Chinese New Year Explanation

Why is the chinese new year a very old tradition?

Kung Hei Fat Choi means Happy New Year in Chinese. Every year Chinese New Year is held in China and many different countries. It starts on a new moon. So, this year it started on February 16th.

On February 16th Chinese New Year for 2018 began. The Chinese people celebrate with a traditional feast and end it with a lantern festival. Each year is named after an animal. To decide the order of the animals, the animals had a race to see which animal will be the Animal of the Year. For 2018 the animal that we have is a Dog. This is also the animal for 2006 / 1994 / 1982 /1970 and 1958. The Dog has three meanings which are responsibility, being serious, it also represents being loyal.

Chinese New Year finishes after 15 days. So since Chinese New Year started February 16th this year it will finish on the 2nd of March. On the last day they have a lantern festival. In the lantern festival they have many lanterns in different shapes. They also make the lantern fly away or make it float on the water. For 2018 they are going to hold the Lantern Festival in Auckland at the Domain.

Chinese New Year starts on the first day of a new moon, this year it started on February 16th. Every year Chinese New Year is held in China and in many other different countries, once again Kung Hei Fat Choi which means Happy New Year in Chinese.

This week for writing we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We watched a video that had some information about Chinese New Year. I actually found out a lot of things about Chinese New Year. My partner was Sky. We created a explanation about Chinese New Year. Mrs Anderson also taught us a new language structure which was TIIC. T meant Title, I meant Introduction, I meant Information and C meant Conclusion. Using this will help me plan my ideas when I am writing an explanation.