Chinese New Year Essays & Research Papers

Experiencing Chinese New Year, Age 18, Far Away from Home Haoyuan Liu 1/30/2013 ENG1010-021 Summary: I experienced the Chinese New Year without my family, far away from home. When I was 18 years old, I left my hometown in China, Chengdu, and came to America to study. I have been gone 14 long months. Have you ever been badly homesick? Have you ever felt lonely? Admittedly, I do have such feelings since then. I miss my home. Curiously, I find that handwriting letters can help me stay in...

Chinese New Year is the biggest holiday celebrated among Chinese people. It is often referred to as the spring festival because it signals the beginning of spring. It is a time when families and friends get together to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. It originally lasted for 15 days, but now only lasts for 5 to 7 days. The exact origin of this Chinese New Year holiday is too old to be traced, but many explanations still exist. One idea is that the holiday originated when a beast...

I love Chinese New Year! Chinese Lunar New Year is a traditional festival in China. Hundreds of thousands people will celebrate this festival with their family and friends in different countries. People will spend out their money to buy presents, decorations, materials, foods, and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans their house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color...

Introduction “A special event recognizes a unique moment in time with ceremony and ritual to satisfy specific needs” (Goldblatt, 1997). There are many different types of event, taking place in different settings and on every scale. There are personal event, private events, commercial events and public events. The reason for choosing the Chinese New Year event is that it is a big event in my home country. It represents the history and culture from thousand year ago in China. In this...

CHINEESE NEW YEAR Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the New Year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every...

Table of Contents Abstract Introduction 1 Research Methods 1 Research Findings 1-2 Discussion 2 Conclusion 3 References Abstract This paper describes and analyzes the significance of the Chinese holidays celebrated in Suriname which has significances among the Surinamese people. These two significant holidays are: The Chinese New Year and The Chinese Moon Festival. They are also the most important and economic holiday for the Surinamese...

Nina Wells Vicki Marie Course Code: 10831 Extra Credit Assignment #3: Chinese New Year This year my family and I was able to attend the historical 37th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration Festival in Stockton, California. We were able to meet the Chinese New Year Celebration Committee, the Chinese Cultural Society of Stockton, and other similar vendors. We were also able to 92 year old Blanche Chin Ah Tye, the 2015 Grand Marshal and citizen of the year. She is one of the first founding members...

Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The new year begins on the first day of the Chinese calendar, which usually falls in February, and the festivities continue for 15 days. At Chinese New Year celebrations, people wear red clothes, give children “lucky money” in red envelopes and set off firecrackers. Red symbolizes fire, which the Chinese believe drives away bad luck. Family members gather at each other's homes for...

For other traditions of celebrating lunar new year, see Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year Lion dancers at Historic Chinatown Gate, Chinese New Year, Hing Hay Park, Seattle, Washington (February 3, 2011) Also called Lunar New Year, Spring Festival, New Year Observed by Chinese communities worldwide[1] Type Cultural, Religious (Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian) Significance The first day of the Chinese calendar (lunisolar calendar) 2012 date Monday, January 23, Dragon 2013 date Sunday,...

Introduction 吉祥話 (jí xiáng hùa) also known as Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festival for the Chinese. This festival begins on the first day of the first month ( 正月: zhēng yuè ) in the lunisolar Chinese calendar and ends 15 days later. Some might be confused why Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year. This is because the Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up"...

The Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is a special festival in China. We have this festival once a year around January and February, it is not the same date every year in Christian calendar but it is the same date in lunar calendar. It last for two weeks. People will buy new clothes and decorate their house before Chinese New Year because they believe that a new year begins, then everything should be new and everything returns to the beginning. They also go...

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts at the beginning of spring . The beginning of spring is usually around the forth or fifth of Feburary. It's origins are too old to be traced but several explanations have been presented. All agree that the word Nian, now chinese for year, was originally the name of a monster that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of the new year. One legend goes that the monster had an enormous mouth that...

ESSAY ; CHINESE NEW YEAR Chinese New Year is an annual celebration marking the start of the year according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year always falls in the months of January or February, and each Chinese New Year is represented by 1 of the 12 creatures of the Chinese Zodiac – 2014 is the year of the Horse. Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival and in pre-modern times it would signal to farmers in China that they must begin preparation for the sowing of...

