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The Adventures of Chinese Foods and Celebrations

• By Ines Daguillard Madison Murphy

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Introduction

• Are you ready to read about festivals and foods?
  Chinese foods and festivals all are very
  important, all have a reason to be celebrated,
  and special foods honor ancestors. Chinese New
  Year is the most important festival in China. Sit
  back and please enjoy this power point with all
  very interesting information. ?

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Chinese New Year

• Chinese New Year is the most important festival
  in China. It is the most exciting and most
  colorful time of the year. Inside of a house on
  Chinese New Year you will see apples and oranges
  for good luck, blossoming and

• blooming flowers for beauty. They give out
  envelopes with coins in them, to make the bad
  spirits be afraid of them. People clean their
  houses also to remove the evil spirits in their
  house.

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Special Food for Chinese New Year

• Displaying and eating oranges and apples is said
  to bring wealth and luck. According to the
  Chinese culture and traditions, the word orange
  and gold sound alike in Chinese language, but do
  NOT put them in groups of 4. If you put them in
  groups of 4, you are associated with death!!!!

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Special Foods for Chinese New Year continued

• Long noodles stand for a long life. Jiaoz is
  similar to sticky rice. They also eat dumplings
  and rice. Last but not least, SWEETS! Serving
  deserts bring a very sweet life in the Chinese
  New Year. Gong (a famous writer) writes that that
  his childhood favorite was flaky cookie pocket.
  The cookies are filled with peanuts coconuts and
  sesame seeds.

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Dragon Boat Festival

• The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated in
  southern China. They held the Dragon boat
  festival to remember Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan threw
  himself into a 98 ft deep river. The people threw
  rice cakes into the river so the fish wont eat
  Qu Yuans body.

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Dragon Boat Festival continued

• For the Dragon Boat Race, in the finish line they
  have someone pretending to be Qu Yuan. He is
  pretending to be drowning there, and the first
  boat who passes the fish line gets to save Qu
  Yuans life.

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Special Food In China

• People that are poor eat grains, beans, and other
  vegetables. Rich people eat meat, deer, pork,
  duck, snake but that is not all! They also eat
  dog and bear paws. Dumpling, shrimp, and sushi
  are the most popular.

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Special Foods In China continued

• Lots of people put flavor in there foods such as,
  honey, cinnamon, peanuts, ginger and salt added
  too. Each culture has its own favorite food and
  own preparation of dishes. Thousand year eggs or
  century eggs are popular foods.

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Special Foods In China 3

• One of the ingredients in thousand year old eggs
  is clay (yucky) Sounds yummy right? These are
  especially popular foods in China.

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