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Do you know about China
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Lejing decided to share her ancestral culture with us.
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Do you know about China?
SPRING FESTIVAL
It is the most important festival for the Chinese people and it is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West.
Before the New Year comes, people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.
They also begin decorating their rooms featuring an atmosphere of festivity with the Chinese calligraphy pasted on all the doors panels, to wish for a bright future and good luck for the New Year.
Spring Festival
“FU” – Blessing or happiness
The lion dance is the most spectacular event in this festival season, believed to dispell evil and bring good luck and happiness. It combines art, history and kungfu moves.
FOOD
Jiao zi: midnight or the end and
the beginning of
time.
The most common food for Spring Festival are Nian Gao or New Year cake, which means “Higher each year” – Symbolizing progress and promotion at work + improvement in life year by year!!
Lantern Festival
“Watching lanterns”
“Guessing lantern riddles”
Eat TANG YUAN with your family….
Symbolic of family unity and family
prosperity.
Chinese Traditional Clothes
Palace of Heavenly
Purity
Chinese traditional wedding
The colour red is significant in the Chinese culture.
Double “FU”: Character for happiness, delightfulness and
fortune.
Hall of Supreme Harmony
88“baa baa”Bye bye
520“wu er
lin”I love you
1314“yi san yi si”Forever or
always
5201314“wu er ni yi san
yi si”I love you
forever
510“wu yao lin”I want you
4“si”
Dead
74“qi si”
Angry to Die
Chinese Numbers and their Meanings
Horse racing
Chinese Porcelain… aka china.
…China's Gift to
the World
Chinese Fans: More than Keeping Cool
Music and
Dance
China
SurprisingDifferent
Amazing
Unique
Ancient
"Bo Da Jing Shen 博大精深“
Boda 博大 = Broad and VariedJingshen 精深 = Intricate and Deep
Welcomes YOU!!China
Done by
•Lejing, 11H, ESJR