Chinese New Year Fun Facts! In ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Twelve came and Buddha named a year after each one. People born during the year of the snake are wise, charming, generous, and smart. Red, the color of Chinese New Year, symbolizes fire which drives away bad luck. Long ago, people in China lit bamboo stalks, believing that the crackling flames would frighten evil spirits. Tangerines symbolize luck and prosperity. The...

Aixuan Li 03/29/2012 Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as "Spring Festival." People celebrate this day by enjoy the Dragon dances, Lion dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives , giving red envelopes, and decorating with duilian(usually represented as two lines of poems that match together to wish people good luck and was hung on the wall of the...

Preparations for the New Year begin a couple of weeks before the big day. This is a fun time full of anticipation and joy as we get ready for the thrill and excitement of the celebrations. According to the traditions, this is the time to clean the house, prepare food for the feast and make banners and decorations special for the New Year. A clean house to welcome the New Year Before the New Year comes, it is one of the Chinese New Year customs to clean the house from top to bottom to get rid...

Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout China and is also known as The Spring Festival. It goes for fifteen days and the preparations start even before the old year has come to an end. The people prepare by cleaning up, buying gifts and cooking festival food. Chinese New Year according to an ancient legend was started like this: People were once tormented by a beast called a Nian - a ferocious creature with an extremely large mouth, capable of swallowing several people in...

Chinese New Year The most favorite holiday celebration in my country is Chinese New Year. It contains threes parts: the preparations, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The Chinese New Year’s day is different from each year because it is based on the Chinese traditional lunar calendar. For the preparations of New Year, Chinese prefer decorate their houses and purchase goods that relate the Chinese New Year’s celebrations. Like people in Western countries prepare for Thanksgiving and...

Compare Chinese New Year with American New Year Difference: Following is two differences between two customs. Dates are different: The Chinese New Year is based on lunar--calendar, but the American New Year is based on solar—calendar. So, both the dates of New Year are different even if the New Years are on January 1. Festivities are different: In the America, Americans like to have parties at New Year’s Eve. At ten seconds before midnight, people count down. After. People hug and...

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Year's Day itself, the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New...

Chinese New Year - Spring Festival Chinese New Year (Chinese: 春節, 春节, Chūnjíe; 農曆新年, 农历新年, Nónglì Xīnnián; or 過年, 过年, Guònián), also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year's Day, celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, i.e. the day of the second new moon after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless there is an...

Chinese New Year in Phnom Penh ... Chinese new year is one of a traditional ceremony which chinese people always celebrate it every year. It is a kind of annual thing for chinese people just like the other nation around the world celebrate for the new year. Since china is a big country which is the most population, so there are many chinese people live around the world in different country in the large amount of number. Just because of that, the chinese new year has become well known to...

Marco Soegimin Professor Danielsen English March 23, 2011 My Family Tradition During Chinese New Year Chinese are rich in culture. They have a lot of superstitious beliefs and new year traditions. Chinese New Year is a huge event for all Chinese people including my family. The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with the Lantern Festival which is on the fifteenth day. The entire attention of the household was fixed on the...

1. The traditional Chinese New Year celebration lasts 15 days. 2. 2013 is the year of the Snake. Children born during the Year of the Snake are said to be clever, successful, and lonely. 3. Everyone goes home for the Chinese New Year celebrations, if they can. The period just before the Chinese New Year, called chunyun, is the busiest travel time of the entire year. All across China and beyond, you’ll find people on their way home to spend this time with their families. 4. The Chinese New...

Chinese New Year? Is it Real or Fake? This year’s Chinese New Year is going to be on: 2013 | 2013-02-10 | Snake (2013-02-10—2014-01-31) | | | | Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Year's Day itself, the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, to the...

Chinese New Year China is the first one of the cradles of world civilization, 5000 years of history makes China more powerful. There are many China's unique festivals, like Mid-Autumn Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Winter Festival and Chinese New year. Especially Chinese New Year remains the most important social and economic holiday in China. The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Beginning of Spring. Its origin is...

Happy Chinese New Year 新年快乐 (Snake) 蛇 Terrorized Village ● Demon/Dragon (Name shall not be spoken) "Nian" ● Villagers afraid, crops destroyed, children gone. ● Wise old man Year of the Snake (Zodiac Animals) ● ● ● ● 12 animals 12 months Great empire needed to tell time Trickery/betrayal The Amazing Race Paper Cutting ● Decoration ● Upsidedown ● Good Luck/Good Fortune ● ● 福- Fú http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTV6enoXUY Myth of the Lanterns ● ● ●...

