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Season’s greet­ings and sin­cere wishes for a bright and happy New Year! 献上节日的问候与祝福, 愿你拥有一个充满生机和欢乐的新年。

Chi­nese believe in man­darin orange. The pro­nun­ci­a­tion in Can­tonese will trans­late into what we known has “Gold”. Hope this sea­son you do have lot of Chi­nese Orange dis­play on your table for good luck and pros­per­ous year a head. Good for­tune, great result…

Red & Prosperity

Vis­it­ing and “Ang Pao” (Red Packet with cash) was a norm in Chi­nese com­mu­nity. This day young chil­dren will get abun­dance of loves and wealth from their par­ents and grand­par­ents in the hope that future chil­dren would return the good deed when their par­ent aged. For poor Chi­nese com­mu­nity they do accept red packet with red color paper in it as a sym­bol of appre­ci­a­tion and under­stand­ing. In Malaysia other ethic exam­ple “Malay” has also adopt this tra­di­tion by giv­ing “Green Packet” to chil­dren. Myth: unmar­ried men or women should not give “Ang Pao” to any one… you will have bad luck find­ing your match and worse still not get­ting mar­ried… for­ever! (Umm that’s explain why I am still not married)

Red brings good luck and hap­pi­ness this is the tra­di­tion and believes. When­ever a big cel­e­bra­tion exam­ple wed­ding, mov­ing in new home, birth­day and etc red color would be the color of choice. Chi­nese uses only red ink on tomb stone. For what­ever rea­sons please do not use red ink to write espe­cially their name.

Music

Chi­nese, likes many eth­nic has their own iden­tity dis­play through way of life, cloth, foods and music! I like to ded­i­cate you a very beau­ti­ful Chi­nese new year song for this beau­ti­ful sea­son! The orig­i­nal song was sang by Kelly Chan but was recom­posed to reflex Chi­nese iden­tity and tra­di­tion.

New Year

This is the only days of the year where Chi­nese visit each other to feel the bond­ing again. Chi­nese work really hard, they travel to cities look­ing for for­tune, leav­ing their fam­i­lies and friends behind was the only option. Every New Year, Chi­nese would pay spe­cial atten­tion to their for­tune & wealth – buy­ing new cloth, shoes, and giv­ing “Ang Pao” to their par­ents to shows their suc­cess & appreciation.

In Malaysia, Chi­nese wel­come every one to visit their home dur­ing Chi­nese New Year. Since this was a prac­tices ever since the inde­pen­dence of Malaysia. All eth­nic and races would visit each oth­ers dur­ing Hari Raya, Gawai, Christ­mas, Deep­avali (Diwali) wed­ding, and etc… we serve soft drink, cakes and cook­ies, you might find alco­hol drinks dur­ing open house. (No alco­hol drinks for Hari Raya)
You love the cook­ies & tid­bit above? I like to take this oppor­tu­nity to say Hi and wish­ing a Happy Chi­nese New Year to the fol­low­ing blog­gers. A woman’s Diary (Lady­Bird) | Alice­meow | Blek (Shu) | Blur­ry­hun­niee | Cher­rie| chuanling616 | Claire | Cur­ryEgg | Emila’s Illus­trated Blog (Emila, Artist) | Gar­den Of Eden (-eve-) | going the other way from home (Cathy)
Gos­sip Girl | Hor Ny Ang Moh | Johnny Ong | John­nyQ | Julie’s Blog
JustA ride (_butt) | Keeyit | Lake­trees (Kim, Artist) | Lankapo | Let’s Crap… Let’s Rock | Milky­Cherry | Perly’s Blog (Milky) | Pink Berry Jin­gles (Imag­ica) | Princess Eileen’s Cham­ber of Mem­o­ries | Robyn Tip­pins | sem­bangNtalk | slow­catchup­kuan | Speed­cathol­ly­dale | yLva
~DaphNe-tion of Life~ I haven’t vis­ited your blog for long while. Too much work, busy and excuses (laugh).
Good luck, good health, hood cheer. I wish you a happy New Year.
祝好运、健康、佳肴伴你度过一个快乐新年。

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