Bây giờ hoặc không bao giờ. Đừng do dự nữa nếu bạn muốn nói tiếng Anh tự nhiên như hơi thở - PART 2

6 pm mà tập trung thì đánh đố nhau 6h mình mới đi làm từ Hải Dương về tới HN

[blue]@ Monkey: That''s my job!
@all: CN này là buổi cuối cùng chúng ta off trong năm nay, vì vậy topic cho CN là Tết holiday!
Các activity cụ thể sẽ được post trong thời gian ngắn nhất( sorry I''m pretty busy now) ... ai có đề xuất thêm ý tưởng j thì welcome hén.

Long có thể join part 2 cũng được muh (nếu có lòng) ^^

Được cheetah_on_chase sửa chữa / chuyển vào 21:55 ngày 09/02/2007

Cn này nhóm mình off xong ăn uống + karaokê nhé

Em dong gop 1 bai ve lunar New Year ne!
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival is the most important of the tra***ional Chinese holidays. It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year?Ts Day, celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar. This is the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year. In such a case, the New Year falls on the day of the third new moon after the solstice. (The next time this occurs is in 2033.) The Chinese New Year period ends with the Lantern Festival, on the fifteenth day of the festival.
PUBLIC HOLIDAY.
Chinese New Year is observed as a public holiday in a number of countries and territories where a sizeable Chinese population resides. Since Chinese New Year falls on different dates on the Gregorian calendar every year on different days of the week, some of these governments opt to shift working days in order to accommodate a longer public holiday. Also like many other countries in the world, a statutory holiday is added on the following work day when the New Year falls on the weekend.
OTHER COUNTRIES.
The Korean and Vietnamese also celebrate their respective New Years (Seollal - Korea, Tết - Vietnam) on the same day as they follow the Chinese Calendar, and the day is usually a public holiday in those countries. In Vietnam, the first 3 days are public holidays. However, because of the time difference between Vietnam and Beijing (China), Tết may differ from the Chinese calendar by a day every 22nd or 23rd year. The Japanese celebrate their New Year (shogatsu) following a similar tra***ion but on 1 January with the first three days being holidays.
DAYS BEFORE THE NEW YEAR.
On the days before the New Year celebration, Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning. It is believed the cleaning sweeps away bad luck and makes their homes ready for good luck to arrive. All brooms and dust pans are put away on New Year?Ts Eve so that good luck cannot be swept away. Some people give their homes, doors and windowpanes a new coat of red paint. Homes are decorated with paper cutouts of Chinese auspicious phrases and couplets (short phrases) that speak of "happiness," "wealth," "longevity."
REUNION DINNER.
A reunion dinner is held on New Year?Ts Eve where members of the family, near and far, get together for celebration. The New Year?Ts Eve dinner is very large and tra***ionally includes chicken.
FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR.
The first day is for the welcoming of the gods of the heavens and earth. Many people abstain from meat consumption on the first day because it is believed that this will ensure long and happy lives for them.
New Year?Ts day is also celebrated within the family. Usually family members gather on the morning of New Year?Ts Day. It is at this gathering that red envelopes are given by senior members of the family, usually married, to unmarried junior members of the family.
Red packets tra***ionally consisted of amounts which were considered multiples. Amounts like $2 or $20 were acceptable. Similarly "multiples of 2" such as $1.10 and $2.20 were also acceptable. However, this is not strictly adhered to. The gift was originally a token amount but these days it is not uncommon to receive large sums in affluent families. In some families this tra***ion has evolved into the practice *****bstituting money-like instruments (stocks, bonds, unit trust) in place of large sums of cash.
Red packets are also given to unmarried visitors but the sums are often smaller than the envelope given to family members or close friends. Employers may also give red envelopes to their employees on the first working day after the festival.
Most importantly, the first day of Chinese New Year is a time where family members, in order of their seniority, will pay a visit to their oldest and most senior member of their family, usually their parents or grandparents, or even great grandparents. The venue of the aforementioned Reunion Dinner is usually, if not always, at the eldest and most respected family member?Ts residence. This has been in practice for many centuries.
Some families will invite a Lion dance troupe to their home as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to force-evict bad spirits out of the premises. Chinese red firecrackers will also be on display where the deafening explosions of each firecracker is believed to scare evil spirits away.
SECOND DAY OF THE NEW YEAR.
[purple]It is the second day of Chinese New Year for sons-in-laws to visit their parents-in-law. Giving away red packets will still be ongoing from the first day and would gradually quiet down by the fifth day, depending on the size of the family as each juniors will only receive one packet from each senior member of the family.
It is always a tra***ion to wish guests and be wished by guests "Gong xi fa cai!" (Mandarin) or "Gong hei fatt choy" (Cantonese). Depending on the family?Ts background, guests may be invited to join a ceremony of tea with the host.
THIRD DAY AND FOURTH OF THE NEW YEAR.
The third day of Chinese New Year is not appropriate to visit any relative because it is known as "chec hao" (??), meaning easy to get into argument. Theory suggests that the cause could be the fried food and visiting during the first two days of the New Year celebration.Chinese New Year.
Được eden-garden sửa chữa / chuyển vào 14:20 ngày 09/02/2007

Happy new year ca nha
Được eden-garden sửa chữa / chuyển vào 12:02 ngày 09/02/2007

hihih......bé eden_ gaden nhiệt tình nhỉ......CN này cả nhà off đông đủ cho vui....

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