Harrison Students Celebrate Chinese New Year

HARRISON, N.Y. -- Fifth-grade students at Harrison's Parsons Elementary celebrated the Chinese New Year recently with a series of activities.

Parsons Elementary students learned how to make red cards as part of their Chinese New Year celebration.
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Parsons Elementary students learned how to make Chinese dumplings during their recent New Year celebration.
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Joe Jenkins

03/01/2014 4:00 a.m.

Students rang in the year 4712, the Year of the Horse, by learning to make Chinese dumplings and red cards with inspirational Chinese symbols.

The Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival as it is referred to in China, is an important national holiday in the traditional Chinese Zodiac calendar. This year’s festivities began on Jan. 31 and lasted for fifteen days.

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