Gabriela J. Bachman Professor Lathrop Writing 1 19 October, 2009 New Years at Home As I described in essay one, New Years for my family is a very important event and we celebrate it with a number of activities based in superstition. According to Wikipedia (1) superstition is defined as “a credulous belief, not based on reason. The word is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the irrational belief that future events can...

The Times of the New Year the new year started with joy and happy times. I ended the year with tears. My best friend was a drug addict and i had to help her into rehab. She did not want to go to rehab so we told her we were taking her to disneyland. She was so excited that she drove right home and packed her bags. Every country has their own holiday system. Different countries have different holidays. There are also some common holidays that people celebrate around the world, such as...

 New Year’s Eve: a comparison between China and Brazil. Raif Remígio Alves SBA, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. e-mail: raifalves@hotmail.com Introduction A moment to calm, review the contents of the past, to establish in the present and generate power to carry the future. Thus it is that most people around the world celebrate the new year, regardless of their country of origin, culture or financial condition. The New Year is always celebrated with much joy, peace and prosperity...

Choose to Dine at Home on the Eve of the Chinese New Year It is a traditional custom that the family members from everywhere hurry back home to join a big dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. It is a significant reunion. It is a traditional way to enjoy this at home. However, in recent years, many families have another choice of having dinner at restaurants. In my view, I prefer to have dinner at home. There are several reasons to justify my view, some of which are as follows. Firstly, it...

So,how much money am I getting this year?" That's the question I hit my momwith every February. And every year she replies, "You will see," in herChinese accent. February usually marks the month of the New Year accordingto the Chinese calendar. But for me, Chinese New Year is a payday. Usually Ireceive red envelopes, hong bao, which are the equivalent of Christmas presents.Instead of wondering what the present will be, though, it is the amount of moneyinside that is the mystery. The lucky...

Malaysia is a land known of its multicultural and the diversity of religions. As this country is made up of different races, the people of Malaysia inevitably celebrates a variety of festivals. To the Chinese, the most important festival is the Chinese New Year, which usually falls on the month of January or February. Before the festival, throngs of shoppers head for shops in search of mandarin oranges, new year tit bits, new clothes, plants like bamboos, money plants or little kumquat trees...

Please have your seats. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, I am honored to be the 2nd invocator in the year 2012 but the 1st invocator in the year of Dragon! Chinese New Year ushering in new hope for those who celebrating it, as we are turning a new leaf in our lives during New Year, in a sense, we are reborn. Thus, Chinese New Year is to celebrate the passing of the old and the coming of the new! Before the festival, the families start cleaning up their houses, washing and wiping every corner of...

Lunar New Year (Tet) in Vietnam Vietnamese Lunar New Year, commonly known by Vietnamese as Tết Nguyên Đán or Tet, is the most important and popular holiday and also festival in Vietnam. Do you know: Vietnam Lunar New Year 2012 will fall on January 23rd. 2012 is the year of Dragon About Tet Vietnamese Lunar New Year, commonly known by Vietnamese as Tết Nguyên Đán or Tet, is the most important and popular holiday and also festival in Vietnam. Similar to Lunar New Year in South...

Lunar New Year in Vietnam The Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, Tet Nguyen Dan, is the most significant holiday taking place within the first three days of the New Year. During these days, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. The preparation for Tet holiday is taken place very soon because it requires many steps. All members of families clean and redecorate their houses together. Then, they buy food such as cookies, sweets, candies fruit, watermelon’s seed...

Chinese New Year is really just around the corner. The Chinese will definitely be busy running errands to make sure that the Chinese New Year celebration is well prepared. Some may choose to start as early as a month before the celebration which also means the last month in the Lunar Calendar. This way, they get to plan things they need to have for the celebration and slowly distributing the tasks among the family members and then carry them out. Since Chinese New Year is the most important...

 Traditional celebration…. Tet falls on a time when the old year is over and the New Year comes by lunar calendar. This is also the time when the cycle of the universe finishes: winter ends and spring, the season of birth of all living things, comes. Tet is an occasion for pilgrims and family reunions. It is a time when one pays respect to his/her ancestors and grandparents who have brought up him/her. It is an occasion when everyone sends each other best wishes for a new year, stops thinking...

There are significant holidays to every country. Holiday is define as a day free from work that one may spend time to relax, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a stopping of general business activity to honor or celebrate a particular event. In religious term, it is a holy day. For example, American people celebrate holidays such as, Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hispanics celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and for Vietnamese people, we celebrate a very important holiday which is the...

