13 February 2015-
Welcome to the Year of the Lamb….or Goat….or Sheep!!!!!
The girls' school held a Temple Fair on the Friday before the Chinese New Year (CNY) one-week holiday began. It's an entire day filled with lots of Chinese related activities and every year it's fun to attend. Sadly, the secondary kids don't get to participate in the festivities. They're probably "too big" or "too old" or "too mature" …yada yada yada ….to watch and participate in the festivities. 😉
These sheep look an awful like the sheep in "Shaun the Sheep", don't they???? We saw these at a fancy, new mall:
Watching the Lions Dance at the beginning of the day:
It was lots of fun watching this dance: at one point it appeared that the lions were sniffing each other. HUH??? Yeah. That's weird.
Ava's Peking Opera Mask:
Listen to the Guzheng….
Chinese Music at IST from Astrid Breutzman on Vimeo.
I'm not sure who this man is but his English was quite good (he explained a little bit about some of the characters)…whoever he was, he painted beautiful characters (this one is called Fu):
Paper cutting:
Chinese character painting:
It's customary to write signs of good tidings, happiness, good fortune, good luck, etc…and pin them up.
Milla and Ava doing some fan dances:
Ava attempting to play with a traditional Chinese children's toy: