Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year
Blog Post #2
April 12, 2015
By: Gillian
Fiandaca
The institution of family is the pinnacle of society in the
Chinese culture. They hold family bonds as sacred and honor them accordingly. The Chinese
culture is known for their family
style portions of food. This is so they are able to feed their large families. In
most of the dishes, food is prepared in bite-sized pieces so it is ready for
direct picking and eating. Chinese culture considered using knives and
forks unsuitable at the table because these utensils are regarded as weapons.
Chinese people cook with some exotic ingredients. There are a number of cooking
methods. These include boiling, braising, deep-frying, poaching, shallow
frying, steaming, stir-frying, and many more. The Chinese dishes are prepared
for everyday meals and special occasions, including the Chinese New Year. The
Chinese New Year is the most important traditional festival in
China and is celebrated for sixteen days. There are many New Year preparations,
the first one being cleaning the house. The cleaning is called “sweeping the
dust”, and represents a wish to put away old things, bid farewell to the old
year, and welcome the New Year. The next preparation is New Year shopping where
people buy New Year food, decorations, and clothes before New Year’s Eve. There
are hundred of activities for New Years Eve, including putting up decorations,
putting up new years paintings and paper cutouts, and giving red envelopes with
“lucky money” to children. On New Years Day, there is a big celebration with
fireworks and dragon dances where people wish each other good luck in the New
Year. There are many special food dishes prepared for this occasion like
Chinese dumplings and yu (fish) shown below.
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