10th
Annual
Aldrich
Public Library
Chinese
New Year Banquet and Auction
February
13, 2010
Welcome!
This year marks the tenth annual Aldrich Library Chinese New Year
Celebration, and we are very proud to welcome you!
Chinese New Year is a time of reunion and thanksgiving. In
China
this is the holiday for feasting, family, celebration and fireworks. Here in
Barre, Chinese New Year offers us a chance to partake of traditional foods with
one another while welcoming in the Year of the Tiger.
Tonight we honor the members of our own generation as well as those that
have come before us. This is a time of new beginnings, so all debts should be
paid by New Year so as to start the year afresh!
To prepare for the New Year, families in
China
sweep away the bad luck of the past year by cleaning house, then put away all
brooms so as not to sweep away the good fortune of the New Year.
Red is the favorite color for clothing at this time of year, for red is
considered a bright, happy, lucky color and brings good fortune.
Lai-see, the small red envelopes beside your plate, are given for good
luck to children and close relatives in China during New Year’s with crisp new
paper money inside. Traditional New Year’s foods include mandarin oranges, a
symbol of abundant happiness, along with poultry for good luck and success in
the New Year.
Happy
New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Congratulations and Be Prosperous!
