1. Differences between Korean New Year & Chinese New Year’s Chinese New Year part by Kaohsiung Municipal Fu Dong Elementary School Team

2. Hang up spring festival couplets written in Chinese. Clean up all the rooms. Family members get together for reunion dinners. Children have Red envelopes with money! Chinese New Year’s Eve

3. The First Day of Chinese New Year You can not wash your hair after 11 pm. Married women could not go back to their mom’s home on that day. You have to say good things to everyone. You should not take extra medicine. You should not break any china, plate or bowls.

4. The Second day of Chinese New Year Married daughters should return to their mother’s home.

5. The Third day of Chinese New Year I will get married soon! Chinese Fairy Tale: The mice are holding marriage party on that day.

6. The Fourth Day of Chinese New Year 1.Welcome gods. 2.Prepare Fruits and Flowers to worship ancestors. 3.Prepare Paper money to burn as offerings.

7. The Fifth Day of Chinese New Year Wealth God’s Birthday Businessmen prepare to work – most markets open on that day

8. Lantern Festival Also named Shang Yuan ( 上元 ) Festival It’s the last day of Chinese new year festival People prepare lanterns Eat Yuan Shiao ( 元宵： Dumplings)

9. Difference & Parallel Differences Sameness 1.Date & Time Taiwan: Celebrate new year in lunar calendar. Korea: Celebrate new year in the first day of year. Celebrate New Year in lunar calendar. (Some Koreans do) 2.Foods Taiwan: Eat fishes, vegetable, Chinese dumplings…… Korea: Eat traditional cookies and soup…… The foods we eat in New year all have special meanings. 3.Traditional Taiwan: Wear new clothes. Korea: Wear hanbok. We all have red envelopes.