Informative Speech On Chinese New Year

They wouldn’t get to eat as much food. They wouldn’t be enjoying their precious time with their family. Instead they would be working hard in the fields to earn a sufficient living wage. But Chinese New Year was a time when they felt they were on top. They thought that they were living the high life. They “all looked forward to, the one time when we would be guaranteed wonderful food, was the Chinese New Year.” It was one joyous occasion that helped them to endure their destitute lives.

First, Chinese Americans preserve their ethnic identities through holidays. One of the biggest holidays is the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is different from the regular New Years in that it relies on the moon cycles instead of the western calendar, so it falls on different days each year. There is a lot of preparation that goes into the Chinese New Year. People start cleaning their houses and decorating them with spring couplets on the twentieth day of the twelfth moon. Spring couplets are short poems written on red scrolls of paper in black. A popular New Years tradition in the United States is the exchanging of red envelopes containing money, which are called hong-bao. Most families spend this holiday celebrating together because this holiday, above others, emphasizes family and family ties.

Animals have always felt like a big part of me. I believe animals are just as important as humans in society. For me, it’s sad to see how pandas are slowly, but surely, going extinct. I find it a privilege that by going to China, I get to help all of the pandas in the Panda Base camp. I hope that someday, all of the extinct animals will soon come back. Or at least most of them. It’s hard for me to think that if us humans don’t act soon, the animals that are slowly dying out will soon be gone forever. It just so happens, that pandas and

The first section "January Thaw" mainly has to do with winter coming to an end with spring right around the corner. The skunk wakes up from hibernating throughout the winter. Some of the animals are described as being happy that spring is coming and other animals are sad that spring is coming. The main theme is the " freedom from want and fear". The mouse was sad about the flooded tunnels. The tunnels are flooded because the snow is melting as winter gets closer to an end. Mice view snow as freedom from predators because the mice used these tunnels for protection. The mice may not know why snow falls but they do know that they can use it for tunnels. This section is great because it talks about the animals that are lower in the food chain having

To begin, Have you ever wonder who came up with the calendar we have today? Before the current calendar, we have today there were many different kinds of calendars. When there weren't any calendars, people used the sun, planet, moon, and stars to figure out the season, month, and year. There were many calendars before the current one we have today. One example was the Iraq calendar. The Iraq calendar had divided the days into 12 periods. There were also many errors in the making of calendars, like the Gregorian calendar. Other calendars predicted a lot of things. The Mayan calendar claimed that the world will end on December 21, 2012. These different calendars represent the culture during the ancient times.

There were accepted systems for the division of time into day, months and years. Calendars reflect a human effort to measure and order the extended period of time for the future. Without the human effort we probably wouldn’t know the time of day, months and years. This brought satisfactory to represent the ordering of life.

Turtles swim off to warmer waters and squirrels gather acorns .It would be fun to get a chance to see a month in the middle of the year illustrated, during fall, winter, or spring and see what animals do. This book is for kindergartners or starting readers and is an extremely imaginative and genuine source of what occurs during the winter. I trust that this book would be a good tool in helping children hard of hearing to see the animals and the seasons. It will also help the children see the progress that the earth and its animals experience. For an extension activity, the children can read and gather information about their loved animal and what they do in the winter. It is important to talk about what occurs in the winter and how you respond to it. What occasions occur in the winter? Is it darker in the winter? Do you like winter and

The one cultural practice from my home culture to me keep alive and continue to practice in the Unite Stare is Lunar New Year. The three things I still continue to practice are eating traditional food in New Year’s Eve Feast, offering sacrifices to ancestors and Celebrate the Lantern Festival. First, during the New Year’s Eva Feast is a “must do” dinner with all family members reuniting, people from North and South China eat different food on New Years Eve and many New year foods have their own symbolic, in Northern China a traditional dish for the feast is jiaozi(dumplings). They shaped like old Chinese ingots, symbolizing wealth. Southern Chinese eat niangao(sticky rice cake) on this special day, because niangao south like “yearly higher”

New Year is one of the highlights of the year. For many, it is a time they spend with their loved one and count down until midnight to start the first day of the new year. New Year means new hopes, new adventures, new opportunities, and most importantly new beginnings. Every new year brings a great story for us to begin. All around the world, people celebrate the new year and start a fresh year that is filled with happiness and joy. For example, some celebrate Rosh Hashanah, which is the Jewish new year that is celebrated on September 20th, or Chinese New Year, which is celebrated between January 21st and February 20th. There so many other new years that each country and culture celebrates every year.

