guò nián hǎo! happy chinese new year!. guò nián hǎo! the most important festival for chinese...
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Guò Nián Hǎo!
Happy Chinese New Year!
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Guò Nián Hǎo!•The most important festival for Chinese people just like Christmas in the West.
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Guò Nián Hǎo!•Time: The 1st day of the 1st lunar month
( one month later than the Gregorian calendar)
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Guò Nián Hǎo!It was on 7th of
February 2008.
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Guò Nián Hǎo! Chinese New Year 2008 is Year of
Rat
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut-Rat
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut-Rat
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut-Rat
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Papercut – Rat
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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
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• They are buying train tickets!
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Migrant workers return home
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Bus station
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Airport
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Spring Festival couplets
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Guò Nián Hǎo!• Spring Festival couplets
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Spring Festival couplets
Everything goes well
East Spring
South Summer
West Autumn
North Winter
given good
assistance fortune
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The character “ Fú ” is a must!
福 Fú (happiness)
is pasted
on the door
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The character “ Fú ”- happiness
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The character “ Fú ” - happiness
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The character “ Fú ” - happiness
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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.
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New Year’s Eve feast
• The meal is more luxurious than usual.
• Dishes such as chicken, fish cannot be excluded.
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New Year’s Eve feast
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New Year’s Eve feast
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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!
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Hóngbāo - Red Packet
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Hóngbāo - Red Packet
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Hóngbāo - Red Packet
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Hóngbāo - Red Packet
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Jiǎozi - Dumplings
•People in north
China will eat Jiǎozi
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Jiǎozi - Dumplings
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Jiǎozi - Dumplings
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Jiǎozi - Dumplings
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Jiǎozi - Dumplings
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Jiǎozi - Dumplings
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Jiǎozi
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Making Jiǎozi
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Why eat Jiǎozi ?
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?
• 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.
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
• Southern Chinese
eat Nián gāo.
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
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Nián gāo – New Year cake
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Why eat “Nián gāo” ?
• nián: year
• gāo : high / higher
• “Nián gāo” is homophonic with
“higher and higher,
one year after another”
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Celebrations
• Burning fireworks!
• Lion dancing
• Dragon lantern dancing
• Temple fairs
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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.