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Gung Hey Fat Choi! Happy year of the Rat
We did a dragon dance to Chinese New year music today in Woodcraft and made Chinese paper lanterns, ate spring rolls and read the story of the Chinese zodiac.
This is the year of the Rat (Chinese:鼠) who was welcomed in ancient times as a protector and bringer of material prosperity. It is the first of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Rat is associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order, yet also associated with death, war, the occult, pestilence, and atrocities. The Year of the Rat is associated with the earthly branch symbol 子.
(the first picture, the dragon head is home made, the lion head was bought from Tehos shop!)
We took lots of sparkly material, puppets, a puppet theatre and facepaints and in two groups made up short and bizarre plays! We showed them to each other - one was about the 2 Cinderellas and the Rainbow Cat and the other was about The Ladybird and the Tree that fell in the Sea.
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