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Xin Nian Kuai Le! It's Chinese New Year! The perfect opportunity to celebrate all things Chinese. New Years Day itself is on Sunday, but most Chinatowns around the country have already begun their celebrations with festivals, parades, and community gatherings all week long. So this week, explore your nearest Chinese community - go out for a dinner of sesame beef and snow pea leaves, shop for teapots and bamboo steamers with a hot cup of bubble milk tea, or spend Sunday morning eating dim sum.
Traditional Chinese New Year decorations include red paper cut-outs like the one above and banners with the character Fu, or Fortune, which are hung upside down for luck ("fallen" and "arrive" are synonyms in Mandarin, so when a child says "the Fu has fallen down" it sounds like he is saying "the Fu has arrived"). It is also traditional to eat tangerines on the new year because their shape and color are reminicent of the money we would all like to earn in the coming year.
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Happy Year of the Dog ... informative post!
Posted by: Ivonne at January 26, 2006 02:33 AM
