Kung Hai Fat Choy

Come celebrate a Chinese New Year with us and enter a contest at Jimmie's Collage!



It's the year of the tiger according to the Chinese Zodiac, and Anna Rose used her drawing talents to depict the tiger in this colorful crayon illustration.

We started off with a delicious stir-fried dish composed of chicken marinated in garlic, ginger, and soy sauce, red peppers, zucchini, carrots, celery, water chestnuts, and baby corn accompanied by brown rice. Probably not exactly authentic Chinese cooking but we loved it!

Anna Rose fashioned a paper lantern. The symbol on it means "tiger" in Chinese.

Here she is painting the symbol for "happiness" on a banner which we will hang at the sides of the door.

Here is the finished product. The symbols mean "happiness" and "riches."

Anna Rose enjoyed reading several Chinese folk tales that we checked out of the library.

Her favorite was The Voice of the Great Bell by Lafcadio Hearn, retold by Margaret Hodges. "There was a little girl whose father along, with other workers, would be killed if the king's bell was not finished by the next morning. The girl wanted to save her father from death so she went to a magician and asked him what to do to save her father. The magician said that she would have to jump inside the melted gold, brass, silver, and metal. Then they would blend together and make a bell. If you want to find out what happens, you can find this book at the library." - review by Anna Rose


Here is a piece of music that Anna Rose recently learned called "Chinese Song."
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Thank you for stopping by to share in our celebration.

May your happiness be as wide as the East Sea!