Chinese New Year is such a wonderful holiday and I’m so glad it’s becoming more well known in the US. We desperately need a mid winter celebration for the lingering cold days (yes there’s Valentine’s Day but that’s more for couples and less about togetherness). I love Chinese culture and I hope to respectfully integrate this into my family’s life. Not a bastardization like cinco de mayo, but a chance to learn and enjoy.
Actually, Cinco De Mayo is not a holiday for Mexicans, that day Mexico beat France. Rather - September 16th is the holiday celebrated, it is the actual Mexican Independence Day.
In Malaysia, the Hokkien community celebrate the 9th day. 拜天公. Sugarcane is tied to house gates. On some years, there is more firecracker action when midnight strikes on 年初九 than 大年初一.
Evening of 8th is Pai Thi Kong/Bai Tian Gong, believed to be the ‘survival day’ of Minnan Hokkiens. Many call it Hokkien new year. On 15th day, we call it tsap goh meh, Old families of Straits Chinese people celebrate valentines day, where the young nyonya (creole chinese women) allowed to be out in the crowd. tangerines with names written were thrown into the river or the shores for young lucky men to retrieve. The Peranakans also eat sweet soup called Pengat and sing Dondang Sayang and dance Ronggeng. On that same day, In Singkawang, Kalimantan, the Hakkas would hold procession of spirit mediums. Tainan, Taiwan would parade out deities in sedan chairs from morning til night.
We Koreans celebrate Seollal with rice cake soup. We also perform Saebae ( honoring and bowing to parents and older relatives). We wear new clothes and play Yut nori.
My partner and in-laws are Chinese. Celebrations are becoming more muted year by year due to the distance of the family (we moved from US to Canada) and COVID. However, it's the only part of the year I don't have to do cleaning as my partner insists on doing it all. Yay.
I don’t celebrate Chinese New Year but I find it fascinating! It would be cool to some what follow a long and take some lessons from such a wonderful holiday.
Ty 🙌🏻 for this! It seriously gets me in the mood on visiting my Chinese Family in Hawaii right on Chinese New Year! Wish the Best of a New Year to You, Incoming new member, & your Loved Ones!🧧👍
I found this channel when I decided that I would try to teach myself Chinese... (Talk about a challenge. O_o') I was wondering why I hadn't seen any updates and NOW I'M ECSTATIC!! Congratulations! I hope you and your little one have a healthy birth
Thank you for this video! And I'm sure it's time consuming, but thank you for the cantonese and mandarin subtitles throughout the video! Helps me practice my cantonese and learn some mandarin. And congratulations on the baby!
*Congratulations on the baby!! 🎉* I didn’t really follow traditions whenever Chinese New Year came around (partially because my family isn’t very knowledgeable on the them and I wasn’t too interested when I was younger) but even so, my family wanted to do something for us (my cousin and I) and it’s one of the few things that still connects me back to my roots so learning all these, I might start to research more about them and potentially partake in them if I can (The most on Chinese New Year I’ve done was order Chinese take out, and receive red envelopes 🧧 I used to attend dragon dances but haven’t been to one since the pandemic started, I also had a Qipao/Cheongsam I’d wear but it doesn’t fit me anymore)
This was an awesome video , thank you for sharing ... we are learning about different ways we can create a tradition in our family to continue on each generation 🙏🏼
Very informative. Would love to see something about how Christians could honor this holiday. My understanding is it's going to be very divisive for Chinese Christians.
My dad hired a cleaner several days before chinese new year. Also he paid someone to mow the lawn. He said he wanted to have it clean for the new year. The night before new year we ate good meal at home. Covid made us unable to celebrate with cousins, aunties, uncles. Must stay at home. Government's order. At least good aunties still gave me angpao (the red envelope )!
Oh. That makes sense for garbage day. I was curious but never asked my parents. I always waited until my township’s next garbage day. Lol Congrats!! My wife is also going to have a Tiger baby this year!!
this year I was going to do Chinese New Year but I couldn't figure out how I wanted to celebrate it and I didn't know the culture as well but I celebrated last year so because there's a few more days I think although it is kind of disrespectful I think I might just celebrate by having a toast of soda of course because I'm a kid but having a toast to how lucky I've been this year and how lucky I'll be next year (next Chinese New Year and this Chinese New Year)
Honestly, since cleaning day is on a Sunday, and looking at the state of my bedroom that might just be the fire under my ass I need to actually do something about it.
congratulations on the baby and sun yin fai lok. I know I didnt pronounce that right. but I can say it better then pronounce it. anyways. when I was with former gf at the time. cny eve we would pour tea for the elders and eat sweet candy and that would be considered good luck for the year. the days after cny would just be dull. I know with alot of covid restrictions things are gonna suck this year. but I'll keep the spirit alive because this year is year of the tiger fierce adventurous and brave.
Can you make video about tea? A beginner's guide to Chinese tea. I become interested in tea because I saw Chinese tea table in my father's friend's office and I saw big tea cabinet. When I wrote this comment, I suddenly think about Chinese literature, Why are there so few modern Asian/Chinese writers
