Celebrating the Year of the Pig (By Meishing Chen, Mandarin teacher )
World Language Mandarin students celebrated the Year of the Pig Chinese New Year with gifts, food, games, and of course, the red envelope.
In Chinese culture, a pig represents luck, overall good fortune, wealth, honesty, and general prosperity. The pig symbolizes a hard working, peace-loving person, a truthful, generous, sociable person with a large sense of humor and understanding. Recent Years of the Pig are:1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, and 2019.
Mandarin students and many Chinese international students started Chinese New Year preparations right after Winter Term, working hard to get ready for their traditional on-campus event. Mandarin students did lucky-pig paper cutting and decorated the school. They also drew and designed bookmarks that they put in red envelopes for faculty mailboxes.
Everyone helped at the event. We all worked like a big family and enjoyed ourselves a lot. Many students and staff came to enjoy the food, games and crafts, and shared in the fun with us.
St. Michael’s is an actual multicultural world village. We are planning another astonishing Chinese New Year celebration for next year. Please come if you missed out on the event this year!
In Chinese culture, a pig represents luck, overall good fortune, wealth, honesty, and general prosperity. The pig symbolizes a hard working, peace-loving person, a truthful, generous, sociable person with a large sense of humor and understanding. Recent Years of the Pig are:1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, and 2019.
Mandarin students and many Chinese international students started Chinese New Year preparations right after Winter Term, working hard to get ready for their traditional on-campus event. Mandarin students did lucky-pig paper cutting and decorated the school. They also drew and designed bookmarks that they put in red envelopes for faculty mailboxes.
Everyone helped at the event. We all worked like a big family and enjoyed ourselves a lot. Many students and staff came to enjoy the food, games and crafts, and shared in the fun with us.
St. Michael’s is an actual multicultural world village. We are planning another astonishing Chinese New Year celebration for next year. Please come if you missed out on the event this year!
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