LUNAR NEW YEAR IN VIETNAM [pic] Lunar New Year which is known as “Tet” is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It often begins on late January and ends on early February . It’s a special time for people to relax, forget all about the troubles, hope for a better new year and spend time together with their family and their friends after a hard working year. GET READY! [pic] Two weeks before the New Year’s Eve, family members try to come back...

JAPANESE NEW YEAR NEW YEAR IN JAPAN Oseibo In Japan people give some gift in a lot of occasion. Oseibo is the most common issue as a year-end gift. They give it to their superiors, customers and teachers to express appreciation for the special services they have extended to them. Picture Asakusa Temple (c) Tomoyuki.U. Bonenkai Bonenkai is a party usually held among office colleagues and bosses. Bonenkai litarelly means a "Forget-the-year party" to forget the unpleasant memories of the...

Vietnamese New Year Traditions New Year in Vietnam is not only a holiday but also the biggest event of the year. It is tradition of thousand years of history. In Vietnamese, New Year means Nam Moi or Tet Nguyen Dan, which also means “the very first morning”. Nevertheless, people commonly call it Tet as its short form. As traditionally, the holiday lasts three days, starting from January first on lunar calendar. However, the spirit of Tet starts on December twenty third, seven days before Tet’s...

Hung Truong ENGL 098 01/23/2013 Remembering an Event In Vietnam, just like here in the United States of America there are many holidays. But Vietnamese New Year is the biggest traditional holiday of the year. It is the first and last moments of a year and it’s a time for families to gather all together on New Year Eve with the firecrackers, special food. This also is the opportunity for students like me to meet old friends after one year abroad,...

How do Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival? The major four parts are paste couplet, family reunion dinner, Shousui, and Bainian. Couplet is people’s wishes for the next New Year written on the red paper, and pastes them on the wall beside the door. Another traditional couplet is the world “福” ,which is also written on the red paper; traditionally, we paste the word on the door upside down, Which means happiness is coming. The reasons for we choose the color red is because the monster...

[pic] [pic] Taiwanese Culture TABLE OF CONTENT I)Chinese New year 1)Introduction 2)The Chinese Calendar 3)History 4)Sequences of Festivies -Preceding days - New year’s eve -1st -15th day. -Cuisine. 5)Main Customs. 6)Seen as a public Holiday 7)Evolution II)Taiwanese Tea 1)Introduction 2)Historical Background 3)Taiwanese tea culture -Teaism -Teaware -Ceremony 4)Bubble tea 5)Tea approach and conclusion...

 HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT Name: Kha Thanh Trang Student number: 11CD660065 Class: CA1102 Advisor: Trần Mỵ Uyên Course: Term-paper (Writing) Every country has its own important festivals which have the customs characteristics and the different meaning. Western countries have some holidays such as Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas,… Korea has Harvest festival (Chuseok), Buddha’s birthday (Chopail),...

Julia Deegan Ngan Do Eva Fraga November 15, 2012 Compare and Contrast New Year Eve in Different Countries Wouldn't it be fun to travel around the world and celebrate the New Year all year long? All over the world, people celebrate the New Year; This is one of the oldest of all holidays. Most New Year celebrations focus on family and friends, food and traditions, but not all of the celebrations take place on the same day or in the same way! Because people in...

Chinese New Year or Spring Festivel is the most important celebration in China. As the name implies, it is January 1st in Chinese Lunar Calendar. It can be started several days before the New Year Day, usually it begins on December 23(Lunar), on this day, people eat a sticky candy and a congee what is cooked by eight grains or beans to celebrate the gain of last year, (and also eat a sticky candy, in legend, the god of stove will report every family states to the god of gods, people use this...

Phan Thanh Xuân Instructor: Trương Thị Kim Liên, M.A Writing 5 ( XH 527) September 26th, 2012. Hữu, N. & Borton, L. Frequently asked questions about Vietnamese culture: Vietnamese Lunar New Year. Hà Nội: Thế Giới Publishers, 2003. 116 pp. Culture is the aspect I’m especially interested in. And I find it amazing to read a cultural book in bilingual. It helps me to improve not only my knowledge, but also my new English vocabularies. Recently I have been impressed greatly by “Frequently...

Chinese culture 1. Chinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the...

