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Welcome back
to school
How was your winter vocation?
Free Talk
What comes to your mind when talking about your winter vocation?
Chinese New Year
Test
The Year of the Rabbit
兔 年
Lucky money
Fireworks
paper cuttings
dragon dance
压岁钱
烟 花
剪 纸
舞 龙
Shehuo
Vocabulary&Expressions
社火
The Spring Festival
Gala
春晚
offer sacrifices
to one’s ancestors
祭祖
Family reunion dinner
Vocabulary&Expressions
年夜饭
Special purchases for the Spring Festival
年货
paste Spring Couplets
and Pictures
贴春联
May all your wishes come true.
Sentences
Everything goes well.
Wish you every success.
May a river of gold flow into your pocket.
May you start safe and sound all year round.
Wish our country flourishes and people live in peace.
On the occasion of the New Year, may I extend to you and yours my warmest greetings, wishing you a happy New Year your career greater success and your family happiness.
Sentences
Season’s greetings and sincere wishes for a bright and happy New Year.
Wish you joy at this holy season. Happiness will always be with you.
The Chinese New Year is now_________(wide) known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the beginning of Spring. _______(it) origin is too old to be known. Several explanations are hanging around. But all agree that the word Nian, which______ modern Chinese means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast_______started to eat people the night before the beginning of anew year.
The origin of Chinese New Year
widely
Its
in
that
One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very _____________(frighten). One day, ______old man came to help them, offering to subdue(制伏) Nian. He told people__________(put) up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it came back again, because red was the color the beast feared the most.
frightened
an
to put
Today, the custom of putting up red paper and se