愛華網Class 3Yan Ziyi
Dear Andy,
Thanks for your Christmas card. Do you know SpringFestival in China? It’s the most important festival for the Chinese.It happens every year, but not at the same day. It usually comes inFebruary, but sometimes it comes in January.
A few days before Spring Festival, we all go backhome and get ready for it. We clean our house and sweep away allthe bad luck. We always go shoppingand buy lots of food. On the evening before Spring Festival, wehave a big family dinner. Everyone eats jiaoji — a kind of dumpling. It’s quite delicious.After the dinner, we watch a special programme on TV, and set offfireworks together. We dress up, and visit our friends andrelatives on Spring Festival. Children say “Happy New Year” toparents, and they can get a hongbao. It means “l(fā)uckymoney”.
This is Spring Festival. Would you like to comehere?
I am looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 3Ma Ying
Dear Andy,
Thanks for your Christmas card.Do youknow Spring Festival in China? The festival is coming. Let me tellyou about the festival.
Spring Festival in the most importantin my country. The festival is special. It happens on the differentdays every year. It usually comes in February, but sometimes itcomes in January. A few days before Spring Festival, we clean ourhouse and sweep away all the bad luck.These days, each one isgetting for Spring Festival. We buy many things. Most of them arered because red is lucky colour in my country. And we get foodready. On the evening before Spring Festival, people all go backhome. They eat a traditional dinner with their family. Everyone ishappy. We eat jiaozi, a kind of dumpling. Because the dumplinglooks like yuanbao. If you eat it, you will get a lot of many nextyear. After the dinner, we watch a special programme on televisionand set off fireworks. On Spring Festival, we dress up and visitrelatives and friends. Everyone is happy andsays“Happy New Year”to each other. Children usually get a hongbao from theirgrandparents. It means lucky money.
How about coming China and joining usfor Spring Festival?
I am looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6 JiangXinyi
Dear Andy
Thanks for your Christmas card. Do you know SpringFestival in China? It’s an important festival for theChinese. Like Christmas, we celebrate Spring Festival every year,but not on the same day. It usually comes in February, butsometimes it comes in January. Spring Festival finishes untilLantern Festival. Let me tell more about it.
Before Spring Festival, we always clean our houses to sweepaway all the bad luck. We also buy many things to celebrate it anda lot of food to get ready for the festival. On the evening beforeSpring Festival, we usually get together. The whole family has abig dinner. Everyone eats jiaozi—a kind of dumpling. After thedinner, we usually watch a special programme on television and whenthe clock knocks at the midnight, every family set off fireworks.On the Spring Festival, we all dress up and visit friends andrelatives. As usual, children can get presents or hongbao fromtheir parents or grandparents. It means lucky money. And people say“Happy New Year” to each other.
Spring Festival is very interesting and you can come here andcelebrate the festival with us next year.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6Liang Hua
Dear Andy,
Thanks for your Christmas card. Doyou know Spring festival in China?
Like Christmas, Spring Festival isthe most important festival for the Chinese. It happens every year,but not on the same day. It usually comes in February, butsometimes it comes in January. A few days before Spring Festival,we clean our house and sweep away all the bad luck. We always get alot of food ready before the festival. Sometimes, children makelanterns and learn a dragon dance. On the evening before SpringFestival, people all go back to their home and get together. Thewhole family have a big dinner. We eat lots of traditional food,such as jiaozi—a kind of dumpling. After the dinner, we usuallywatch a special programme on television. It’s interesting. And people set offfireworks to celebrate the new year. On Spring Festival peopledress up and visit the friends and relatives. Children can getpresents. They are very happy. And they usually get hongbao. Itmeans lucky money.
I hope I can celebrate SpringFestival with you. Happy New Year!
I’m looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6 DaiTongwei
Dear Andy,
Thanks for your Christmas card. Do you know SpringFestival? Spring Festival is the most important festival inChina. Like Christmas, it happens every year, but not on the sameday. It usually comes in February, but sometimes it comes inJanuary.
A few days before Spring Festival, we clean ourhouse and sweep away all the bad luck. We also buy lots of thingsbefore the festival and we buy a lot of food. On the evening BeforeSpring Festival, the family members all go back home. We have a bigfamily dinner. We eat jiaozi ----- a kind of dumpling. Afterdinner, we usually watch a special programme on TV and go out toset off fireworks. On the Spring Festival, we dress up, wear newclothes and visit our friends and relatives. Children can get ahongbao from their parents, grandparents and relatives.Hongbao means lucky money.
We all like Spring Festival. I hope you can cometo China and celebrate Spring Festival with me. We can get lots offun together.
I am looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6Liu Chunxu
Dear Andy,
Thanks for your Christmas card. Do you know SpringFestival in China? Like Christmas, it is very important for Chinese.It happens in every year but not on the same day. It usually comesin February, but sometimes it also comes in January. Let me tellyou some traditional customs in Spring Festival inChina.
A few days before Spring Festival, we clean ourhouses and sweep away all the bad luck to bring the good luck to usin the coming year. We always buy a lot of things, such as newclothes, presents and foods. On the evening before Spring Festivalwe have a big family dinner. Everyone eats the traditional food —Jiaozi. After thedinner, people usually watch a special programme on TV or gooutside to set off the fireworks. On the Spring Festival, we allwear new clothes to visit the relatives. Children can get hongbao from the elderrelatives.
