JAN 19 SAT CNY Culture-Write Couplet, Papercuts & Make Dumplings@MoLA's Garden

Name: JAN 19 SAT CNY Culture-Write Couplet, Papercuts & Make Dumplings@MoLA's Garden
Start: 2019-01-20T00:00:00+08:00
End: 2019-01-20T03:00:00+08:00

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JAN 19 SAT CNY Culture-Write Couplet, Papercuts & Make Dumplings@MoLA's Garden

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Happy Chinese New Year

** Chinese New Year=Lunar New Year=Spring Festival **
Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, and more commonly known as the Spring Festival (Chūnjié) in China, has become one of the world's top five most celebrated festivals.

The CNY is the longest public holiday in China. No matter where people live, Chinese try to return home to be with their families for Chinese New Year.

The Spring Festival is celebrated either in January or February because the Chinese use a lunar calendar, which is based on the movement of the moon. (Much of the Western world uses the Gregorian calendar, which is based on the sun's movements.)

The Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first month in the lunar calendar.For this year, the official holidays will be from FEB 4-11th.

** Traditions **

Before the new year comes, it is customary for people to completely clean their houses to get rid of bad fortune from the old year and decorate their tidy houses, all with an atmosphere of rejoicing and celebration. Homes are often decorated with couplets - vertical banners featuring two lines of poetry — folk painting, paper cuttings that feature intricate designs (similar to cutouts of paper snowflakes), festive scrolls and lanterns. Decorations are usually bright red. Basically, red decorations are to the Chinese New Year festival what Christmas trees are to Christmas. The decorations are typically red because in the Chinese culture, the color can bring happiness, wealth and prosperity by warding off evil spirits and bad luck.

Nowadays, many traditions are gone due to the super convenience and fast speed of the modern life.

At the end of the year, give yourself some time to slow down your life to meet some new friends and enjoy some Chinese New Year Culture Traditions at MoLA's Garden.

** Write Couplet 【We will teach how to write Chinese New Year Couplet; also we will teach some useful Chinese for the upcoming CNY】

** Paper cuts

** Make dumplings

Photos From Previous Event => Please see the photos at the end.

Time : Jan 19 SAT 16:00-21:00

**16:00-18:00 Write couplet & Paper cuts

**18:00-19:00 Learn how to Make Dumplings

**19:00-21:00 Cook dumplings & EAT [We will prepare some other snacks]

**21:00 - late keep drinking & social a bit at MoLA garden, then we will move to dance somewhere!!!!

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