The Other New Year [Rough]

The Other New Year

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For many AHS students and communities world-wide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family re-unions, sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and of course everything has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. ??? Transition ???

This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday with gifts, re-unions with relatives that are too occupied to speak to during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright-red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos. They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show their gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quotes>

Due to it being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

The Other New Year

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For many AHS students and communities world-wide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family re-unions<reunions>, sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and<comma> of course<comma> everything has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. ??? Transition ???

This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday with gifts, re-unions<reunions> with relatives that are too occupied to speak to during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright-red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos<italicize>. They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought<hyphen> out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show their gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quotes>

Due to it<delete> being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

The Other New Year

Quotes will be added!

For many AHS students and communities world-wide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. To mark the occasion, <student's name> went out to eat with his family.

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quote>


This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday with gifts, reunions with relatives that you barely see during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright-red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos. They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought-out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show their gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

Being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

he Other New Year

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For many AHS students and communities world-wide<worldwide>, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions <,>sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything <else>has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. To mark the occasion, <student's name> went out to eat with his family.

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quote>


This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday<,> with gifts, reunions with relatives that you barely see during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s New Year holiday<which one?> are red envelopes. These bright-red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos<italicize; it's not English>. They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought-out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show their<his or her> gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao<italicize> often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

Being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

The Other New Year

Just a note for Rena, I'll be cutting the article soon.

Quotes will be added!

For many AHS students and communities worldwide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions ,sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything else has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. To mark the occasion, <student's name> went out to eat with his family.

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quote>


This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday, with gifts, reunions with relatives that you barely see during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s Chinese New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright-red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos.They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought-out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show his or her gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

Being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

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Stanley Shaw
The Other New Year

Quotes will be added!

For many AHS students and communities worldwide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions, sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything else has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. To mark the occasion, <student's name> went out to eat with his family.

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quote>


This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday, with gifts, reunions with relatives that you barely see during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s Chinese New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright-red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos.They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought-out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show his or her gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

Being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

The Other New Year

Just a note for Rena, I'll be cutting the article soon.

Quotes will be added!

For many AHS students and communities worldwide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions ,sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything else has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. To mark the occasion, <student's name> went out to eat with his family.

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quote>


This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday, with gifts, reunions with relatives that you barely see during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s Chinese New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright-red<bright red>, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos.They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought-out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show his or her gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>

Being the most important event in the traditional Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year elicits a large amount of people from the daily hardships of life and gives them a well-earned break. This year, the 113th Golden Dragon Parade took place on Jan. 28 at Chinatown in Los Angeles. The parade, which is organized by Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, celebrates Chinese New Year while promoting ethnic diversity. Spectators were treated to a variety of floats, dragon and lion dances, and other performances. <quote from them, the organizers of the event?>

Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

Sorry for the delays, I'll do my best to get the complete article w/ quotes before 8:00 A.M. on Monday. I'll edit it myself if it's too late by then.

For many AHS students and communities worldwide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions ,sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything else has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color that is often associated with success and good fortune. To mark the occasion, <student's name> went out to eat with his family.

<Family Re-union + dinner Para. w/ quote>


This oriental holiday was just like the first New Years holiday, with gifts, reunions with relatives that you barely see during the year, and fireworks. One thing that was not unique to this (and every other) year’s Chinese New Year holiday are red envelopes. These bright red, horizontal envelopes with a picture of an animal (this year, a dragon) emblazoned on them are also known as hong baos.They are the cultural icons of Chinese New Year and are highly sought-out gifts. These red packets, which are often given to the younger members of a family by their elders, contain an undisclosed amount of money. To show his or her gratitude for the money, the recipient of a hong bao often blesses the elder with good fortune or a long and prospective life. <quote detailing the experience of getting a red envelope>


Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities and one can see that family makes up the core of the holiday. <Another quote along lines of:> The holiday brings together families and helps to cement the relationships between people because it allows them to get together and interact. In the end, it’s better to enjoy eating a multi-course meal surrounded by relatives, watching fireworks explode in the night sky next to mom and dad, or watching a street performance with that outgoing cousin rather than doing all of the above alone. Hopefully, the first month of the year has kicked off to a great year for everyone and will shape up to be the best dragon year yet.

For many AHS students and communities worldwide, the year began again on Jan. 23 as the year of the dragon commenced with family reunions, sumptuous multi-course meals, and, to top it all off, red envelopes packed with new bills. This and, of course, everything else has been splashed with a healthy amount of vibrant red, a color long associated with success and good fortune.
Keeping true to the holiday spirit, senior Ingrid Jin and her family would “go out to eat at a Chinese restaurant during a date around Chinese New Years. But on the actual day, [their] whole family would stay home and have homemade dumplings and sticky cake, etc.” Freshman Brandon Sien went to his uncle’s house where all his family members were gathered. There, his relatives exchanged news and snippets of their lives over “pork and cooked seafood boiled in a hot bowl.” Of course, what fun would a family re-union be without games?
After eating “eggrolls, fish, pork foot, and dumplings,” junior Kevin Kha played “Fish, Shrimp, Crab”. According to him, “This addicting game has players place money on one of several diagrams on a placemat. Three special dices with one of the diagrams on each side are rolled. Whichever diagram shows up on the dice means that the people who betted on that same diagram on the placemat win cash. It’s a great game to play after getting red envelopes.”
One unique item that Chinese New Years has is the red envelope. These red packets have an animal from the Chinese Zodiac emblazoned on them (This year, the dragon) and are extremely valuable because they contain money. Brandon explained that the amount of money “usually has an eight in it because eight is [the] lucky number in Chinese culture and sounds similar to the Chinese word for ‘fortune.” Sophomore Andrew Dang plans on saving the money to “jump start his financial independency at age eighteen.”
Strip Chinese New Year of all the festivities and activities though, and one can see that family makes up the core of this holiday. As freshman Allison Limfat stated, “Chinese New Year is a time where you are always surrounded by people you love – whether it’s watching fireworks [explode] in the starry night sky, or watching festivals with that outgoing cousin, you learn to enjoy every moment that you have with them and never take what you have for granted.”