Challenge Chinese New Year Crossword
Across
- 3. I burn on the ancestral altar. I make everything sweet. What am I?
- 5. Our Chinese name is ''yu,'' which also means abundance. On New Year's Eve, we are a course at a great banquet. Here we lie painted on a pair of dishes. What are we
- 6. When I am little, I am not myself. I am green and sour. But as I grow older, I become my name. What am I?
- 7. In Cantonese, they call me ''ha.'' At New Year, I come out of the sea to get baked into dumplings and pastries. What am I?
- 8. This will be the year to drink me, for on Monday begins the Year of the Snake, and in China, snakes are known as little dragons. I am called black dragon tea, but I also have another name. What is it?
Down
- 1. When family members can't come home for new year, a place is set for them at the banquet table. When friends are absent, they send me. What am I?
- 2. Two houses with doors wide open. They allow a million people in but can’t stand a tiny grain.
- 4. Dragons climb my side, steam pours from my mouth, but no one is afraid of me. What am I?
- 5. I am neither food nor drink. I am neither in the house nor in the yard. I am neither on land nor on sea. Yet I am both in the city and in the country. Without me there would be no New Year. What am I?''