[00:00.00]Exercise 2.3
[00:08.97]Lucy's family always has a big meal
[00:12.10]on New Year's Eve.
[00:14.51]Lucy's family sometimes goes out for their
[00:17.39]New Year's meal.
[00:19.19]They always eat some special dumplings.
[00:23.48]They never have meatballs.
[00:27.28]People often serve fish.
[00:31.31]In Lucy's house they always eat fish.
[00:36.10]Lucy doesn't like Nian Gao.
[00:45.15]Exercise 3.1
[00:48.59]I spent the Chinese New Year
[00:50.85]with the Zhang family in Beijing.
[00:53.87]There are certain traditions that
[00:55.80]people follow on New Year's Day.
[00:58.40]It was very interesting to look at them.
[01:01.67]I woke up very early
[01:03.41]on the first day of the New Year.
[01:06.25]Everybody in the family more new clothes.
[01:09.66]This is a tradition for New Year.
[01:12.78]Mrs .Zhang made some special cakes
[01:15.06]from rice flour.
[01:17.22]We ate the cakes and drank some tea.
[01:21.17]In the afternoon,
[01:23.08]we went to visit some of the Zhangs'
[01:25.01]friends and neighbors and wished them
[01:27.31]all a Happy New Year.
[01:30.19]During the day,
[01:31.88]Mr. and Mrs.Zhang gave small red packets
[01:35.61]containing money to young friends
[01:37.64]and to children.
[01:39.13]Lucy told me that this tradition is called
[01:41.52]Hong Bao- or Red Packet.
[01:44.50]Red is a lucky color in China.
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