Chinese Food Catalogue Story 1 Chinese Traditional Staple Food Story 2 Chinese Characteristic Cuisine Story 3 Chinese Festival Food ❶ Chinese Traditional Staple Food 中国传统主食 ⒈ rice （米饭） Rice is the most common staple food （主食） in china. Different areas have different type of rice ,it tastes different . Cooking method : boiling steaming （蒸） stir-frying （炒） ⒈ rice （米饭） Porridge rice fried ⒉ noodles （面条） Noodles is a very old food and it originated in china,has a long history.As a...

Spring Festival Chinese New Year holds the most significant position among all Chinese festivals and holidays. The Chinese New Year is accompanied by a belief in good future. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival (1). Putting the spring festival scrolls up, hanging the lanterns, having reunion meals, having dumplings, sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all Spring Festival’s customs. (2) Spring Festival is the day for family...

The Chinese Spring Festival The Chinese New Year or more commonly The Spring Festival (Chun Jie in Chinese) is the most important festival in China. It has more than four thousand years of history. It is based on the Chinese lunar calendar which all Chinese people use. The celebrations begin the first day of the first lunar month and end the 15th, although the most important day for Chinese people is new year eve, this day you have to be with your family and have dinner all together, so if...

Chinese Masks Chinese masks first appeared in China some 3,500 years ago primarily used for Chinese shamanism. Chinese masks became an age old cultural phenomenon shared by all ethnic groups in China. The Chinese developed such masks to overcome disasters and to protect their lives. These masks were given many functions like, communicating with the gods, bringing blessings, driving away ghosts, warding off diseases, and lots of sacrificial rituals involving masks were regularly held....

Chinese Food: Traditional Foods for Chinese Festival Chelsea Yu 15th, Sep, 2012 First Draft of Chapter 2, 3 Pages IE924 Academic Writing Ⅲ China is famous for foods, especially which must be prepared for traditional festivals. These foods are made with traditional recipes and related to their meaning, ancient legend or historical story, which are passed along generation to generation. Among these traditional foods, “Nian-gao”, ”Yuebing”, and “Zongzi” are representative. “Nian-gao”, a...

Chinese Lion Dance The lion dance is a traditional dance performed in the Chinese culture. The performers mimic the moves of the lion inside a costume that looks in a way like a lion. Many people who are not very familiar with the Lion Dance often gets it confused with the Dragon Dance, since both are performed, for the most part, for the same occasions. It is simple to tell the two dances apart. The Lion Dance is performed most of the time with only two people. The Dragon Dance is performed...

 Case Title The Chinese Fireworks Industry- revised Date October 8th 2012 1. Issue identification： Jerry Yu is considering whether to invest in Liuyang fireworks factory, so he made an evaluation of the Chinese firework industry. Here is a brief identification of the issue: 1.1 History of fireworks: There is an old-line of the Chinese fireworks, which is tightly combined with varieties of celebrations and festivals in China. Especially, Liuyang...

 An Unforgettable Day of a Special Year My father and I were at a local store searching for lanterns, lights and many other decorations. From afar, a long snaky line formed at the cashier all the way to entrance door. Everything will be bought in seconds. Everyone wanted his or her house to be decorated and magnificent. I still remember it was a year of lucky Dragon, back in 2012, a year that will bring longevity, wealth and happiness for one’s family in upcoming year. The very first day of...

2013 Comparative study of Pakistan and Chinese Cultures Muhammad Rashid (ID:2012420078) This report has compared the two cultures namely the Chinese and Pakistani culture by considering different parameters. The material and non-material aspects of culture are expressed and comparative study of two cultures is performed. Both the cultures have strong roots with the shades of thousands of years of civilizations. The ideology, ethics and living styles are compared with some examples and...

Operators need to re-adjust their products and services package to target the demand of the mass consumers rather than just the lucrative customers. Chinese aspiration to lead a healthy lifestyle is indeed another factor to direct their consumption to. Increasing average income indicates that Chinese are becoming more willing to pay for better quality to ensure improvement in their lifestyle as they have more disposable incomes. Visit Complete Report Here:...

Chinese University of Hong Kong Marketing Management, MKT2010 Marketing Xi Tang - a living ancient Chinese town Group 2 Instructor: Prof. Durairaj Maheswaran Table of contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Opportunity analysis 2.1 Company 3 2.2 Customer 4 2.3 Competitors 5 3. Market segmenting, targeting and positioning 3.1 Segmenting 6 3.2 Targeting 7 3.3 Positioning 7 4. Marketing Mix 4.1 Product features 8 4.2 Pricing strategy 9 4.3 Distribution 10 4.4 Promotion 10...

