That is, Happy Spring Festival! This is the greeting you will hear in the northern parts of China around Chinese New Year, which the Chinese (at least in Shandong) usually call Spring Festival. It's pronounced something like Choon-jeeah kwy-luh. The actual day was February 14th this year, but we did most of our celebrating on the 13th, when we shared a Chinese New Year's party with the Chinese fellowship that we attend. Esther had been watching the Chinese New Year episode of Nihao, Kailan, so she was excited to get to wear special Chinese New Year clothes like Kailan. She was also, naturally, excited about seeing her friends and eating homemade dumplings, a traditional Spring Festival food and one of her favorite meals. Here are a couple of pictures we took (at an earlier date) of her in her Spring Festival jacket.
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