Chinese New Year: Year of the rooster
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Kung Hey Fat Choi! (恭喜發財!/Happy New Year!)
In the following I will share with you my first time celebrating CNY.
Before the festival begins, many HK people like to visit flower markets, where you cannot only buy flowers, but also rooster-themed gifts and loads of traditional snacks.
Additionally, people start decorating their homes with traditional decoration like red banners with messages of good luck and fortune on them
These are the red banners I made for my host family.
The left one says "Kung Hey Fat Choi", wich means "Happy New Year".
The right one says "Hey Hey Yeung Yeung", which means "always happy".
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The first two days of the Chinese
New Year are traditionally spent with the familiy, where Children and
unmarried adults will receive red pockets (called lai see), which contain money.
This is me with some of the red pockets I got from my hostfamily and their relatives
The third day of Chinese New Year
is usually spent at temples, where people pray for good luck and good fortune for the
new year.
Lion Dance
Another important part of the Chinese New Year festival is the Lion
Dance, which is a dance performed by two people in one Lion costume
During the Chinese New Year, Lion Dancers will visit homes as part of a traditional custom called "cai qing" (採青), which literally translated means “plucking the greens”. In this custom, the lion dancers will visit peoples homes and pluck vegetables hanging from a rope in front of the premise. This custome is believed to bring luck to the family living is the home.
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| A lion eating te vegetables in front of our house |
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| My Hostfamily and my hostbrothers cousin (right) in front of our house |
I wish you all good fortune, good health, wealth and safety. Thanks for checking out my Blog.
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