Dear Peter
How's your life in America? Our Chinese New Year is coming and this year is the year of the tiger!
There are many traditional customs during this festival. Let me tell you a few of them. Every Chinese New Year we will greet our relatives and friends and we always say" Congratulations and be prosperous" and " Happy New Year". Children, teenagers and unmarried adults can get red packets from married couples. Red packets which contain lucky money. This is the most exciting thing because we can use lucky money to buy our favourite video games.( Except the red packets that our parents give to us. We usually put them under our pillows and they symbolise that our parents protect us) Also, after receiving red packets, we will have a celebration lunch or dinner together.
The streets will be very crowded because there will be lion dances, dragon dances, firecrackers and other activities. The perfomances are wonderful and they attract people to see them.
We will buy wall posters with Chinese New Year greetings before the New Year. Wall posters can bring you luck and health in the coming year. They are all red and gold in colour because red is a lucky colour. Gold means wealth. We will eat nian gao, a sweet cake which is red in colour. The taste of nian gao is good but parents always advise us not to eat too much because it is not too healthy. We will eat peanuts and candies as well.
We are going to buy new shoes and clothes in red colour because they have two meanings. Firstly, red stands for luck so we will have will be luck in coming year. Secondly, we wear new shoes and new clothes which can wash away the bad luck of the previous year.
This is only some of the information about the Chinese New Year traditional customs. I hope you will know more about that .
It is late and I have to stop writting. Please reply to me and tell me about you life in America! See you soon!
Best wishes
Jerry Lo
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