Thank you so much for sharing your success. I would love to do what you have done for the past years. However, I had to keep putting it aside year after year. I did demonstrated Chinese calligraphy and told simple story of the Nien to Lauren’s class last year, but that was it… If information can be shared with one another, all of us can certainly make difference, more kids will benefit from our efforts and Chinese culture can be broadcasted better. I appreciate you share your template and format with us.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Michelle

Thank you for your template and beautiful pictures. I am very excited to know that there are more and more people from Chinese school community dedicating their time and effort showing our culture. I would like to echo that it indeed is a very rewarding experience. This is the kind of story we need to share and hear.

I am still doing the Chinese New Year presentations to schools, community centers, corporations and senior centers. Depends on the audiences, I also introduced Kitchen God (灶神), Chinese couplets (春 聯), Chinese zodiac (十二生肖), story of the Nien, New Year’s Eve get-together dinner (年夜飯), 拜年, the Lantern Festival (元宵節), and Lunar calendar (農曆). If your child(ren) has talents such as Chinese Yo-Yo, paper arts, and/or Tai-Chi (or other Chinese martial arts) it is also a great opportunity to demonstrate.

We have been talking for years to provide some type of information sharing sessions to teachers and parents about outside presentations of Chinese culture especially Chinese New Year but it did not work due to short month in December and busy activities in January. If there are any ideas on how to do this or improve it please share your thoughts.

Happy Chinese New Year! 祝您牛轉乾坤行大運

Best Regards,
Tommy,