By Yoyo Leung

Knowing Chinese New Year

春 节Festival

First day of Spring…

February 10, 2013

Chinese Lunar Calendar

Luck

Red Dress code

Rest

RelationshipsHealth

Wealth

Red Pocket Money

“Congratulations on your good fortune!”

Fu=wealthy=trousers/jeans

All stores are closed…

拜年 Bai nian

1. Grandparents

2. Parents ／ Uncles

3. Siblings

4. Children

“Healthy body!!!!!!”

Don’t do anything that is unluckyDon’t wash your hair or have any hair cutDon’t sweep the floorDon’t swear or quarrelDon’t buy new shoesDon’t say the number fourDon’t drop your chopsticksDon’t use scissors or knife

Taboos

[Bainian at Chinese New Year, photograph]. Retrieved October 24, 2012 from http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/500/500061.shtml

[Gifts, photograph]. Retrieved October 24, 2012 from http://blackartblog.blackartdepot.com/site-updates/black-art-gift-certificate.html

Mirror_Lake. (Photographer). (2012). Spring is pink [photograph]. Retrieved October 24, 2012 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirror_lake/3212619410/

New York Apple Association. (2008). Apple [photograph]. Retrieved October 24, 2012 from http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/New_York/Fruit_Apple.html

Qing, I. (2008, December 30). Taboos of Chinese New Year. Foreign language learning Retrieved October 24, 2012 fromhttp://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_52f895dd0100bmcz.html?tj=1

Spring is Here. (photograph). (2012). Retrieved October 24, 2012 from http://englishfromfirstages.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-is-here.html

References