Class: BBA 12
Student ID: F12418001
My favorite Chinese Event
Chinese new year is one of my favorite Chinese event, the reason why is, the culture behind it is so interesting, at first I want to talk about the Chinese zodiac, we know that we also have zodiac determined by a star, but Chinese zodiac is different, every year is a different zodiac, there’s 12 zodiacs, they take animal as the symbol of it, why? Once I heard the story about this 12 chinese zodiacs, the heaven (Chinese heaven) makes competition, a race competition, and they will choose 12 animal to attend the race, the first one who complete the race will be the first one in the Chinese zodiac, and mouse win it, followed by cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, and so on, Chinese people believe, every year is different for every zodiac, some zodiac will get a good luck in this year, and vice versa. They usually go to the temple to pray, praying for a good fortune this year, and give a fruit or some cakes as a sacrifice. Not only that, in Chinese new year it’s the time for family to reunited, relatives from far away will come home to meet their family members, my grandmother and my grandfather is a Chinese, so every year we will celebrate it by having a big feast, (the same like thanks giving in western culture), traditionally Chinese new year is to respect our ancestor by coming to their grave, and give them our respect, and also in this event we usually clean our house, they say is to drive away bad fortune, and hope for good fortune go inside. The clothes in this event usually red colored because red means fortune, so people usually wear red clothes in this event, and the best thing for children in Chinese new year is, the red paper or we can say Hong Pao. Hong pao is a red paper cut and parents or relative who already married put money inside, and give it to their family members who isn’t married yet, I love this one because every year I get a lot of money, I can buy this and that