Chinese New Year by Ellie

Chinese new year is a celebration celebrated by the chinese .They light lanterns every chinese new year and put them high in the sky.Chinese new year does not start at the start of the year because they have a different calendar than us and it is called the zodiac.The zodiac started when one day down at the riverbank the king decided to have a race to decide which of the animals would get to be to be named after a year in the zodiac.Competing in the race was a snake,,horse,goat,monkey,rooster,dog,rat,pig,ox,tiger,rabbit,dragon.At the celebration a group of people get drums and make alot of noise to scare the last year away.Their lucky coulors are red and gold.They have there own dance called the lion dance .2 people dress up in the one very long suit and they work together to do the lion dance.