Kung Hey Fat Choi!!

 

  

 

Chinese New Year Poems

 
The Emporor of Ch'in
Shih Huang-ti
Built a wall
From the hills to the sea.
He built it wide,
He built it stout,
To keep his subjects in
And the Tartars out.
The Emperor of Ch'in.

Meng Chiang-Nu, one sad day
From her own dear home
A thousand leagues away
To the wall did come.
Weary and worn
She wept and she cried:
"Where is my dear love
Buried inside?"
She wept and she cried
And her tears did fall,
Till down, down tumbled
That great big wall.

 

 

Chinese Nursery Rhyme

This little frog has two eyes,
Four legs,
One mouth, no tail,
Says croak, croak and
Plops into the water.

These little frogs have four eyes,
Eight legs,
Two mouths, no tails,
Say croak, croak and
Plop into the water.

Little Cow

This little cow eats grass,
This little cow eats hay.
This little cow drinks water,
This little cow runs away,
This little cow does nothing,
But just lies down all day,
We'll whip her, let's whip her, let's whip her.

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Songs

 
Lion Dance Song 

(Tune:"Mary Had a Little Lamb")

See the lion dance and prance,
Dance and prance, dance and prance.
See the lion dance and prance
On Chinese New Year's Day.

Hear the firecrackers pop,
Pop,pop,pop; pop,pop,pop
Hear the firecrackers pop
On Chinese New Year's Day.

 

Chinese Hello Song

(Tune:"The Farmer in the Dell")

Let's wave and say "Ni hao (nee how),"
Let's wave and say "Ni hao."
Let's say "hello" to all our friends,
Let's wave and say "ni hao."

 

Chinese Dragon
(Tune: "Frere Jacques")

Chinese dragon, Chinese dragon,
Breathing fire, breathing fire,
Happy, happy new year,
Happy, happy new year,
Gung hay fat choy,
Gung hay fat choy.

 

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Vocabulary

 
Dragon China Great Wall
Chopsticks Kite Abacus
Tangrams Lucky Origami

 

Chinese New Year Writing Activity

 
The Great Wall of China is...

In China...

Eating with Chopsticks is...

If I were Chinese...

I like Chinese food because...

My favorite Chinese restaurant is...

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Art & Crafts
Chinese Activities    
Parade Dragon Puppet

Zodiac Word Search

 

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Inventions

Abacus

Wheelbarrow

  

Compass

 Kite

 

Gun Powder

Umbrella

 

 

Chinese Name

 

Chinese Horoscope
 

Animated Horoscope   

 

 

Chinese New Year Recipes
 

Traditional Chinese New Year Foods

Chinese Recipes
 

 

 

Chinese Tradition

 
The 15-Day Celebration of Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year Decoration

Taboos and Superstitions of Chinese New Year

 

 

 China

 
All About China

All About the Great Wall of China

 

 

Chinese New Year Greeting Cards

 

Chinese New Year Origami
Rabbit Puppy Fish
Frog Dolphin Turtle
Butterfly Mouse Cat

 

Chinese Interactive Map

 

 

 

Chinese Dictionary Online

 

 

Chinese Zodiac  

 

 

Chinese New Year Literature

 
A Family from China, by Julia Waterlow

Lon Po Po : A Red-Riding Hood Story from China -- Ed Young
Big Bird in China -- Jan Stone

A Book About Pandas -- R.B. Gross
The Boy Who Swallowed Snakes -- Laurence Yep

Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac -- Ed Young

China Eyes -- Marjorie Ann Waybill

The Five Chinese Brothers -- Claire Bishop

Children Just Like Me -- Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley

Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes -- Robert Wyndam and Ed Young

A Chinese Zoo: Fables and Proverbs -- Demi

Dragon Kites and Dragonflies: A Collection of Chinese Nursery Rhymes -- Demi

Dragon Parade-A Chinese New Year Story -- Steck Vaughn, 1993

El Chino -- Allen Say

A Grain of Rice -- Helena Clare Pittman

Lion Dancer -- Waters and Slovenz-Low

  Lion Dancer-Ernie Wang's Chinese New Year -- Reading Rainbow Scholastic Books, 1990

The Tangram Magician -- Ernest and Ernst

 

 

 

 

Chinese New Year Links

 
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