Coloring is a fun activity that will help your child learn about the Chinese culture. Coloring
pages for the Chinese
New Year related customs can also be used as a school project.
Chinese
New Year is the most important holiday for the Chinese and is two weeks
long and ends with the Lantern Festival.
Just
click the Chinese Coloring New Year Page/Image you want and print.
Let
your child color the drawings/graphics with her favorite materials.
Do post the finished coloring picture for the whole
family to see.
Cleaning the house in preparation for
Chinese New Years is a way go get rid of bad luck, so the New Year is
lucky. For decorations, the color red is used.
The kitchen god watches over the household and gives a report
to the Jade Emperor on the household for Chinese New Year. Often bribed with fruit in
front of him as well as incense.
Drawings of them are put on the gates to guard
the house during Chinese New Year and keep bad things out such as Monsters
and Ghosts that might cause bad luck.
Lion Dances during the New Year are done
to bring Good Luck by chasing away evil spirits with loud noises from the
fire crackers and drums and the face of the Lion.
