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Chinese New Year

Something about Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year 中国新年 is called Spring Festival 春节 in China.

Here is some culture knowledge about Chinese New Year.

  • The story about the order of twelve animals 十二生肖排序的故事-in English

  • What we do and what we don't do during the Chinese New Year 中国新年我们应该做什么,不应该做什么. -in English

 

           Please note: This film was made in year 2008 which is the year of RAT 鼠， but the coming new year is the year of Rabbit 兔

  • Spring Festival 春节-in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles

  • Fancy Lantern 灯彩-in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles

           

  • Lantern festival-元宵节-in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles

          

  • Lion dance-舞狮-in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles

           

  • Dragon-龙-in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles

         

  •   Paper cut-剪纸-in Chinese with both Chinese and English subtitles

          

  • Story about 'nian'-‘年’的故事-in English (This is for kids but still very interesting)

           

  • Finally,  you can learn some Spring festival vocabulary with the following video