{"id":287,"date":"2025-01-17T08:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/?p=287"},"modified":"2025-01-17T08:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:13:35","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our RME we are finding out about Chinese New Year. We have learned that the new year begins on\u00a0 Wednesday January 29th 2025 and that this is the Year of the Snake. The new year is one of the most important festivals in Chinese culture and we are learning about how it is celebrated throughout the world. We have been learning that red is a lucky colour and that children receive money and sweets in red envelopes! Red is the colour that symbolises good luck in Chinese culture. We have also discovered that Chinese lanterns are a way to let go of the past and to welcome the new year with good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday we made our own Chinese Lanterns, here are some photos of our work:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-287 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0097\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081054\/IMG_0097-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081054\/IMG_0097-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081054\/IMG_0097-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081054\/IMG_0097-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0098\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081059\/IMG_0098-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081059\/IMG_0098-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081059\/IMG_0098-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081059\/IMG_0098-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0095\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081044\/IMG_0095-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081044\/IMG_0095-225x300.jpg 225w, 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https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081103\/IMG_0099-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081103\/IMG_0099-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0096\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081049\/IMG_0096-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081049\/IMG_0096-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081049\/IMG_0096-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081049\/IMG_0096-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0100\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081108\/IMG_0100-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081108\/IMG_0100-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081108\/IMG_0100-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081108\/IMG_0100-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0094\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081040\/IMG_0094-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081040\/IMG_0094-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081040\/IMG_0094-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081040\/IMG_0094-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-288'>\n\t\t\t\tWoven Lanterns\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/img_0102\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081117\/IMG_0102-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081117\/IMG_0102-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081117\/IMG_0102-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081117\/IMG_0102-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/primary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3573\/2025\/01\/17081117\/IMG_0102-rotated.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"px-2 mt-4 text-neutral-700\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our RME we are finding out about Chinese New Year. We have learned that the new year begins on\u00a0 Wednesday January 29th 2025 and that this is the Year of the Snake. The new year is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/2025\/01\/17\/chinese-new-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[48,46,45,47],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p34","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-rme","tag-working-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/primary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}