The document provides an overview of the Chinese New Year celebration, including traditions and legends. It describes how the festival lasts 15 days and involves cleaning homes, decorating with red colors and lanterns, preparing abundant food, family gatherings, giving children red envelopes with money, lighting firecrackers, dragon and lion dances, and releasing lanterns on the final day. Legend has it that the noises of firecrackers awaken dragons and scare away a monster called Nian. The celebration marks the beginning of spring and a time for families to get together.

1. LEARN ABOUT THE LEGEND, TRADITIONS
OF THE CELEBRATION OF THIS HOLIDAY
ENGLISH FOR KIDS 4+
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2. In February, Chinese people are celebrating
the Chinese New Year.
This centuries-old holiday is filled with
exciting traditions and rituals.
Is also called :
 Lunar New Year – as it ‘s
based on Lunar Calender
 Spring Festival - as it marks the beginning of spring
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3. The legends
One legend tells of the
monster Nian, who attacked
humans the night before a
new year. This monster was
frightened away by a god,
dressed as an old man, with
crackling, burning bamboo.
This god taught the humans
that Nian is afraid of
bright colors and loud
noises. Therefore in order
to "survive Nian", the
Chinese decorate their
homes with bright red colors
and set off firecrackers
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4. Another legend relates to Chinese
dragons, which are magical,
powerful creatures that bring
rain. However, the rain dragons
sleep over the winter, resulting in
very little rain. The dragons must
be awakened for spring in order
to bring rain and new growth. The
noise of noise makers,
firecrackers and fireworks is used
to awaken the dragons.
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5. The festival lasts for 15 days.
During these 15 days people follow
many traditions celebrating with their
families.
Let’s learn some of the things to be
done to welcome and celebrate the
arrival of the Chinese New Year.
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6. Customs and traditions during
Chinese New Year
1. Cleaning
2. Decoration
3. Food
4. Family gatherings
5. Traditional Feast – Reunion Dinner
6. Red envelopes
7. Lantern festival
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7. 1. CLEANING
• Homes are cleaned
top to bottom before the
beginning of the new year
to get rid off all the bad luck
gathered in the previous year.
• Kids help to clean their homes too.
• And after the New Year comes, you cannot sweep during
the first days otherwise all the new luck will sweep away!
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8. • as Chinese New Year approaches, homes,
offices, shops, airports, train stations are
dressed in their holiday best.
• A sea of red and gold, bright lanterns and
flowers are everywhere welcoming the arrival
of the largest and most important festival of the
year.
• What are the typical ornaments for the Spring
Festival?
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10. Bright Red Lanterns
• The most popular
decorations are red and gold
lanterns
The red Chinese Lantern
has become a symbol of
Chinese Culture.
To Chinese, it represents
vitality and prosperity.
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11. Banners and Scrolls with
New Year's Greetings
• Red and gold banners with New
Year messages of good
luck adorn all all entrances
offering a warm welcome and
wishes of prosperity and good
fortune for the upcoming year.
• Red and Gold are lucky colors
for the Chinese, red symbolizes
vitality of life and happiness,
gold represents wealth and
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12. Chinese Knots
• Chinese Knots are hung during the holidays or
given as good-luck charms to your loved ones.
• They protect from evil spirits and particularly
the intricate "endless knots" are a sign of an
"endless" life or longevity.
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13. Ancient Chinese Coins
• Coins are associated with
wealth and prosperity.
• You will typically see the
ancient coin with the square
hole in the middle used as
decorative tokens.
• Also popular are charms with
three coins tied with red string
for good luck.
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14. Chinese Gold Ingot
• These boat-shaped
gold ingots make shiny
ornaments.
• They were traditionally
made of silver or gold
and used as money in
Ancient China and
therefore represent
wealth and prosperity.
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15. Preparing Food
• Food must be prepared ahead of time.
• Food is very important to Chinese.
• This is a time of abundance, lots of food signify prosperity
for the coming year!
• Many dinners
are held with
family
• And there will
be lots of visiting
relatives and
friends
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16. Traditional dishes
• So what needs to be prepared?
Here are some popular dishes that are
traditionally present at the Chinese New Year.
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17. Dumplings
• Dumplings represent prosperity.
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18. Noodles
• Noodles represent long life.
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19. Oranges and tangerines
• Oranges and tangerines symbolize luck and
their bright color looks like gold.
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20. Candy tray
• eight kinds of
dried sweet fruits
• candy in shiny red
and gold
wrappers
• chocolate coins
• individually
wrapped gummy
candies in flavors
like lychee or
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21. Live plants and vases of fresh flowers.
• Chinese New Year is a celebration marking the
end of the winter season and the beginning of
spring.
• Plants are more than decoration, they are a
symbol of good fortune, wealth and
prosperity.
• A flower that blooms on New Year's day is
particularly "lucky".
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22. Decorating with Plants and Flowers for
Chinese New Year
• These are some of the most popular and their special
meanings:
• Mandarin and
Orange trees
• Kumquat,
• Bamboo
• Branches of
Cherry or Plum
Blossoms
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23. Family Gatherings
• Families come together during Chinese New
Year
• It is the time of year to gather with your
family, and welcome the New Year.
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24. Traditional Feast – Reunion Dinner
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25. The Chinese New Year Red Envelope
• is one of the favorite
Chinese traditions for
children since on New
Year's Day, they are
given the shiny things
with money inside!
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26. New Year's Eve
• Firecrackers are set off on
New Year's Eve to send out
the old year and welcome in
the new.
• firecrackers made out of
bright shiny paper hanging
alongside door entrances,
adorning walls
• They are lit in front of houses
and stores so that the evil
spirits are scared away from
the loud cracking noises.
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27. The Lantern Festival marks the end of
the Chinese New Year Festivities
• There will be a variety of clowns, stilt walkers, acrobats,
floats and parades, music and drums and of course the Lion
Dance and Dragon dance and firecrackers.
• Children carry their lanterns around the village and families
come together to eat sweet rice balls for good fortune and
family unity.
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28. stilt walkers
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30. floats
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31. music and drums
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33. Lion dance
• brings good luck and scare
away the evil spirits.
• The Lion performance is
acted out by only two
dancers.
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34. Dragon dance
• Every Chinese New Year
Parade ends with a Dragon
Dance
• scares away the evil spirits
and all the bad luck with
them
• the Dragon Dance is
performed by a team of a
dozen or so dancers who
hold the dragon up on
poles. They raise and lower
the Dragon making him
"dance"
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36. Fireworks
The loud noises of the Chinese New Year fireworks
are believed to scare away evil spirits
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