Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Alice K. Flanagan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events that take place during the Chinese New Year and explains how it is celebrated.
Download or read book Festivals Around the World written by Grace Jones and published by Discover and Learn. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and Learn is a visually stimulating series that explores core areas of learning. This series uses eye-catching imagery, informative diagrams and fascinating facts to bring key subject areas to life.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Grace Jones and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese New Year is a spring festival that happens in January or February. Chinese people come together with their families and friends to celebrate the start of the new year. Learn more about the history and traditions of this fascinating celebration in the Festivals around the World series.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Terri Sievert and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a description of what Chinese New Year is, how it started, and ways people celebrate this cultural holiday.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Nancy Dickmann and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about what Chinese New Year is and how people celebrate it.
Download or read book My Chinese New Year written by Monica Hughes and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what religious festivals a young reader may take part in, they're sure to love reading about all of the festivals in this series. Each title celebrates diversity by detailing the preparations that go into each festival, what people wear, where it takes place, the food that is eaten, when it happens, who celebrates it, and why it's celebrated.
Download or read book Making an American Festival written by Chiou-ling Yeh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
Download or read book Celebrate Chinese New Year written by Carolyn Otto and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and color images present various aspects of the Chinese New Year celebration, including red decorations, the exchange of poems, Festival of Lanterns, Dragon Dance, fireworks, parades, feasts, and the remembrance of ancestors.
Download or read book Chinese Feasts Festivals written by S. C. Moey and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated Chinese cookbook features all the most popular feast and festival food along with a wealth information. It is often said that the Chinese live to eat. Happily for them, the rich culinary tradition of China is largely inspired by a calendar year filled with a generous round of joyous occasions--festivals, reunions, weddings and anniversaries--for eating, drinking and making merry. And, of course, for paying homage to the gods and ancestors. Food, fittingly, is a combination of flavors and symbols (wealth, happiness, luck, prosperity), a spiritual celebration and an earthly pleasure. Chinese Feasts & Festivals, S.C. Moey has assembled a number of facts and fancies as well as a collection of festival specialties for the Chinese food lover to read and enjoy or, if the spirit takes flight, cook up a feast that will impress both mortals and ancestors and win the approval of the gods. Authentic Chinese recipes include: Drunken Chicken Steamed Duck with Bamboo Shoots Five Spice Rolls Spicy Sichuanese Lamb Sweet and Sour Fish Chinese Lettuce Leaf Cups Yangzhou Fried Rice Sweet Red Bean Pancakes Steamed Rice Flour Cupcakes New Years Cakes
Download or read book Chinese New Year Festivals written by Juliet Bredon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Chinese, in China and in communities around the world, the lunar new year is the most important and most festive holiday of the year. Following centuries of tradition, family members from near and far still travel to be with loved ones in time to usher out the old year and welcome in the new. Today, all over China, during what is now commonly referred to as the Spring Festival, passenger trains, buses, and river boats are packed with holiday travelers; shops do a flurry of business selling gifts, new clothes, and festive foods; kitchens are bustling with preparations for elaborate feasts; and streets are filled with the sounds of firecrackers and seasonal greetings. Learn about the history and stories behind the various traditions still celebrated during the Chinese New Year Festival. Written by an expert on Chinese culture, this introduction to the culture and traditions of the Chinese New Year. With its beginnings in the Chinese agricultural Calendar, Chinese New Year Festivals will help both Chinese and non-Chinese understand the traditions celebrated for hundreds of years.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Fay Robinson and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese New Year has been celebrated for thousands of years in China. Now it is celebrated all around the world. It does not always come on the same date each year, but it is always in January or February. Readers of this volume will learn the meaning behind the holiday as well as the costumes, decorations, food, and other customs, such as the dragon parade, associated with it. This simple yet engaging book also provides instructions on how to make ya sui qian, or the red envelopes the Chinese use for gifts of money, as well as a recipe for fried rice.
Download or read book Making an American Festival written by Chiou-ling Yeh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Grace Jones and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese New Year is a spring festival that happens in January or February. Chinese people come together with their families and friends to celebrate the start of the new year. Learn more about the history and traditions of this fascinating celebration in the Festivals around the World series.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Benrei Huang and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Carrie Gleason and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the various traditions associated with Chinese New Year celebrations, describing the food, customs, decorations, and dances Chinese people use to welcome in the new year.
Download or read book Chinese New Year written by Patricia Bjaaland Welch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange trees and plum blossoms. Strings of firecrackers and clusters of gold coins. Dinners with family and offerings to ancestors. No event in the Chinese calender holds a greater importance, or is as richly celebrated, as the Lunar New Year. This complete introduction to the holiday explores its many symbols and rituals, tracing their history and meanings, and describing the differences in its celebration from Hong Kong to Taiwan, Singapore to mainland China. Beginning with notable days in the month preceding the holiday and extendingto the Lantern Festival fifteen days into the New Year, the author guides the reader through the etiquette of gift-giving and the selection of special foods, holiday greetings, and popular decorations. Many Chinese traditions have been lost forever, but in communities throughout the world the anticipation, preparation, and celebration of the Lunar New Year endures.
Download or read book Traditional Festivals 2 volumes written by Christian Roy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures. From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension.
