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