[00:00.00]UNIT 6
[00:11.94]Lesson 22
[00:17.65]Exercise 1.2
[00:20.11]Hi, Dave
[00:21.56]Thanks for your message.
[00:23.55]I'm having a great time here in Beijing.
[00:27.00]It's a very special time now
[00:29.52]because Chinese people are getting ready
[00:31.69]to celebrate the New Year.
[00:34.32]This is the most important festival of the year.
[00:37.80]It is a time when all the family gets together
[00:41.88]-just like Thanksgiving and Christmas
[00:44.01]in the United States.
[00:46.06]As I told you before,
[00:48.24]I'm staying with the Zhang family.
[00:51.36]When they are preparing for New Year,
[00:53.88]there are many special traditions
[00:56.43]and the Zhangs are following some of them.
[00:59.48]For example,right now,
[01:02.61]Mrs ,Zhang is cleaning the house.
[01:06.04]People clean their houses from top to bottom.
[01:10.49]Mr. Zhang is painting the window frames
[01:13.18]of the house with red paint.
[01:16.14]This is another tradition.
[01:18.79]I think red is supposed to be a lucky color.
[01:23.69]Lucy, the Zhangs' daughter,
[01:25.93]is writing out a short couplets
[01:28.52]to hang on the door.
[01:30.29]She's painting with black paint
[01:32.99]on pieces of red paper.
[01:36.12]The couplets are very short - only two lines.
[01:41.27]Chinese people hang these couplets
[01:43.63]on their front doors -
[01:45.76]one line on each side of the door.
[01:49.31]That's all for now.
[01:51.63]I'll write again in a few days.
[01:54.40]Take care.
[00:00.01]Josh
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