zodiacs

The twelve zodiac, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and lastly pig.

Hey! What a big family Celebrating Chinese New Year (CNY)

This is picture of some pineapple tarts. Looks yummy!

Attire

The is a one piece Chinese dress for female.(below)while the man wears a Changshan(on top). Qipao is 旗袍 in chinese and mandarin gown in English. The stylish and and often tight fitting choengsam or qipao that os most often associated with today was created in the 1920 in Shanghai.

The changshan is for the male. the Mandarin word changshan is cognate with the cantonese term cheuhngsaam, which has been borrowed into English as "choengsam".

Places of interest!

Chinatown is a place where people go during Chinese New Year (CNY). Here is some photos we took there. The picture on the bottom is taken in Thian Hock Kheng temple. Those will be found in Chinatown. Hope you enjoy this post

Story about nian monster

Long long ago, there is a legendary monster called NIAN.It would always destroy the hard grown crops and fields.The villiages were angry so they tried to use all means to scare the NIAN monster. Finally, THE VILLIAGES found it's weakness so they used it to scare NAIN.Indeed,it worked.The monster was scared of the colour red so the use firecrakers to scare it off.The monster never came to disturb the villiages again.This story is not the long version but i hope u like it!

Food

Lo Hei is also called Yusheng. It is a Teochew-style raw fish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish( most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients. Yusheng literally means "raw fish" but since "fish
（鱼）"s commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance(余)", Yusheng (鱼生) is interpreted as a homophone for Yusheng(余生) meaning an increase in abundance. Therefore, Yusheng is considered a symbol of abundance, prosperity and vigor.

Pineapple tartsare small, bite-size pastries filled with or topped with pineapple jam, popular in Singapore, Malaysia and many more.Considered a "festive cookie", pineapple tarts are usually consumed during the Chinese New Year season. Typical shapes include a flat, open tart topped with pineapple jam under a lattice of pastry, rolls filled with jam that are open at the ends and jam-filled spheres.ok, I'm done talking about food.




Bak Kua is a Chinese salty-sweet dried meatmade in the form of flat thin sheet.Bakkwa is believed to have originated from a meat preservation and preparation technique used in ancientmade from Pork.

How We Celebrate CNY at home

The way we celebrate at home is very special. We will have a reunion dinner go visiting and we will receive lots of ang pow. Ang pow is a red packet where you put money in. Reunion dinner consists of a lot of people up to 12-17 or maybe just the family. We will also have lo hei.

For visiting,we will go to our relatives place and talk to them. My favourite part is reunion dinner because there will be lots of food that can only be eaten during CNY. For example,we will have sharks fin soup. It is very yummy and we are only able to eat it only CNY.

The picture is a nian gao. It is also called year cake or Chinese New Year cake. It is prepared from glutinous rice and can be consumed in Chinese cuisine. It is available in Asian supermarkets . It can be eaten all year round, traditionally it is most popular during Chinese New Year. it is considered good luck to eat nian gao during Chinese New Year, because "nian gao" is a homonym for "higher year". The Chinese word 粘(nian), meaning sticky, is is idendical in sound to 年 meaning "year", and the word 糕(gao), meaning "cake" is identical in sound to 高(gao), meaning "high". As such, eating nian gao has the symbolism of raising oneself higher in each year(年年高升nian nian gao sheng)

why chinese new year dates are different every year

wondering why CNY dates are always different?this is the answer!The lunisolar Chinese calendar determines Chinese New Year dates. The calendar is also used in countries that have adopted or have been influenced by Han culture (notably the Koreans, Japanese and Vietnamese) and may have a common ancestry with the similar New Years festivals outside East Asia (such as Iran, and historically, the Bulgars lands).
In the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20. In the Chinese calendar, winter solstice must occur in the 11th month, which means that Chinese New Year usually falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice (rarely the third if an intercalary month

Check us out!

We are a group of 4 people jonathan lee,jonathan goh ,jay,xin tong and we are proud to present you
CHINESE NEW YEAR!!!
Oh! i am sorry we forgot to introduce ourselves we are from primary 5 from st Anthony's primary school
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Sit back and relax and please you will need some popcorn because its got to be a long article .Every chinese new year, the whole school will gather at the hall to watch performance put up by some anthonians.The teachers will also have a presentation about chinese new year and its culture.We enjoy how we celebrate Chinese New Year in school.Hope u enjoy this post.Have u finish your popcorn?