Descriptive Essay: Chinese New Year

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“Whizz. BANG!” It was that time of year again. A time where streets are lit up with bright flamboyant lights, sounds of crackling fireworks can be heard a mile away and the laughter of jovial people fill the air.

Unfamiliar faces would be seen around the neighbourhood, as people who live far away from their families go home, as it is a festival of family reunion. To welcome the momentum of Chinese New Year, some of the household prepared a month before the Chinese New Year for decoration and clean house thoroughly. Houses are decorated with full of red and orange objects as these colours are often associated with good luck, wealth and longevity in Chinese culture. Decoration with the accompaniment of paper-cuts and couplets outstanded the …show more content…

The taste is incredible, it sinks your teeth right into the soft juiciness of the delicious fruit that will always satisfy someone. Less sour, but at the same time as sweet as an orange. Ripe tangerine, firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size and has pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves, is placed on a table covered with a red silky cloth, located at the corner of the garden. A beam of soft but brilliant light shines onto the thick skin of the tangerines, attracting children to surround the table.

In each household, there will be tons of red, pink or orange clothings, worn by the youngs and olds. Dim but still visible red lanterns were hung all around the little but olive trees. Red decorated envelopes that have Chinese writing written all over, were filled with cash and were given to the young by the elderlies. Children and young visitors received red envelopes filled with cash with excitement and happiness. Broad, happy and eager smiles started to appear on their faces once they laid their eager hands onto the opening of the envelope and peeked inside with their unblinking …show more content…

This is where all the family members gathered around together to dine which also known as “Reunion dinner”. Platters and dishes filled with an assortment of : spring rolls, chinese dumplings, longevity noodles and varieties of Chinese New Year’s biscuits. The main dish in Chinese New Year is “Yee Sang”, this is the first dish that is served. We can see different kinds of side-dishes like: abalone, raw salmon, crackers, shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments. We will then mix it, elderly would also shout out some prosperity words which will bring them fortune throughout the whole year. It is now as colourful as a rainbow when all of the side dishes are mixed. The taste is perfect, involving sweet and sour. Chinese dumplings are a classic Chinese dish which hidden the meaning of being wealthy. Chinese Dumplings vary from others, the first mouthful of it you can taste the minced meat and finely-chopped vegetables which is wrapped around a thin and elastic dough. An atmosphere full of noises; lead the Chinese New Year’s crowd. All of them are talking in different dialects, which made the atmosphere more crowded. Chatter filled the room as everyone began indulging on mouthwatering food which nostalgically brought back long old memories of celebrating this prosperous holiday. Scrumptious food was served on a turning table platter; children would sit on a more dainty table

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