo! Chinese New Year
2009 is the Year of the
Ox
Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut-Ox
Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut-Ox
Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut - Ox
Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut – Ox
Family Reunions!
“about 2.17 billion people are expected to travel to and from home in 40 days this year”
“The railways expect to carry 156 million passengers this year”
----China Economic Net
Guò Nián Hǎo!• They are buying train tickets!
Migrant workers return home
Guò Nián Hǎo!• Bus station
Guò Nián Hǎo!• Airport
Spring Festival couplets
春联 Spring Festival couplets: Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets ( 春联 chunlian), highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners’ wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance
Guò Nián Hǎo!Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets
Everything goes well
East Spring
South Summer
West Autumn
North Winter
given good
assistance fortune
The character “ Fú ” is a must!
福 Fú (happiness)
is pasted
on the door
The character “ Fú ”- happiness
The character “ Fú ” - happiness
The character “ Fú ” - happiness
New Year’s Eve feast
• Chinese people attach great importance to New Year’s Eve or Spring Festival Eve.
• At that time, all family members eat dinner together.
New Year’s Eve feast
• The meal is more luxurious than usual.
• Dishes such as chicken, fish cannot be excluded.
New Year’s Eve feast
New Year’s Eve feast
Hóngbāo - Red Packet• On New Year, everyone dresses up.
• First they say “Guò Nián Hǎo!” (Happy New Year!) to extend greetings to their parents.
• Then each child will get “Hóngbāo” with money in it as a New Year gift!
Hóngbāo - Red Packet
Hóngbāo - Red Packet
Hóngbāo - Red Packet
Hóngbāo - Red Packet
Jiǎozi - Dumplings
•People in north
China will eat Jiǎozi
Jiǎozi - Dumplings
Jiǎozi - Dumplings
Jiǎozi - Dumplings
Jiǎozi - Dumplings
Jiǎozi - Dumplings
Jiǎozi
Making Jiǎozi
Why eat Jiǎozi ?
?
• In sound it means “bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new”
• Also, the shape of “Jiǎozi ” is like a gold ingot from ancient China.
Nián gāo – New Year cake
• Southern Chinese
eat Nián gāo.
Nián gāo – New Year cake
Nián gāo – New Year cake
Nián gāo – New Year cake
Nián gāo – New Year cake
Nián gāo – New Year cake
Nián gāo – New Year cake
Why eat “Nián gāo” ?
• nián: year
• gāo : high / higher
• “Nián gāo” is homophonic with
“higher and higher,
one year after another”
Celebrations
• Burning fireworks!
• Lion dancing
• Dragon lantern
dancing
• Temple fairs
Guò Nián Hǎo!• China has 56 ethnic groups.
• Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.