Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns

Name: Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns
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ISBN: 9781426303814

ISBN-10: 1426303815

ISBN-13: 9781426303814

Edition: 2008

Authors: Carolyn Otto, National Geographic Kids

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Children have never had so many reasons to learn how Chinese people everywhere ring in the new and ring out the old. As China takes its new place on the global stage, understanding Chinese culture and values becomes ever more essential to our next generation. For two joyous weeks red is all around. The color represents luck and happiness. Children receive money wrapped in red paper, and friends and loved ones exchange poems written on red paper. The Chinese New Year is also an opportunity to remember ancestors, and to wish peace and happiness to friends and family. The holiday ends with the Festival of Lanterns, as many large communities stage the famous Dragon Dance. Fireworks, parades,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide
Publication date: 1/13/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Size: 8.81" wide x 10.31" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English