Chinese New Year rocks!
2008-02-11
Today is the last of the Chinese New Year holidays. This Chinese New Year week always ran by so fast. And as usual, I got a lot of lucky money from my family, yeah! I love Chinese New Year.
Ok, let's talk about Chinese New Year a little bit more. Chinese New Year day is different every year if you count it based on the Western calender. It is the first day of Chinese calender which is also known as "lunar calender."
Chinese New Year holiday week usually last for 6 days. It starts from the last day of a year to the fifth day of the new year. In Chinese New Year holiday week, most of the companies won't run except for some international firms because the other countries don't celebrate Chinese New Year. In order to keep the company running internationally, the international firm branches in Taiwan will only have 3~4 days off during that week.
And what do we do during Chinese New Year holiday?
We, the family members, should gather together on the last day of a year and have a great family supper together. We also call that supper "Nie Yeeh Fun" which is "year night supper" in English. Well....it might not make sense to you if I translate it to English directly.........
(The great supper this year, oh yeah! Yum!)
And later on that night, we will stay up and play the fireworks until sun is awake. There was a story behind that tradition. Way past in the history, people believed that on the last day of a Chinese Year, the "Nie Hso", as known as "year monster", would come out and eat people alive. Therefore, the people in the old times needed to stay up all night and stay alarmed to prevent the fate of being eaten. And moreover, we used fireworks to scare the year monster away.
As time pasts by, we still keep our traditions of playing fireworks and staying up all night.
And we also do other stuffs to keep ourselves awake on the last night of a year. We also gamble........well....gambling is illegal in Taiwan. But we still gamble on the last night of a year to keep ourselves excited. I was really luck this year. I won around 70 USD! Hehehehe!
(No one wanna show their faces because gambling is illegal in Taiwan. & Taiwanese money!)
And on the 2nd day of a new year, if you are married, you should go to bride's home. It is a tradition.
Ok.....that should be it. These things are what I do every year....haha. How fun!
Today is the last of the Chinese New Year holidays. This Chinese New Year week always ran by so fast. And as usual, I got a lot of lucky money from my family, yeah! I love Chinese New Year.
Ok, let's talk about Chinese New Year a little bit more. Chinese New Year day is different every year if you count it based on the Western calender. It is the first day of Chinese calender which is also known as "lunar calender."
Chinese New Year holiday week usually last for 6 days. It starts from the last day of a year to the fifth day of the new year. In Chinese New Year holiday week, most of the companies won't run except for some international firms because the other countries don't celebrate Chinese New Year. In order to keep the company running internationally, the international firm branches in Taiwan will only have 3~4 days off during that week.
And what do we do during Chinese New Year holiday?
We, the family members, should gather together on the last day of a year and have a great family supper together. We also call that supper "Nie Yeeh Fun" which is "year night supper" in English. Well....it might not make sense to you if I translate it to English directly.........
(The great supper this year, oh yeah! Yum!)
And later on that night, we will stay up and play the fireworks until sun is awake. There was a story behind that tradition. Way past in the history, people believed that on the last day of a Chinese Year, the "Nie Hso", as known as "year monster", would come out and eat people alive. Therefore, the people in the old times needed to stay up all night and stay alarmed to prevent the fate of being eaten. And moreover, we used fireworks to scare the year monster away.
As time pasts by, we still keep our traditions of playing fireworks and staying up all night.
And we also do other stuffs to keep ourselves awake on the last night of a year. We also gamble........well....gambling is illegal in Taiwan. But we still gamble on the last night of a year to keep ourselves excited. I was really luck this year. I won around 70 USD! Hehehehe!
(No one wanna show their faces because gambling is illegal in Taiwan. & Taiwanese money!)
And on the 2nd day of a new year, if you are married, you should go to bride's home. It is a tradition.
Ok.....that should be it. These things are what I do every year....haha. How fun!
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