Have you ever heard of festivals or even ceremonies? Well if
you have been to a wedding, you have been to a ceremony. One of the
Chinese festivals is Chinese New Year. Its the most important.
There is the Chinese boat festival, and the age ceremony. Do you
want to learn about it? Then read this book.
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Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is one of the most special
and one of the most important festival for the Chinese. Another
thing to call Chinese New Year is the spring festival. On Chinese
New Year kids get red evolves with money inside them. They get it
for a good luck new year. They celebrate Chinese New Year because
it brings the family to a good start. And a good luck year.
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Chinese Dragon Festival Have you ever heard that a dragon is
one of Chinas favorite animals? On Chinese Dragon festival revolves
around the sport of Dragon boat racing. You can sign up to race.
And on that special day all they only celebrate is dragons because
its Chinas favorite animal. Dragon boat racing is when people go in
boats that are decorated by dragons and they go in boats and race
each other.
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Age Ceremonies Age Ceremonies is celebrating the day they
became adults. Tridishonily Chinese men became adults at the age of
20 at the capping ceremony. Woman became adults at the age of 15 at
the hairpin ceremony. And both ceremonies were traditional in
ancient China.
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Lantern Festival Have you ever heard of lantern festival? Its a
festival they do at night in the dark. They do not put on any
light. The only thing they use for light is lanterns. And the
lanterns they use are cool ones with dragons on them. Everyone gets
only one lantern, to be fair. They celebrate that they have light.
And they are very lucky to have lanterns.
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Did you learn a lot? Are you going to celebrate Chinese New
Year? And are you going to sign up to race on lantern festival and
not use light just use lanterns? Maybe you should, it will be
really fun!