TANGERINE



**Chinese New Year**

Introduction The Chinese New Year is undoubtedly the most celebrated event by the Chinese. It is celebrated in the first 15 days of the Chinese lunar year. In Malaysia, the first 2 days is a Public Holiday (except for Terengganu and Kelantan where only the first day is a public holiday). The dates every year is different, but it will always fall between the 21st of January and 20th of February. It is often celebrated with the start of Spring, will falls on February 4th.

Mythology According to tales and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against a mythical beast called the Nian or "Year" in Chinese. Nian would come on the first day of New Year to devour livestock, crops, and even villagers, especially children. To protect themselves, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nian ate the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack any more people. One time, people saw that the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid of the color red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used firecrackers to frighten away the Nian. From then on, the Nian never came to the village again. The Nian was eventually captured by, an ancient Taoist monk. The Nian became's mount.

Culture & Tradition To the Chinese, the most important festival is Chinese New Year, which falls in either January or February. It is ushered in with the lighting of fire crackers at midnight on the eve of the Chinese Lunar Calendar.The colorful spectacle of Chinese New Year is evident long before the day of celebration itself. Eager crowds of shoppers can be seen searching for all kinds of seasonal delicacies: oranges for good luck, flowers and kumquat trees to beautify their homes. All debts must be settled and the house spotlessly cleaned before the new year begins.

On the even of the New Year, family relationships are remembered with a special reunion dinner to usher in the New Year. Younger members of the family visit their relatives, receiving red packets of lucky money (ang paus) while feasting and merrymaking.The Chingay parade adds to the festive atmosphere with stilt walkers, lion and dragon dances, acrobats, and dozens of decorated floats taking to the streets amidst the clashing of cymbals and beating of gongs and drums.Penang is the place to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Tangerine Group Member
 * 1) Amelia Ameran 1081106722
 * 2) Farah Izyan Adnan 1081106582
 * 3) Faizah Nasriah Osman 1081106147
 * 4) Siti Norhidayu Md Rosli 1081101316
 * 5) Aziyyati Kamaruzaman 1071119485

Proposal on CNY Assignment III (latest update)

Description The Lunar New Year or it is more commonly known as Chinese New Year (CNY),is another festival celebration exist in Malaysia celebrated among the Chinese people.This festival highlights some of the most fascinating aspects of Chinese tradition and rituals. It is a special day for all the family members to gather around and have a pleasant quality time with their family and friends. A typical tradition during CNY, most of the family will be having their dinner together,enjoying the lion dance & firecrackers show as their part of tradition, mahjong, mandarin oranges and giving/collecting ang pow or token of money from the adults and married couple.

Objectives
 * To emphasize on the importance of Chinese tradition and culture in this festival
 * To create awareness among our multi racial citizen on the definition of Chinese New Year celebration
 * To deliver a brief idea on CNY history, time line, tradition and values
 * To acknowledge other racial on the uniqueness of CNY festival
 * To summarize the study of Chinese New Year festival for better understanding

Target Audience For this project,we were assigned to create an informative website on our festival selection,Chinese New Year. Therefore,our target audience are clearly from the level of schoolers up to young adult user. We chose both range because it is so much easier to understand their needs in how they want the website to be done.

 Web Template Characteristics The website development for our CNY festival has undergo several phases of discussion and research in order to meet our specification in serving our target audience. We encounter few problems in our way to find suitable theme for our template hence we need to ensure that we are in right lane to reach our goals.Our idea on this website:-
 * Schoolers
 * We are targeting on pupils because we want to deliver a clear summary on the importance of having to celebrate CNY as a part of Malaysian culture. It is important for them to understand bit by bit on how this celebration is done instead of yearning to receive ang-pow.
 * Young adults
 * These days,the heritage and culture of CNY celebration seems to fade away day by day caused by the trend and environment. Thus,our mission in developing this website is to ensure that we can create the awareness among young adults on the importance of Chinese tradition that must be follow and to remember the value of celebration that we perceived from our ancestor.
 * Simple yet eye catching
 * Color mood suits with CNY theme
 * The sequence of information must be in order
 * The information is summarized and filled with media rich (images,graphic,interactivity etc)
 * Focus more on flexibility of the website than perfection
 * Content,attractive,appealing and deliverable to the audience

Job Task


 * 1) Home CNY - Amelia Ameran 1081106722
 * 2) Description - Farah Izyan Adnan 1081106582
 * 3) Reference - Faizah Nasriah Osman 1081106147
 * 4) Characteristics- Siti Norhidayu Md Rosli 1081101316
 * 5) Initial design- Aziyyati Kamaruzaman 1071119485

Initial Design

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