SW shares the festive fun
Photos courtesy of Bangkok Post, EPA, AFP and AP
By Itsarin Tisantia
Chinese New Year’s Day comes once again on February 10. On this special occasion, Chinese people and others who love a good celebration will see in the Year of the Snake with special events around the globe.
For Freeze Frame this week, SW takes a look at festive events that were held internationally to celebrate last Chinese New Year.
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Performers take part in Chinese New Year celebrations in London, England. The street was packed for the colourful parade. |
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Filipinos watch a dragon dance to mark Chinese New Year in the Binondo Chinatown district of Manila in the Philippines. |
Devout Buddhists participate in an annual ceremony to worship the Chinese god Kong Ju Thian, and to pray for health and happiness at Phomankhunaram Temple in Yannawa, Bangkok. |
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People reach out to touch dragon dancers as they parade through Chinatown during a Chinese Lunar New Year parade in New York, USA. |
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Performers from Shaanxi, China, make their way down a specially constructed, 360 metre-long waterway with a flying dragon at the annual Chinese New Year Chingay Parade in Singapore. |
Exercises
Find vocabulary words used in the story that are synonyms of the following words.
1. River ……………………..
2. Avenue ……………………..
3. Yearly ……………………..
4. Earth ……………………..
Vocabulary
- festive (adj): typical of a special event or celebration
devout (adj): believing strongly in a particular religion and obeying its laws and practices
waterway (n): a river, canal, etc. along which boats can travel
