Chinese New Year:
I would like to start out today by wishing everyone a
wonderful new year. Today is the Chinese New Year, and what better way to celebrate
then exploring Chinese culture. Unfortunately, I will not have time to write a
long post, but do not worry, I will do more on China later. I plan on
celibrating by watching Disney’s “Mulan”, and by reading the book, Lon Po Po,
a children’s book which is basically the Chinese version of “Little Red
Riding Hood”, except having three little girls instead of just one.
I will be travelling, so I plan on eating at whatever
Chinese restaurant I come across in the Detroit airport.
The Chinese new year is based on the lunar calendar, so it
is often called the lunar New Year. The festival itself is actually 15 days
long, and is accompanied by a flower festival. The day is steeped in tradition,
that includes fireworks and gift exchange.
Book:
As a child, China was a place that fascinated me. As lame as
it may seem, I often noticed the Chinese Tourists that frequented the amusement
parks in my hometown of San Antonio. Imaged what China must have been like,
though I had very little to go on when I was young. One of my first encounters
with anything real from the China was the book. Illustrated in beautiful pastel,
“Lon Po Po”. Like “Little Red Riding Hood’ there is a big bad wolf. The girls
find themselves up a ginkgo tree, and have to trick the wolf in order to get
down.
Experience:
After reading this book as a child, I wondered, what is Gingko?
It is actually a fruit. I bugged my mom so much with questions about the fruit
that my mom finally went out and bought me canned gingko. It was sweet, tasty
and soft, but with very little meet surrounding the hard pit at its center.
Work Cited:
Bancroft, Tony. Cook, Barry. “Mulan”. Disney. Copyright:
1998.
“Chinese New Year”. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year#Greetings.
Retrieved: January 31, 2014.
Young, Ed. “Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China”. Published:
1989
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