How much do you know about Lunar New Year?

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  1. 6. Offering sacrifices to _______ shows respect and piety.
  2. 7. Traditionally, ________ were lit to ward evil spirits to welcome the New Year.
  3. 9. The Chinese would display spring ________ which contains words written on bright red paper to welcome the New Year.
  4. 10. We need to ________ our elders during Lunar New Year to show respect to them.
  5. 11. According to a ________, Lunar New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian (a beast that lives under the sea or in the mountains)
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  1. 1. Chinese families will gather for the annual ________ dinner on the eve of the Lunar Chinese New Year.
  2. 2. Children will receive red packets from their parents and elders as a form of ________ for the New Year.
  3. 3. The ________ is the rules indicating the proper and polite way to behave.
  4. 4. The Chinese ________ is a classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.
  5. 5. The color red is an ________ colour to the Chinese as they believe it would ward off evil spirits and bad fortune.
  6. 8. The exchange of mandarin oranges symbolise ________ and good luck.
  7. 9. It is traditional for families to ________ their houses before Lunar New Year to drive away the bad luck of the previous year to allow for a new start.