gu ò ni á n h ǎ o!
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Gu ò Ni á n H ǎ o!. Happy Chinese New Year!. Gu ò Ni á n H ǎ o!. The most important festival for Chinese people just like Christmas in the West. Gu ò Ni á n H ǎ o!. Time: The 1 st day of the 1 st lunar month ( one month later than the Gregorian calendar). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Guò Nián Hǎo!•Time: The 1st day of the 1st lunar month
( one month later than the Gregorian calendar)
Family Reunions!
“about 2.17 billion people are expected to travel to and from home in 40 days this year”
“The railways expect to carry 156 million passengers this year”
----China Economic Net
Spring Festival couplets
Everything goes well
East Spring
South Summer
West Autumn
North Winter
given good
assistance fortune
New Year’s Eve feast
• Chinese people attach great importance to New Year’s Eve or Spring Festival Eve.
• At that time, all family members eat dinner together.
New Year’s Eve feast
• The meal is more luxurious than usual.
• Dishes such as chicken, fish cannot be excluded.
Hóngbāo - Red Packet• On New Year, everyone dresses up.
• First they say “Guò Nián Hǎo!” (Happy New Year!) to extend greetings to their parents.
• Then each child will get “Hóngbāo” with money in it as a New Year gift!
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• In sound it means “bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new”
• Also, the shape of “Jiǎozi ” is like a gold ingot from ancient China.
Why eat “Nián gāo” ?
• nián: year
• gāo : high / higher
• “Nián gāo” is homophonic with
“higher and higher,
one year after another”