Chinese New year 2016 Animal Monkey Quotes,Facts and Status – Chinese New Year 2016.
Festivals
Here are the Mandarin lyrics for ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’. Click on the words to get a bigger, more readable version.
Here are the lyrics for ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ in Mandarin. Click on the lyrics to get a bigger and more readable version.
BBC Bitesize – KS2 Mandarin – Mid-autumn festival in China. Click on the BBC Bitesize title link below to watch a video about how a Chinese family celebrates this festival.
Perfume pouches popular at Dragon Boat Festival.
Colourful pouches are worn at Dragon Boat Festival. These are filled with Chinese spices and herbs. The idea is that they ward off disease and promote good health.
Have a go at making your own pouch. These are usually made of silk or other cloth and tied with ‘five coloured silk’. You could always make your own version by using five colours of cotton twisted together. Fill your pouch with nice smelling fresh herbs, cloves or other whole spices.
Medicinal herbs used by the Chinese at the time of 端午节 (Dragon Boat Festival).
This is Mugwort, a plant which is used in a number of ways in traditional Chinese medicine to promote health and treat illness. It is used to kill harmful bacteria and fungi. Mugwort oil is also used to repel insects.
Calamus is also hung on doorways at Dragon Boat Festival. It smells sweet and the plant is also used in traditional Chinese medicine for a number of illnesses.
At Dragon Boat Festival, many households are decorated with these two herbs. Can you think of a time of a festival when people in Britain bring greenery into the house to decorate and perfume the rooms?
