Jane's Pocket Change: Quick Wit, Curiosity, Innovation & Mischief?
Might these well be CSW’s new values and descriptors of our remarkable students and equally dynamic faculty and staff? For sure. In actual fact these words sum up the qualities of the monkey, the Chinese Zodiac animal celebrated this Chinese New Year: the Year of the Monkey, the ninth animal in the cycle.
Might these well be CSW’s new values and descriptors of our remarkable students and equally dynamic faculty and staff? For sure. In actual fact these words sum up the qualities of the monkey, the Chinese Zodiac animal celebrated this Chinese New Year: the Year of the Monkey, the ninth animal in the cycle.
Monday, February 8 marks this happy and widely celebrated event. The New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is marked by the lunisolar Chinese calendar so the date changes from year to year. The festivities usually start the day before the New Year and continue until the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the New Year. I wish all CSW students, faculty, staff and their families who observe Lunar New Year a very happy new year, full of promise and great fortune.
A fifth of the world’s population celebrates Chinese New Year and winter vacation week in China (just like between Christmas and New Year's Day in some other countries). Students in China get about a month off, with university and college students getting even more. China, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and several other Asian countries have public holidays ranging from one to four days.
Billions of red envelopes are exchanged during the New Year’s holidays. These red envelopes containing cash are given out from older to younger and from bosses to employees. 200 million people in Mainland China travel long distances for these holidays, and it is estimated that there are 3.5 billion journeys in China. (For comparison, less than 100 million people travel more than 50 miles during the Christmas holidays in the U.S. according to the American Automobile Association). Tens of millions of people travel in other countries, too. In Korea, 30 million people visited their hometowns in 2013.
The Chinese New Year brings the world's biggest annual fireworks usage. No single hour in any other country sees as many tons of lighted fireworks as in China beginning at midnight of Lunar New Year. China produces about 90% of the world's fireworks! Traditionally, each of the 16 days from New Year's Eve until the Lantern Festival has a special celebration activity. On the 15th day of the first lunar month under the night of a full moon, families gather for dinner and go out to see fireworks and lanterns. Lanterns are put up for decoration, let loose to fly and floated in rivers.
"Xinnian Kuaile" means "Happy New Year." So here’s wishing you Xīnnián Kuàilè! (新年快乐). That's pronounced "sshin-nyen kwhy-luh," by the way.
{Most of these facts are taken from this site}
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Pocket Change is a web diary written by Jane Moulding, head of school.
Monday, February 8 marks this happy and widely celebrated event. The New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is marked by the lunisolar Chinese calendar so the date changes from year to year. The festivities usually start the day before the New Year and continue until the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the New Year. I wish all CSW students, faculty, staff and their families who observe Lunar New Year a very happy new year, full of promise and great fortune.
A fifth of the world’s population celebrates Chinese New Year and winter vacation week in China (just like between Christmas and New Year's Day in some other countries). Students in China get about a month off, with university and college students getting even more. China, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and several other Asian countries have public holidays ranging from one to four days.
Billions of red envelopes are exchanged during the New Year’s holidays. These red envelopes containing cash are given out from older to younger and from bosses to employees. 200 million people in Mainland China travel long distances for these holidays, and it is estimated that there are 3.5 billion journeys in China. (For comparison, less than 100 million people travel more than 50 miles during the Christmas holidays in the U.S. according to the American Automobile Association). Tens of millions of people travel in other countries, too. In Korea, 30 million people visited their hometowns in 2013.
The Chinese New Year brings the world's biggest annual fireworks usage. No single hour in any other country sees as many tons of lighted fireworks as in China beginning at midnight of Lunar New Year. China produces about 90% of the world's fireworks! Traditionally, each of the 16 days from New Year's Eve until the Lantern Festival has a special celebration activity. On the 15th day of the first lunar month under the night of a full moon, families gather for dinner and go out to see fireworks and lanterns. Lanterns are put up for decoration, let loose to fly and floated in rivers.
"Xinnian Kuaile" means "Happy New Year." So here’s wishing you Xīnnián Kuàilè! (新年快乐). That's pronounced "sshin-nyen kwhy-luh," by the way.
{Most of these facts are taken from this site}
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Pocket Change is a web diary written by Jane Moulding, head of school.
The Cambridge School of Weston is a progressive high school for day and boarding students in grades 9–12 and PG. CSW's mission is to provide a progressive education that emphasizes deep learning, meaningful relationships, and a dynamic program that inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to their school, their community and the world.