2023五下資優班寒假自主學習報告

 Hello, my name is Jenny Huang.

I would like to tell you about the worship of the Jade Emperor, the cocoa fruit, and the Yuanlin lantern festival.

Worshiping the Jade Emperor.

In Yuanlin ,people are used to worship the Jade Emperor at the entrance of their house after 11:00 p.m. on the day before new year's eve. The purpose is to thank the Jade Emperor for guarding their family in the past year. You can prepare flowers, pineapples, peaches, as well as other sacrifices that can bring fortune ,like steamed sponge cakes, sticky rice cakes, turtle-shaped rice cakes, etc. for the worship. Those sacrifices all represent sweetness and longevity.

Cocoa fruit.

At my cousin's home, there is a cocoa tree garden. When I visited on the Chinese New Year's Day, my cousin gave me one cocoa fruit to share with my gifted classmates for observation. When I got home, I found out that the ripe cocoa fruit is red, and the yellow one my cousin gave me is the unripe one!

 

The Yuanlin lantern festival.

At night, we went to see the Yuanlin lantern festival. It is windy and cold. My two cousins and I ran around excitedly, exclaimed and laughed at the same time. We also took a lot of pictures, including the cute bunny main lantern and a beautiful planet.