Learning Chinese (LOTE)

虎(hǔ)年(nián)大(dà)吉(jí)

Good luck in the Year of the Tiger

Monday February 1st was Chinese New Year. 

This year it is the Year of the Tiger. If you were born in 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 or 2022, then you were born in the year of the Tiger and it is a special year for you! 

To celebrate Chinese New Year (also known as the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival), several Bimbadeen students in Year 6 took our Chinese Dragon puppet for a walk around the school at play time on Tuesday in the first week of school. This was very exciting for all of the students out in the yard. 

In their Chinese lessons, students in Years 3-6 have been learning about some traditional Chinese New Year decorations, such as why the poster for “good fortune” is hung upside down (“good fortune upside down” sounds the same as “good fortune has arrived” in Chinese). 

If you would like to do something to celebrate Chinese New Year at home, you might like to have dumplings for dinner one night. Dumplings are shaped like a kind of ancient Chinese coin, so eating them symbolises wealth and prosperity for the new year. 

恭(gōng)喜(xǐ)发(fā)财(cái)， 新(xīn)年(nián)快(kuài)乐(lè)！

Happy Chinese New Year!

Sarah Cherry

Chinese Teacher