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1.What zodiac year it is?

老虎

2.Which zodiac animal represents the year you were born? How about your family members?

我－黄牛  妈妈－老虎  爸爸－兔子   弟弟－兔子

3. When is Chinese New Year? (use Lunar calendar) When is Chinese New Year for this year? (use Lunar calendar or Solar calendar)

During the spring festival

4. How do people prepare and celebrate the New Year?

They launch fireworks and put red lanterns all over the city.

5. How do people prepare and celebrate Christmas?

Nearly every country in the world.

6. What do northern Chinese people eat for Chinese New Year?

They eat dumplings.

7. What is a red envelope?

A red envelope is an item people use to store money in to give to children.

8. What are spring couplets?

Spring couplets are the red signs you hang on your door.

9. Why do people put “fu” on their door upside down?

We put fu upside down because in an ancient myth it saved one mans life.

10. What kind of greeting or wish might you greet people with during the New Year?

“gong xi fa cai”

11. What else do you know about Chinese New Year?

Chinese new year is the time of the year that the mythological monster nian is supposed to come out and eat humans.

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