Chinese New Year 2010
Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival (Chūnjíe / 春节). The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month and ends on the fifteenth day. This year is the year of the Tiger.
Upper IV children have been busy writing good luck messages (húichūn / 挥春) for our Chinese New Year display. Two of the friendly and experienced tutors from the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester paid us a special visit to show us how to make Chinese lanterns and traditional Chinese paper cutting. As the pictures show, the children really had a wonderful experience.
These two Chinese characters are pronounced as dàjí, which mean ‘Good Luck’.
This single Chinese character is pronounced as fú, which means ‘fortune’.
Our lanterns are gradually taking shape.
Do you like our colourful lanterns?
Traditional paper cutting is a form of popular craftwork from China.
These children are totally focused and hard at work.
- Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival. This character is pronounced as chūn, which means ‘spring’.
A tiger mask for the year of the Tiger.
The pattern on the forehead of the tiger mask represents the king of the forest. 王, which means king, is pronounced as wáng.
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