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Chinese New Year Traditions — How Much Do You Know

In my post: How My Family Celebrated Chinese New Year, I talked about how ordinary people like my family celebrated Chinese new year.

In this post, I will talk about what are general Chinese new year traditions. At the same time, as usual, we will learn some Chinese characters related with this topic.

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How My Family Celebrated Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is coming. In this post, I will talk about how my family celebrated Chinese New Year.

If you wish to learn some characters related to the Chinese New Year or sing the song, please read my post: Chinese Children’s Song: Happy New Year.

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Chinese Characters Word List for Christmas

In this post, we will learn some Chinese characters related with Christmas

Note: Characters from the first picture are mostly from the suggestion of a parent. Thank you, Grace.

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Halloween and Chinese Ghost Festival

Halloween (万圣节) (wan4 sheng4 jie2) is here. It is the happiest day for kids, at least for my kids.

When I just came to America, I didn’t understand why people are so happy on this day. It seems American people enjoy playing with anything related with ghost (鬼) (gui3) and death (死亡) (si3 wang2).

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How to Greet People in Mandarin-Chinese (II) ——How to Say Goodbye

If you read my post: How to greet people in Mandarin-Chinese (I) —— How to Say Hello, you might know how to greet Chinese people like a native speaker now.

In this post, I will continue talking about this topic to teach you how to say goodbye.