Vietnam is a country in the Eastern Hemisphere that was influenced by China for many years. Therefore, the Chinese New Year and Tet, the Vietnamese New Year have many similarities. Tet is the abbreviation of Tet Nguyen Dan which means the first morning of the first day of the new period. Tet marks the beginning of a new year on the lunar calendar, and the beginning of Spring. Vietnamese are constantly aware of the phases of the moon. All events are planned by the lunar calendar. The New Year...

Name: Nguyễn Thị Hồng Quế Student’s code: B1301522 Academic writing 3 E- mail: queB1301522@student.ctu.edu.vn Phone number:01218519596 Assignment: Process analysis essay Date of submission: 18/09/2014 TET HOLIDAY Tet , or Lunar New Year is considered one of the most popular festival in Vietnam. This special holiday takes place on January 1st based on Lunar Calendar. Tet is an occasion for people gather their family, express their respect to...

Ancient Ritual Research Paper Ancient rituals have been around since prehistoric time. They have been a very important part of human life and were performed with the intention of improving the universe itself. Rituals are also a form of social bonding that contains spiritual meanings. Cultures have different rituals to celebrate important events. These rituals may be different in the sense that the rituals are performed differently but they both share the same idea which is to celebrate and...

S01: Good morning everybody. Today we will be sharing about our experiences at Chingay 2014. What does the theme mean to us? S02: (E) The different performances are all traditional, but merge and fade in together very well. This shows that the different culture, tradition and origin don't matter, as they are all together on one parade and with the same audience. The different colours and symbolism of their costumes were all fit in together very nicely. This may be said that the colours of...

 PHUONG Tet Holiday According to the lunar calendar, the next Jan. 30, 2014, no matter what you do, and where you are, you must come home. That day is the Lunar New Year Festival that we call Chinese New Year Day in China and Tet in Vietnam. On New year ‘s Eve (Jan. 30,2014), people are very busy to prepare for the new year by cooking for the next three days. Housewives are busy to prepare traditional square glutinous rice cake which is filled with green bean paste and pork meat...

Samantha Phan Professor Reams Section 11 March 19, 2012 Student Self-Evaluation For my informative speech I chose the topic of Chinese New Years. I discussed about the history, the festivities and the calendar. While reviewing my speech I found some mistakes that I can change for better improvement for future speeches. As I listened to myself I can tell that I was really nervous and trembling. With those two actions it did affect my speech and how I came off to the audience. First, my...

Cultural characteristics of Singaporeans Singapore's openness and cultural diversity has helped Singaporeans look at the world from different angles. This has resulted in the picking of the best ideas from different cultures and integrating them into the Singapore culture, while maintaining a good cultural mix. Therefore, in a culturally diverse country like Singapore, racial and religious harmony is very critical. Without it there would be no unity and strength, which would in turn,...

 1/28/14 My Hometown My hometown is Kaiping, it is located in the southwest part of Guangdong province. Although is not a big city, but it is a very beautiful and warm city. It is located in the southwest part of Guangdong province. I have been lived there for thirteen years, until four years ago our family moved to San Francisco. I love to live in kaiping and I miss the time that I live in kaiping, for the environment is so comfortable and it around by greens. Like trees, flowers,...

The most important holiday celebrated in Vietnam, and indeed by Vietnamese people worldwide, is Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Tet is commonly described as Christmas, Thanksgiving and your birthday all celebrated at once. The second most celebrated Vietnamese holiday is the Mid-Autumn Festival. This celebration honors the harvest time and family. There are many other Vietnamese holidays, religious and non-religious, wide-spread and local, influenced by Chinese culture or unique to Vietnam. Most...

 Christmas (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ[6][7] and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 25[3][4][5] by millions of people around the world.[ New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.[1] The New Year of...

Chinese New Year’s Tradition Every year on varying dates, the cycle for the Chinese begins. Also known as, their new year. This cycle is dependent on the first day of the lunar month. This is because the Chinese run on a Lunar and Gregorian calendar. How did this come about? According to an ancient legend, people were once tormented by a beast called a Nian - a ferocious creature with an extremely large mouth, capable of swallowing several people in a single bite. Relief from the Nian came...