People hardly celebrate the New Year 's Day now. To them it 's just an additional Sunday because it feels like a weekend or something like that. Since Christmas is more attracting, then the new year 's day will be absolutely knocked out? I know Christmas makes so much sense. But it sounds unfair to the new year 's day, isn 't it? There are so many important things that you can do. For example, you stay up to watch the clock striking and then go to bed or relish the thought of a brand new year, brand new opportunities and a brand new start. It 's just like you are given a new life, when you open your diary you start on a brand new page of 2009 and you can write anything you like on it! You will have so much fun, won 't you? It actually means a lot, I guess. Why do people hit the road on Christmas? Oh the other hand, they would like to say, um, well, you know, "what 's the big deal for the New Year 's day. No one 's going to celebrate it. " Oh my golly gosh! I think the new year 's day deserve your attention better. In my hometown, the arrival of the new year usually means a huge celebration with lots of fireworks. It is an especially big deal because of the large number of soldiers living in the area. I guess it will be quiet this year due to the current situation-dry weather. The year 2008 has been an important year for my hometown since records have been kept. My mom and dad will go to bed early and get up early to eat their jiaozi (dumplings). Most of the young people

While walking through the New York City, the scene of a bustling workday and the towering steel skyscrapers transformed into a scene of jubilant children playing with miniature dragons surrounded by old brick buildings decorated with red lanterns and firecrackers. Red paper, ash, burnt-out firecrackers, and bits of lettuce covered the smoky streets. Adults conversed and smoked, while they watched the children dance in a line to an inaudible beat. Restaurants were packed with people purchasing arrays of meats, snacks, and delectable cakes to eat and share with friends and family. It was the first day of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Lunar Calendar in the year 2000.

The joy and jubilation of inching closer to a new year is quite palpable. No individual whether young or old is left untouched with the positive vibe that wafts in the air. In fact preparation of welcoming the new year begins from a week before. People all over the world wait enthusiastically for new year's eve. This is another time of of the year when they get to be with friends and relatives and enjoy to the core. Welcoming the new year in a grand way is a practice followed worldwide. Every religion, no matter how conservative it may be, gears up to embrace it with gaiety and fervor. Like festivals, the new year eve is also a much-awaited occasion. In fact, it is no less than a festival when hopes afloat and we we all wish for something good for us and our friends and relatives. Whether you are a single, dating someone, or have a family, here are the best ways to utilize new year's eve and welcome new year in style.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around mid or late September in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumn and spring equinoxes (chūn fēn 春分) of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncak The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in Chinese calendar, the other being the Chinese New Year, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvest season on this day. Traditionally, on Mid-Autumn Day, Chinese family members and friends will get together to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as eating moon cakes outside under the moon, carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns, burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang'e, planting Mid-Autumn trees, collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members and Fire Dragon Dances.e, of which there are many different varieties.

Although some people say the festival is not a tradition or a cultural festival, but that is not true because since B.C dog meat eating has been something known and common in the north and then it immigrated and moved to the south, and dogs were raised in households for either one of the three reasons; a watch dog, a friendly pet, or to be butchered and eaten. However, with the development of Buddhism, it had prevented the slaughter of animals in general and dogs in specific because of its loyalty and love to human beings. People started celebrating the festival starting 2009; although dog meat eating has been going around in China for centuries. Chinese people believe that dog meat eating hydrates the body and helps it tolerate the high temperature in hot summer days, and that explains the timing of the festival; where it takes place from the 21st to the 30th of June, marking the hottest days of summer in China.

Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar, and is on the first day of the first month on that lunar calendar. There are 12 different animals that make up the Chinese New Year, and also define what year the festival will be (e.g. “year of the monkey”). The twelve animals are the dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig, rat, oxen, tiger, and rabbit. The festivities have duration of 15 days, and are celebrated by Chinese throughout the globe, with special Chinese decorations decorating houses. Throughout the festivities, those celebrating conduct activities, such as eating traditional Chinese food, spending time with relatives and loved ones, enjoy fireworks shows, sit back and watch traditional Chinese shows, and plan the forthcoming year. The festivities pay respect to the heavens, the earth, deceased family members and ancient Chinese gods.