Chinese celebrations

Welcome to the Rabbit

By Richard Wang

2023 is the Year of the Rabbit and the students at St Edward’s College are preparing to celebrate it. At the college we have a number of Chinese students so that makes it possible.

Lunar New year is the most important festival of China; it is the most tremendous and oldest of traditions. The Chinese New Year can be dated to have more than 2000 years of history; thus the origin still has many sayings. Now the Spring Festival is mainly a folk entertainment carnival, with fireworks all over the sky, saying goodbye to the old year, and greeting the new year with other activities. As for tradition, every 12 years is considered as a period and each year in the period is represented by an animal as the mascot which goes: Rat; Ox; Tiger; Rabbit; Dragon; Snake; Horse; Goat; Monkey; Rooster; Dog; Pig. For this year, it is the year of Rabbit, which means that everyone who has their Chinese Zodiac to be Rabbit will be their year.

As in Malta, many activities are celebrated each year as well, for instance: writing Spring Festival couplets, pasting window grilles, performing dragon and lion

dances with traditional customs, making dumplings, cooking glutinous rice balls and other delicacies.

Visit by reading ambassadors

Over the past weeks, the Junior School took part in the Reading Ambassadors/Ambaxxaturi tal-Qari programme organised by National Literacy Agency. The article which appeared in the last Dwardu’s Scoops was erroneously attributed to one teacher when in fact it was the whole team of Maltese teachers that was involved. The inconvenience is regretted.

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