The Chinese New Year Chinese people give a lot of attention to preparations for the New Year. They ____ and ____ their houses, ____ debts, ____ new clothes and ____ their hair cut. In the living room they put out vases of pretty blossoms, platters of oranges and tangerines and a candy tray with eight varieties of dried sweet fruit. They put up “Red Couplets” on doors or walls. “Red Couplets” ____ good luck sentences written on red paper. The “sentence” ____ usually made up of four Chinese characters. On New Year's Eve, families get together for a big dinner with more than ten dishes and ____ alcoholic drinks or sodas. After dinner they ____ and ____ games. At midnight people ____ to the clock strike the New Year, and then they ____ off fireworks. On the first morning of the year, people ____ greetings and ____ money to children in red envelopes called “lai see.”

The Chinese New Year

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