Today is the 11th day, and you are still reading this series? boy! are you without a life! heh, he! Anyway, glad to share with you the 15 days of CNY…
The friends you missed inviting on the earlier days… remember them today. Get them over for dinner. Lunch also can… especially childhood friends you have [...]
It is very interesting… that the Chinese with more than 5,000 years of civilisation behind them cannot really come up with more things to do for the 15 days of Chinese New Year.
Perhaps this is because most of them would be returning to work or their fields, after the major celebrations of praying to the [...]
The ninth day is to make offerings to the Jade Emperor.
Well… how now? Since the Jade Emperor is no more? The emperors of China (interesting, China never had kings, only emperors!) were known as the Jade Emperor. This is because jade is highly valued in Chinese mythology… more than diamonds.
But these days, if you tried [...]
On this day, people of Hokkien origin, that is people from the Fujian province (facing Taiwan) have a big reunion and pray to the God of Heaven.
This is the day that they celebrate their victory over invaders. Traditionally farmers, the Fujian people were no match for the invaders so when they came, the Fujian people [...]
This is the Chinese equivalent of the harvest festival celebrated by Asian communities, for example the kaamatan of the Kadazans in Sabah or the Gawai of the Ibans in Sarawak (the Kadazans are the majority tribe in Sabah, one of 13 states that make up the federation of Malaysia, while the Ibans are the majority [...]