Week Ten Text Blog Entry Eight - an article about my country in the international press

There are 12 animals, which is used to symbolize every year who is born in China. This year is “golden pig”year, which comes around once every 60 years. There have a link to a article about it.


This year is the second year to sold firecrackers in Beijing. There were more than 380,000 boxes of firecrackers sold, which was much more than last year. Astrologers said people born during the Year of the Pig are lucky. As a result, many people get married during this year and have a baby. People used the mobile phone to sent text messages wishing each other a fortunate New Year. People went to the temples to burn incense and pray a fortunate New Year. In addition, people went to traditional temple fairs to celebrate New Year. In temple fairs, you can bought caramel sweets blown with a pig shapes. Many people went to their hometown to celebrate New Year. People who live in the western country had been celebrating for days. China's most powerful leaders went to the countryside to visit some of the hundreds of millions of farmers. During the festival, nobody will cut their hair. Because it might not have good lucky.