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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Happy Lunar New Year

At the end of this week, we will have a traditional Chinese spring festival we call Lunar New Year.During this time,all family members who live or work far away from home will come back to celebrate this special day. On Lunar New Year's Eve,all family members stay at home to have a special dinner, which is well prepared by the parents.At the same time,the couples will hand out the red packages which we call lucky money to elders and children.This means they bring the luck to us and wish that we can make much money in the coming year. I really like this. After finishing dinner,the elders will stay at home to watch the spring fesitival show,but the youth like to go to flower market because it is so interesting. There are many beautiful flowers in the market.If someone wants to find their match in the new year,they will buy flowers to place in the home,they wish they will find a match soon.After that,we come back home and stay the whole night.The next day,which we call 'open year" which means the real new year,we will go to friends' and relatives' to celebrate this holiday,staying togeter and talking about their jobs and other things.Lunar New Year is a very interesting holiday,and I really like it.I hope everone will like this holiday!

1 Comments:

  • At 12:16 PM, Blogger Gail said…

    Happy New Year Li!

    How did you celebrate the holiday here in the USA? Did you prepare all the same foods that your mother usually does? Traditionally, do men also help with the cooking at this time of year? I also have a question about the flowers... do you have to purchase a special type of flower to encourage a "match"?

    Thanks for the great description!

     

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