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❖ Dumplings: Chinese people eat dumplings during the new year because they believe it will bring
them wealth. These are especially eaten in North China. Chinese don't eat Chinese sauerkraut (酸菜
suāncài /swann-tseye/) dumplings at Spring Festival, because it implies a poor and difficult future.
On New Year's Eve it is a tradition to eat dumplings with cabbage and radish, implying that one's
skin will become fair and one's mood will become gentle.
❖ Fish: Eating fish causes an increase in prosperity. These are the luckiest fish to eat: Crucian carp,
Chinese mud carp, eating two fish, eating one catfish
❖ Spring rolls: Wealth - there is a lucky saying for spring rolls: “A ton of gold”. This is said because
spring rolls look like golden bars.
❖ Sweet rice balls(tangyuan): Eating this brings family togetherness.
❖ Longevity noodles(changsou): Happiness and Longevity.
❖ Good fortune fruit: brings fullness and wealth
Megan - Traditions
● Ghosts, spirits, and Nian
○ Nian is a monster that brings destruction
○ To scare away Nian, Chinese people…
■ Wear red
■ Hang red banners
■ Set off firecrackers
■ Perform a lion dance
● Food
○ Jiaozi resemble ancient Chinese gold
○ In the southern parts of China, rice cakes are more common than Jiaozi
● Red envelopes
○ Older generations give younger generations red envelopes filled with money
■ Lucky money
○ Some companies even give end-of-year bonuses in red envelopes
Angel - Lunar Calendar
- Lunar Year is Friday, February 16
- A lunar year is only 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds.
- The lunar calendars lose around 11 days per year
- The beginnings of the Chinese calendar can be traced back to the 14th century
B.C.E.
- Emperor Huangdi invented the calendar in 2637 B.C.E.
Luis - Other Countries
● Other countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year besides china are Vietnam
and Korea
● Korean New Year's celebrations begin with everyone wearing traditional
dress called a hanbok
● A traditional New Year's meal for Koreans is duk gook a soup of thinly sliced
rice cakes
● It officially ends on the seventh day marked by dragon processions stalking
the streets
● A traditional New Year's meal for Vietnamese is Banh Chung