Busiest or happiest? Every year in the first day of the first lunar month is our Lunar New Year, which we usually called the Spring Festival, the most historical festival in China, which can be traced back to 4000 years ago.The new year is a new beginning, a fresh start to our new life. So the Spring Festival considered the most important festival in China. The procedure of the festival is defiantly complicated, but for a better understanding about it we need to start with the...

Personal Experience in Communication Interpersonal communications can be defined in many ways, but most effectively it involves the interactions and communications that occur between people that work, live or associate with each other .These people typically include the communications one has with people they are familiar with or know well, or may see on a daily basis. I feel it is critical for us to know how to communicate well as conveying our message and for it to be understood is...

1. Santos and Roth: Both are about immigration and their life. Even though it was hard but with good memories. Like all immigrant, they came to this country for better 2. Alice Walker “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the self” 55-61 3. Annie Dillard “An American Childhood” 110-116 Respond: Analyze Dillard’s character study of her mother – indirectly, of herself 4. Exercise #1 earlier memory – Chinese New Year Memories of Chinese New Year Growing up hapa meant...

Festival writing Everyone has their own festival to celebrate. As a Chinese, I always celebrate different festival like the Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. However, the festival which I anticipate and put in my effort to prepare for it will be the annual Chinese New Year. Whenever Chinatown is aglow with flamboyant lights, and the laughter and banter of eager shoppers fill the air, it is a clear sign that the welcoming Chinese New Year is approaching once again....

Spring Festival and Lantern Festival By Yolanda The Spring Festival, also known as the lunar new year, which falls in late January or early February. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the “Winter Sacrifice”. And the word “Nian”, which in modern Chinese solely means year, was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a New Year. So people hang“good luck”wishes on red paper on the door and wall, use...

Secular and Sacred Festivals Halloween was initially celebrated by the Romans, who prayed to several gods on the 31st October. The Romans specifically took Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees, into concern and would celebrate in her name. Later, the Druids, an ancient order of Celtic priests in Britain, made this feast an even more extensive celebration by also honouring Samhain, lord of the dead. This was normally done on November 1st and it was therefore decided to conveniently honour both...

Spring festival In China, New Year's Day is a solemn occasion. Every family performs religious rites at the family altar. In order to rejoice at the New Year, people wished others a happy new year and blessed heartily. Some stick calligraphies full of joy on doors, most of them were antithetical couplet, phrase, individual character, such as: blessing, longevity, luckiness, propitious New Year and so on. Whereas, some people pasted paper-cuts for window decorations to do away with the...

Spring Festival is the most joyful festival in China, and it is also the day of a family member reuniting. Do you want to know that Chinese how to celebrate this festival? Putting the spring festival scrolls up, hanging the lanterns, having the reunion meals, having dumplings, sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all the Spring Festival’s custom. All the activities contain the nice blessings and willing. For instance, eating fishes during the festival express that they...

Fiestas in the Philippines are held to celebrate a patron saint or to mark the passage of the seasons, depending on which part of the country you're in. The fiesta is part and parcel of Filipino culture. Each city and barangay has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint. The roots of Philippine fiestas go back to before the Spanish conquistadores arrived in the 1500s. In the old animistic culture, regular ritual offerings were made to placate the gods,...

The Construction of a United Great China A Comparative Study of the CCTV Spring Festival Galas, 1984-86 and 2004-06 Xiaoyan Xu Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Political Science Dr. Timothy W. Luke, Chair Dr. Scott G. Nelson Dr. Yannis Stivachtis June 7, 2007 Blacksburg, VA Keywords: China, TV, CCTV, Spring Festival, ideology,...

KFC: continue to increase localization, pushing spicy Sichuan chicken Various cities in China Kendejichuan spicy chicken on television ads starting from October 27 .10 scale appears, the product was launched. At the same time to market a product in China have another breakfast food, wolfberry Pumpkin porridge. The introduction of spicy Sichuan chicken only in the McDonald's "face" strategy of one month, and advertising intensity is very high, so we can respond to competition as this is a...

Red Envelope & Hong Bao Chinese have their own New Year by using old calendar, the new year is commonly called Spring Festival. Every year is different if you compare with the calendar we are using right now. The New Year in this year is the 9th of Feburary. Chinese Spring Fesitival is a great happy time for family reunion and celebration of one country. During the Chinese traditional New Year, it is a time to give and receive the Red Envelope, we called it as “Hong Bao” in Chinese. The gift...

