This the most important even in the entire Chinese festive calendar.
You can join in the colorful spectacle as eager cows through the narrow street of Chinatown up to a month before the New Year. Shopping for all kinds of seasonal delicacies, oranges for good luck, flowers and kunguar trees to beautify their homes, all debts must be settled and the house spotlessly cleaned and redecorated before New Year begins.
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, family relationships, are remembered with a special reunion dinner to usher in the New Year. Then, our the first two days of the year, filial piery is stressed as and younger members of the family visit their relatives, receiving red packets (hong bao) of lucky money and enjoying all kinds of tidbits and cakes. Visit to relatives are conducted according to a traditional order of priority.
In conjunction with lunar celebration an annual procession is held. The Chingay Parade Adds festive atmosphere with walkers, lion and dragon dances, acrobate and dozens of decorated floats taking to the streets amidst the clashing of cymbals and beating of gongs and drums.
This the most important even in the entire Chinese festive calendar.
You can join in the colorful spectacle as eager cows through the narrow street of Chinatown up to a month before the New Year. Shopping for all kinds of seasonal delicacies, oranges for good luck, flowers and kunguar trees to beautify their homes, all debts must be settled and the house spotlessly cleaned and redecorated before New Year begins.
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, family relationships, are remembered with a special reunion dinner to usher in the New Year. Then, our the first two days of the year, filial piery is stressed as and younger members of the family visit their relatives, receiving red packets (hong bao) of lucky money and enjoying all kinds of tidbits and cakes. Visit to relatives are conducted according to a traditional order of priority.
In conjunction with lunar celebration an annual procession is held. The Chingay Parade Adds festive atmosphere with walkers, lion and dragon dances, acrobate and dozens of decorated floats taking to the streets amidst the clashing of cymbals and beating of gongs and drums.