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Tourists wait to board a train at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station to return home for Chinese Lunar New Year holiday in Shanghai on Jan 25, 2025. Photo by CFOTO/ Future Publishing via Getty Images. What are the animals of the zodiac? Each year honors an animal based on the Chinese zodiac. The circle of 12 animals — the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig — measure the cycles of time. For Chinese people, Lunar New Year is the Spring Festival, and it’s celebrated widely in Taiwan and across Southeast Asia in countries with large Chinese populations, such as Singapore and Malaysia. Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is a festive celebration that marks the beginning of the lunar new year. In medieval China, the holiday was celebrated with dragon and lion dances, fireworks, and the exchange of red envelopes filled with money. Let's delve into the numbers, particularly the surge in “dragon babies”. In 2024, during the Year of the Dragon, China witnessed a 5.7% year-on-year increase in births, with South Korea seeing a 3% rise. These spikes are noteworthy, considering both nations are grappling with declining birth rates. The seventh day of the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2025) is said to be when the Chinese mother goddess, Nuwa, created humanity. Thus, it’s called renri/jan jat (the people’s birthday). Pre-Chinese New Year Preparations and Activities (Jan. 7–Feb. 12, 2025) Jan. 7, 2025: Laba Festival. Some Chinese start to celebrate and prepare for Chinese New Year as early as day 8 of the 12 th month of the lunar calendar. This is a festival called Laba ( 腊八 Làbā /laa-baa/ '12th lunar month' + '8'), in the traditional sense, which The Chinese New Year of 2025 falls on January 29th (Wednesday), and will last to February 2nd. It is the Year of Snake. As an official public holiday, Chinese people can get eight days' off from work, from January 28th to February 4th. The Chinese New Year of 2026 falls on February 17th (Tuesday), and will last to February 21th. It is the Year The words Yuandan and Xinnian were created to mark the turn between two years. Towards Tang and Song Dynasties, the celebration was given a name Yuanri. In the flourishing Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD), the function of Chinese New Year had shifted from worshiping and praying to social entertainment. People got public holidays for staying with The origin of the Chinese New Year Festival can be traced back to about 3,500 years ago. Chinese New Year has evolved over a long period of time and its customs have undergone a long development process. A Legend of the Origin of Chinese New Year. Like all traditional festivals in China, Chinese New Year is steeped with stories and myths. Chinese new year activities for middle school. This list of chinese new year activities for middle school students are best and fun to explore: 1. Write wishes for the New Year on red paper. 2. Celebrate with a Chinese New Year feast. 3. Play traditional Chinese games like Mah Jong or Go. 4. Take a Chinese New Year photo booth. 5. It covers Chinese New Year traditions, such as cleaning the house, making food like rice cakes and tofu, the lion dance, and fireworks. There is some overlap with the 过年啦 book (reviewed below). Compared to 过年啦 3-D book, 欢乐中国年 / 歡樂過新年 Chinese New Year Pop-up book is slightly wordier and more challenging to read Lunar New Year starts with the new moon that happens in late January or February. Celebrations continue for 15 days and culminate with a Lantern Festival. In Chinese culture, 2025 will mark the year of the snake. There are many symbols and traditions associated with Lunar New Year, including special foods, dragon and lion dances, fireworks Chinese Symbols for “Happy New Year” and other ones associated with good luck. Prep. 1. If you don’t have access to red paper plates, glue red construction paper to regular paper plates. 2. Cut a hole in the center of each plate. Directions. 1. Introduce the idea of Chinese New Year and the mythology presented along with it which may be called the Chinese Middle Ages, roughly from A.D. 316, the date of the partition of north and south following the nomad inva-sions, down to the end of the Sung Dynasty in A.D. 1278. This period of nearly a thousand years is considered by the Communist philosophy of history to be " feudal" and no real change in the social structure The rebel leader founded a new dynasty, called the Ming, and a new era in China’s long history began. Medieval developments in Chinese civilization. This was a period in which the foundations laid down in the ancient period were tested and refined, to emerge as the quintessential features of Chinese civilization in later imperial times. Maisy’s Chinese New Year by Lucy Cousins; My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz; Ten Mice for Tet by Pegi Deitz Shea and Cynthia Weill, illustrated by Ngọc Trang Tô and Phạm Viết Đinh; This Next New Year by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by Yangsook Choi; Songs. Five Little Firecrackers – The Librarian Is On the Loose In most of Europe during the Middle Ages, New Year's Day was celebrated on March 25. This date marked both the beginning of spring and the Feast of the Annunciation, a special day dedicated to Mary. 2025 is the Year of the Snake, and this informative PowerPoint provides many fun and age-appropriate facts about the Chinese New Year, snakes in Chinese culture, and snakes! The Year of the Snake slithers its way into our celebrations on the 29th of January 2025 as Chinese New Year begins, bringing with it opportunities to inspire curiosity 21 China in the Middle Ages The medieval period in China, spanning from the 6th to the 15th century, was a time of significant transformation and interaction between the Chinese civilization and the nomadic steppe peoples.
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