Chinese New Year

Chinese new year is on January 23rd. During the Chinese new year, people got new clothes, money etc. People eat many special food for just new year because each food as it's own meaning. First is chicken, when you pronounce chicken in Taiwanese is pronounce it as " Gae " and it sounds similar to the word "Home/Family" in Taiwanese, which is also pronounced it as " Gae ". We have to eat the whole chicken because that means the "whole family". Second one is fish. For Chinese people when you go visit your friends or family you need to say some greeting words , for example "Nian Nian You Yu". This is the reason why we eat fish. In new year we have to finish all the food but not the fish because, " nian nian " every year, " You yu" have something left for your future, something like that. Third food is " Yuan Bao" or the "Jiao Zi". In English is call the dumplings. The dumplings look like "yuan Bao", and it means money so most of the Chinese people like to eat this during the new year. The other one that I'm going to talk about is "Nian Gao" the most common food for new year. In English it means Sticky rice cake, "nian" means year or like age, "gao" means high, so when you eat this you'll grow tall or like your score will get higher. The last food that I'm There is a story about the new year too. Long time ago, there is a "Nian shou" that means a monster called "nian" and like i said up there, "nian" means age or year. Every time the nian monster will go attack the people, so every new year when the nian monster came, they prepared things to scared the nian monster away from them. They chop food very loud on the chopping board so that scared it away from them, and they also hanged the lantern up high outside the house and wear red shirts and firework to scare away the monster nian. They used red stuff to scar them away.

a pictire of nian got attacked by the red stuff!

    

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"Chinese New Year." Inuyasha's House. Web. 22 Jan. 2012. <http://linda914.blogspot.com/2012/01/chinese-new-year.html>.