Do you want to celebrate Spring Festival with us?Come on, I can tell you how to make a lantern.
I am looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6Liang Shixuan
Dear Andy
Thanks for your Christmas card. Doyou know Spring Festival in China? Like Christmas, it happens everyyear, but not on the same day. It usually comes in February, butsometimes it comes in January. Let me tell you something aboutSpring Festival.
A few days before Spring Festival weget ready for it. We clean our house and sweep away all bad luck.We go shopping for a lot of food, and we usually make big redlanterns. We celebrate Spring Festival with a traditional familydinner on the evening before Spring Festival. There is so muchdelicious food. Everyone eats jiaozi——a kind of dumpling. After the dinner, we alwayswatch a special programme on television. People usually talk witheach other. Parents always talk about their children. We also setoff and enjoy fireworks. They are my favourite. Most people alwaysdress up, wear their new clothes and visit their friends andrelatives on Spring Festival. Children always get presents orhongbao from old people. We usually say, “Happy New Year.” to eachother.
In a word, Spring Festival is animportant festival for us. Do you want to come to China and joinus?
I am looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6Shen Xiaoxiao
Dear Andy,
Thanks for your Christmas card. Do you know SpringFestival in China? Like Christmas, Spring Festival is very importantin my country, too. It happens every year, but not on the same day.It usually comes in February, but sometimes it comes in January. Afew days before Spring Festival, we clean our house and sweep awayall the bad luck. Then we must go shopping and get a lot of foodready.
On the evening before Spring Festival, we have abig family dinner. Everyone must eat Jiaozi-a kind of dumping.After the dinner, we always watch a special programme on TV and goout to set off fireworks. On the Spring Festival we dress up andvisit our friends and relatives. Children can get hongbao formtheir parents, grandparents and some relatives.It means luckymoney.
I hope you can celebrate Spring Festival with menext year!
I am looking forward to hearing formyou!
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 6Tan Shuyao
Dear Andy:
Thanks for your Christmas card. Do you know SpringFestival in China? Let me tell you something about it. SpringFestival is very important for Chinese. When the festival iscoming, Chine se are all excited. It happens every year, but not onthe same day. It usually comes in February, but sometimes it comesin January. Spring Festival in China is the same asChristmas.
A few days before Spring Festival, every family isvery busy with cleaning their house and sweeping away all the badluck .We always buy a lot of things and so much delicious food. Onthe evening of the Spring Festival, we have a big family dinner.The food is traditional and delicious. We eat meat, fish,vegetables as well as jianzi----a kind of dumping. Jianzi isdelicious. Most of Chinese like them. After dinner we stay up lateand watch a special TV programme. About 12:00 am, we always set offfireworks. They are quite beautiful. And there’re many kinds offireworks. On that day, all the people dress up and visit theirfriends and relatives. They say ‘Happy New Year’ to each other.Children usually can get hongbao, it means luckymoney.
It’s the Spring Festival in China.
I’m looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian.
Class 3 LiXueying
Dear Andy:
Thanks foryou Christmas card .Do you knowSpring Festivalin China ? Ttis the mostimportant festivalfor the Chinese. People alllike it verymuch , especially the children.Because itmeans “everythingwill be new. Ithappens every year,but not onthe same days.It usuallycomes in February, Butsometimes itcomes in January.
Before the festival,we clean ourhouse andsweep awayall the badluck. We are busy these days . We buy lots of thingsfor the festival, too, such asred lanterns, red papers andred clothes. Most of the things are red , becausered is the“l(fā)ucky color” in China.And we buya lot offood, candies, fish, chicken andmany kinds ofdelicious food. On the eveningbefore Spring Festival,we celebrate thefestival witha traditionalfamily dinner. There is lots of delicious food.Everyone eats jiaozi, because jiaozi looks like “yuanbao”.If you eatthem, you willget lots ofmoney next year.And my motheroften put acoin inoneof jiaozi .When you eat jiaozi with thecoin in it, you will be the lucky one this newyear. After the dinner,we alwayswatch a specialprogramme onTV and setoff fireworksDuringthe Spring Festival,people all dress up and visit their friends andrelatives. And children can get presents. Hongbaois an important present. It means “l(fā)uckymoney”.
Now, please tell me, Andy , doyou likeSpring Festival ? Welcome toChina during your winter holiday, I will celebrate Spring Festivalwith you together !
I’m looking forward to hearing fromyou.
Love,
Xu Qian
Class 3 YangZhenghai
Dear Andy,
Thanks for yours Christmas card.Do you know SpringFestival in China? It’s an important festival in China,but not on the same day. It’s the difference from other festivals.It usually comes in February, but sometimes comes in January. Thisyear it comes in February. we all expect it.
In my family, before Spring Festival we clean the house andsweep away all the bad luck. We also go shopping for a lot ofthings, including food and clothes. We prepare a lot of food beforeSpring Festival.
On the evening before Spring Festival my family get together.We celebrate Spring Festival with a traditional dinner. Everyoneeats jiaozi—a kind of dumpling. After dinner we watch a specialprogramme on TV. And then we set off fireworks. On Spring Festival,we all dress up and visit relations and friends. Children can get afrom their relations. It means lucky money.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours,
Xu Qian
