Chinese New Year story

Chinese New Year

Kung hei fat choi! (Happy Chinese New Year), this year symbolizes the year of the dog. The Chinese New Year is well known today but, how did it start off?

In the beginning it is said that Chinese New Year wasn’t celebrated, the reason being because of a monster named Nian who terrorised Chinese people on the first moon of every year.

The monster did that for a long time until a wise old man told the people about Nian’s three fears; Fire, the colour red and loud noises.

The next time that the Chinese New Year came they were prepared,

and so as soon as Nian arrived the people were covered in red coloured clothes,

lit fireworks, made loud noises from hitting their drums.

Nian then ran away and so every year as a celebration people wear red clothes, light fireworks and make loud noises by hitting drums.

One day the Jade Emperor decided to make animals take part in a race, the race was to decide what twelve animals would be on the Chinese New Year zodiac.

The animal that came first was the Rat, followed by an Ox and a Tiger.

After them came a Rabbit, a Dragon, a Snake, A Horse, a Goat, a Monkey, a Rooster, a Dog and a Pig.

People also celebrate Chinese New Year by giving Hong Bao to unmarried adults and children, inside of the Hong Bao there is supposed to be money.

They also eat food like egg rolls, noodles and shrimp. The foods represent (in order) wealth, healthiness and happiness.

This is what has happened or is happening to create the Chinese New Year that we know today.

On Monday we researched Chinese New Year. We watched a video that told us about Chinese New Year and then went to get a vivid to write on a piece of paper and we took notes on the piece of paper with our partner. After that we used our chromebook to write about the Chinese New Year and my teacher told my partner to ask me questions and if I knew the answer then I could type it in the text box.