{"id":12980,"date":"2017-01-27T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=12980"},"modified":"2018-01-29T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:48:20","slug":"celebrating-spring-festival-in-a-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/celebrating-spring-festival-in-a-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Spring Festival in a Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All around China, families are gathered together to celebrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/spring-festival-guide\/\">Spring Festival<\/a>. There&#8217;s a massive feast, dragon dances, plenty of red envelopes, the CCTV New Year&#8217;s Gala, and more fireworks than you can imagine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12981\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe.jpg\" aria-label=\"Xiaohe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12981\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12981\"  alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe-350x250.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNY in Xiaohe.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While we were living in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/kunming-the-spring-city\/\">Kunming<\/a>, we had the pleasure of ringing in the Chinese New Year in our friend&#8217;s village of Xiaohe. Check out some highlights from our time celebrating Spring Festival in a Chinese village in this short video:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spring Festival in a Chinese Village\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m9tPfpF1614?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Vocabulary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring Festival (<span class=\"s1\">\u6625\u8282<\/span> &#8211; ch\u016bn ji\u00e9)<\/li>\n<li>Xiaohe (<span class=\"s1\">\u5c0f\u6cb3<\/span> &#8211; xi\u01ceo h\u00e9)<\/li>\n<li>New Year&#8217;s Eve dinner (<span class=\"s1\">\u5e74\u591c\u996d<\/span> &#8211; ni\u00e1n y\u00e8 f\u00e0n)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">firecracker (<span class=\"s1\">\u97ad\u70ae<\/span> &#8211; bi\u0101n p\u00e0o)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">fireworks (<span class=\"s1\">\u70df\u82b1<\/span> &#8211; y\u0101n hu\u0101)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">make New Year visits (<span class=\"s1\">\u62dc\u5e74<\/span> &#8211; b\u00e0i ni\u00e1n)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">nearby\/next to (<span class=\"s1\">\u65c1\u8fb9<\/span> &#8211; p\u00e1ng bi\u0101n)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The men play cards. (<span class=\"s1\">\u7537\u4eba\u6253\u724c<\/span> &#8211; n\u00e1n r\u00e9n d\u01ce p\u00e1i)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">The women chat. (<span class=\"s1\">\u5973\u4eba\u804a\u5929<\/span> &#8211; n\u01da r\u00e9n li\u00e1o ti\u0101n)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">drinking games (<span class=\"s1\">\u559d\u9152\u6e38\u620f <\/span>&#8211; <span class=\"s1\">h<\/span>\u0113 ji\u01d4 y\u00f3u x\u00ec)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">dance (<span class=\"s1\">\u8df3\u821e<\/span> &#8211; ti\u00e0o w\u01d4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe-350x250.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/01\/Xiaohe.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>All around China, families are gathered together to celebrate the Spring Festival. There&#8217;s a massive feast, dragon dances, plenty of red envelopes, the CCTV New Year&#8217;s Gala, and more fireworks than you can imagine. While we were living in Kunming, we had the pleasure of ringing in the Chinese New Year in our friend&#8217;s village&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/celebrating-spring-festival-in-a-village\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":12981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2006,127362,8119,292657,13547,292700,267296,2844,378623,272843],"class_list":["post-12980","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-china","tag-chinese-culture","tag-chinese-food","tag-chinese-holidays","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-chinese-village","tag-rural-china","tag-spring-festival","tag-xiaohe","tag-yunnan-province"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12980\/revisions\/14153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}