Reading Matters.

In just a few weeks, Chinese New Year will be upon us.  Books about a specific holiday or tradition are a great way to introduce your child in Huntington Beach to Read.

Reading every day will help build their vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, and Reading skills.

A tutor can read with your child, or listen to them read on their own helping with pronunciation and difficult words.  A Reading tutor can read your child this legend about Chinese New Year (as found on Expatica.com):

 

In the 14th century, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang decided to use the word “Fú” as a hidden signal to prepare for killing someone. His wife, the Empress Ma, was very concerned that this might turn into a killing spree.

In order to prevent this, Empress Ma thought of an idea. She gave a secret order to all the families in the city that by sunrise of the next day, every family needed to post the character “Fú” on their doors. Every family obeyed the order.

However, there was one illiterate family whose owner had pasted the “Fú” upside down. The next day, Emperor Zhu saw that all the families had his secret signal but one family got the character wrong. He was furious, and ordered that family to be executed immediately.

The Empress Ma found out about this. She was very clever, and said to the emperor: “That family knew you would come today. They pasted the word upside down, so that it now reads: ‘blessing arrives’. Isn’t this what your presence means to them?”

After hearing this, the Emperor was so pleased that he released the family. From that point on, people started to place the “Fú” upside down, and since then it has become a Chinese New Year tradition.

Reading this legend with your child will make the Chinese New Year on January 23^rd a bit more interesting to them.

They might be inspired to read this story to others, or begin Reading about some other upcoming holidays on their own or with their Tutor.

 

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