Describing festivals in Malaysia Malaysia is a land known of its multicultural and multireligious culture. As this country is made up of different races, it inevitably celebrates a variety of festivals. To the Chinese the most important festival is the Chinese New Year, which usually falls on the month of January or February. Before the festival, throngs of shooppers head for shops in search of oranges, new year titbits, new clothes and etc. The Chinese also make it a point to settle all...

Topic: My Favourite Festival Good morning to my English teacher, Miss Zarina and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to share with you about my favourite festival, which is Chinese New Year. Of all festivals in Malaysia, I like Chinese New Year the most. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Each year coincides with an animal sign, of which there are twelve in the sequence of the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, dog...

FESTIVAL The Lion Dance is one of the most popular dances in China. Known as the king of animals, the lion is a traditional symbol of good luck in China. The dance has a long history stretching back 2000 years. Records show that during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Lion Dance was already performed for the royal family.When is the Lantern festival occassions, people often organize lion dance to add to the fun. If well performed, the lion dance is belived to bring luck and happiness....

I am Thai, but inside I am also Chinese “My hometown China, I’m so sad that I had to leave you”, is a part of the song I heard all the time when I was little, and I still remember it. Not much is known about my background; I only know that I am actually Chinese. I could have cared less about it because I was born and raised in Thailand, and I considered myself Thai until my mom told me about my grandparents. My grandfather used to be a doctor in a small communist camp in China. He didn’t like...

Week 1 Day1 The first shot 26th,Jan sunny It is my first time to writy diary in English.Forgive for my poor writing .I suddenly find it is difficult to construct an article and express my ideas properly. However ,there is no provement if I have no chance to use English .So I have a plan. I will keep diaries every day from then on. Welcome to supervise! This week I translated 6 articles reported in The Economist,4 for this week,2 for last week .It is a good way to improve my reading...

General information: Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. Lunar because it s based on a lunisolar calendar (moon phase and solar year) and spring because it s the beginning of Spring. You celebrate the first day of the chinese calendar, but basically it s a long chinese holiday starting from the first day until the Lantern Festival on the last day. It is the time to honor deities and ancestors. New year´s days are celebrated as a family affair and a...

IB Business 17 December 2013 Chinese Almond Cookies (or Biscuits) The Chinese almond cookie is a traditional Chinese dessert that people make during the Chinese New Year. Many different types of foods are made to celebrate this holiday, and this almond cookie is a very typical one. The foods that the Chinese make to celebrate are foods that are they consider to be lucky and foods that are generally supposed to bring blessings in for the New Year. These almond cookies symbolize coins and...

Everybody, XinNianKuaiLe. Maybe some of you guys already know what this Chinese mean. It is literally translated to the greeting “happy Chinese new year” in English. Today is the Chinese New Year (Yeh). Chinese New Year is the most important traditional holiday in China. Despite its winter occurrence, Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival in China. The festival begins on the first day of the first month, which is today, and ends on the 15th day of that month. As I had mentioned,...

 Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival (Shangyuan) is a traditional Chinese festival, which is on the 15th of the first month of Chinese New Year and the first full moon night which symbolizes the coming of spring. It may be regarded as the last day of the Spring Festival. The start of this festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year. The Lantern Festival is regarded as a good day for family...

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival for all Chinese people; since 1983, Chinese families have sat down to wrap dumplings and watch CCTV’s New Year’s Gala on television on Chinese New Year's Eve. It’s a Chinese New Year’s Eve tradition that nearly every family in China participates in to ring in the New Year. It brings so much happiness to Chinese all around the world in the past twenty years. WHEN: For every year since then at the turn of the Lunar New Year, the program begins at...

Our Lives Versus Firecrackers Bong! Bong! Bong! These are the typical sounds one would hear passing by a Chinatown around February of every year. Indeed, these are the sounds of firecrackers, which are distinctive features Chinese people use to welcome a new beginning on Chinese New Year. However, can anyone imagine how many people have died or have been injured by these explosive features? According to a report, a firecracker storage area in China caught fire which caused the death of...

Japan Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions. Some festivals have their roots in Chinese festivals but have undergone dramatic changes as they mixed with local customs. Some are so different that they do not even remotely resemble the original festival despite sharing the same name and date. There are also various local festivals that are mostly unknown outside a given prefecture. It is commonly said that you will always find a festival somewhere in Japan. Unlike most people in...