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• The new year is symbolic of letting go of the past and welcoming new beginnings. It’s a tradition to thoroughly clean the home in preparation for the holiday, in order to rid it of any bad feelings that have accumulated there over the past year. The cleaning also satisfies the gods who traditionally come down from heaven for an inspection. Failure to clean can bring bad luck to the family. However, on New Year’s Day, no sweeping or dusting is allowed in a Chinese home due to the fear that good luck and fortune will be swept away. Traditionalists also do not wash their hair on that day, for fear that good luck will be washed away. • The second day of the festival is set aside for kindness to the animal of the year. Since 2019 is the year of the pig, it’s an old Chinese belief Day Two of the new year is the birthday of all pigs, and people should be especially kinds to pigs on that day. • On days three and four, sons-in-law pay respect to their wife’s parents. On the fifth day, brooms and dust pans can once again be brought out, but dirt can only be removed through the home’s back door. The day is spent at home, as it is considered bad luck to visit anyone on that day. On days six through ten, folks are free to call on their loved ones and to visit the temple to pray for good fortune. • Day 7 honors the birthday of all humans, with a drink concocted from seven types of vegetables consumed to celebrate. The day’s menu is raw fish to promote success, and long uncut noodles that represent long life.

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February 6 is Canadian Maple Syrup Day, and Tidbits is dipping into the pot of information about this sticky commodity. • That delicious syrup we pour on our pancakes and waffles is a pretty expensive item because it’s extremely labor intensive to make. A bottle of syrup has its beginnings in a sugar maple, red maple, or black maple tree, although a few other species might be used. The trees accumulate starch in the sap in their trunks and roots before and during winter. The starch converts to sugar, which rises in late winter and early spring. A tree can produce sap for 100 years! • The sap is tapped by drilling holes into the tree trunk. The sap is no longer collected using a spout and a bucket, but rather with suction pumps and tubes, which makes the process much more efficient. The sap, which consists of about 95% water and 5% sugar, is then processed by heating to evaporate most of the water, leaving behind a concentrated syrup. The boiling process is a delicate one, since syrup boiled too long will eventually crystallize, and if it’s not boiled long enough, it will quickly spoil. • In days gone by, sap was moved to a “sugar shack,” a building cooled by a river, then boiled in large cauldrons, which were frequently stirred to prevent crystallization. • Maple syrup was discovered centuries ago by Native Americans. Legend has it that a tribal chief threw a tomahawk at a maple tree, and the sap began to flow. The liquid was collected, and the chief, believing it was water, gave it to his wife to cook up some venison, resulting in a delicious, maple-flavored meat. The Natives showed the extraction process to European settlers. The first written reference to the production of maple syrup was in 1606. ...continued

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• It takes 40 years for a tree to grow enough to produce sap. A single tree yields about 40 gallons of sap Answer: Dell.a year, which may sound like a lot, but consider the fact that it takes 43 gallons of A VERY LARGE NUMBER sap to make just one gallon of syrup. That’s •just Edward Kasnerof was a mathematician. In 1938 one gallon syrup per tree per year! No he was asked to come up with a name for a wonder a 32-oz. jug of syrup retails for around very large number: the numeral one, followed $25. by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young

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