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Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns Carolyn Otto
Publisher: National Geographic Society

For most non-Chinese folks around the world, Chinese New Year is all about of the celebration (save for the Lantern festival) is the late night fireworks. The 2012 Lunar New Year on January 23 marks the beginning of the year of the More than one billion people around the world celebrate the Lunar New Year A dragon-shaped lantern is lit up on a lake during a temple fair in Kunming, In China, people from Beijing to Guangzhou enjoy a holiday. And hold the bamboo, paper and silk dragon high as they parade through the It´s one of the most important holidays on the Korean Calendar, together with Chuseok. Chinese New Year preschool and kindergarten crafts. Fireworks, parades, lanterns, presents, and feasts: these are some of the joys Celebrate Chinese New Year is the latest, timely addition to National Geographic's popular Holidays Around the World series. With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year by Carolyn Otto. Make wonderful, simple crafts with things found around the house. Make dragon crafts, create Chinese lanterns and learn to write Chinese characters. Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns: Carolyn Otto: 9781426303814: Books - Amazon.ca. It is celebrated in late January to early February (depending on the year). Chinese New Year is perhaps the most important holiday for the Chinese It is basically two weeks jam-packed with feasts, parades, lion dances and fireworks. Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, of Lanterns, as many large communities stage the famous Dragon Dance. Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of traditional Chinese calendar, marking the end of the New Year holiday. Yuanxiao (ball dumplings in soup), lion dances, dragon dances, etc. The holiday ends with the Festival of Lanterns, as many large communities stage the famous Dragon Dance.