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Chinese New Year: How It Began |
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1st Blog Series: Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is a special time for Chinese all over the world. It’s kinda like Christmas time for Westerners (minus the Christmas meaning). Familys reunite for dinners and catch up, families visit close friends and eat more. Instead of presents, unmarried people get hongbaos (red packets) of money as a symbol of prosperity and good wishes.
Having celebrated Chinese New Year all my life, I never really treasured the value and importance of it till I missed it for two years when I was in college.
So, from now till the start of Chinese New Year, January 26th, 2009, (and I say start because it’s 15 days long), I’ll be running a series of posts on Chinese New Year. I’ll post about what Chinese New Year is, the history and dynamics behind it and than move on to how my family traditionally celebrates it.
So watch this space!
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Yeah… Chinese new year is coming! Can get lots of angpau and buy sweet sweet
This shows my ignorance, and you may not know, but our brother in law is Korean and the new year to them, we’ve heard, is much bigger than Christmas. Is the Korean celebration of the new year similar to the Chinese? Do you know if they celebrate in the same way? I could always ask him, but thought I’d check with you, first.
Looking forward to your post series!