Well, we must deserve the award for worst family- we forgot about Chinese New Year on Saturday!! Actually, we did celebrate Chinese New Year with our local FCC group, but that was back in January! So, on Monday night we ordered in some Chinese food and I dressed the girls in some of their (many!) Chinese outfits and they went with me to pick it up. They were so excited to go and get the "China food!" Unfortunately, our local Chinese restaurant isn't all that nice and they hardly noticed Esther and Emma who were trying so hard to get their attention. But, the girls didn't really care, they were just glad to get the food! (I think we'll start visiting other local Chinese restaurants-maybe they'll be nicer!)But... the girls enjoyed some tasty Chinese cuisine and dressing up in their outfits. They're still too young to understand what CNY is all about, but once they're older I'm sure we'll start the traditions of giving them money/gifts in red envelopes like they do in China. Who knows!
Chinese New Year is a huge celebration in China and lasts at least a week! I think this year they're celebrating from February 17-24. Everything in China shuts down while they celebrate and it's like a huge week long Christmas/New Year's/ 4th of July over there!! 2007 is the Year of the Pig- although we don't really get into any of the Chinese astrology.
Anyways, Happy Chinese New Year or Gong Xi Fa Cai!
1 comment:
actually it lasts for about two weeks.
The girls look so cute.
For Chinese new year we usually just spend it with family. Red clothes are worn for good luck.
The kids have to say Gong xi fa cai to get a red envelope from a grown up.
round things are lucky especially oranges. after dinner we eat sweets to bring in a sweet new year.
There is to be no cleaning on new years or new years eve so as not to wash away all the luck.
Also usually on new years day no cooking and just eating leftovers from the night before.
I'm sorry the people at the restaraunt were not very nice.
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