OEC will hold Spring Festival Celebrations. OEC invites all students who stay on campus to the annual Spring Festival Celebrations. This year's Celebrations are filled with wonderful performance and yes! come and get a chance to win your Lucky Money.

Time: Feb. 2nd @ 2:00 PM

Venue: the Fourth Canteen

Chinese New Year, also called Spring Festival, has more than 4,000 years of history. It is the grandest and the most important annual event for Chinese people. Originating during the Shang Dynasty (17th - 11th century BC), the festival used to be observed to fight against the monster "Nian" who liked to eat children and livestock. The monster was afraid of red color and loud sound. Therefore, people decorated their houses in red and set off firecrackers to expel it. Before the Spring Festival, every family will have a thorough house cleanup and go for festival items shopping. The spring couplets, Fu Character, and animal paper cut are pasted for decoration. Also, new clothes must be bought, especially for children. At the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, people from north will eat dumplings, which southern people are used to have Niangao (glutinous rice cake). Red Envelopes are given to kids and elders to share the blessing.

Do you know the 12 animal signs of Chinese zodiac?

Happy 2016 Chinese New Year, the Year of the Money.

(School of Food and Biological Engineering)