Customs of Chinese New Year in MacauHow to celebrate the New Year in Macau
Have you ever thought of spending a Lunar New Year in a place where churches, forts and other European-style buildings stand? On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Macau's main streets and squares are decorated with lanterns and flowers, and you can spend the Lunar New Year in this small city full of continental flavor by setting off firecrackers and visiting the flower market.
After midnight on New Year's Eve, people visit the A-Ma Temple and Kwun Yum Tong until dawn. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people are excited to visit the homes of their friends and relatives to pay their respects and give each other ? Red packets (紅包). (red envelopes), even for the native Portuguese. In the streets and squares of the city center, there are all kinds of New Year's programs, such as dragon dances, lion dances, music and dance performances, and so on.
The Lantern Festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is another high point of the Lunar New Year, and is also the Chinese Valentine's Day. On the night of the Lantern Festival, apart from viewing lanterns and guessing riddles, people also eat soup dumplings, as they symbolize family reunion and a happy life.
Customs of Hong Kong's Lunar New Year festivities
Walking around the flower _, tasting Lunar New Year food, and going to temples to offer incense and worship? You can feel the same festive atmosphere of traditional Chinese festivals when you celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong!
Lunar New Year Flower Market
As the year draws to a close, join the locals for a stroll through the Lunar New Year flower market to bring home some good luck! There are all kinds of festive flowers and potted plants in the flower_, such as those that mean ? Luck is the name of the game. tangerines, and the "Peach Blossom Luck" plant, which is a symbol of "good luck". Peach Blossom peach blossoms, and special knick-knacks to add cheer to your New Year!
Praying for blessings in the Lunar New Year
There are many good places in Hong Kong where you can pray for blessings. The Wong Tai Sin Temple has the most incense burning, the Yuen Yuen Institute in Tsuen Wan is a good place to pray for good luck, and the Sha Tin _ Kung Temple is a place to turn windmills for good luck. You can also make a wish under the Wishing Tree in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, or visit the Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan to pay homage to Man Cheong Tai and Kwan Tai.
Chinese New Year food
Hong Kong's? Hong Kong offers a wide variety of Chinese New Year dishes and pastries, such as "Fortune Market? For example, "Fat Choy Good Market", or "Fat Choy with Dried Oysters and Vegetables". The Chinese New Year dishes and pastries are very diverse, such as "Fortune and Good Fortune" (发财好市), a dish of dried oysters, and "New Year's Cake" (年糕), a symbol of prosperity. In recent years, there have been many new flavors in Hong Kong's pastries: rice cakes are available in coconut, ginger, black tea, pomelo, chestnut, and even cheese flavors; while turnip cakes are filled with ham, dried scallops, and even flower jelly. When you come to Hong Kong in Chinese New Year, remember to buy some special Lunar New Year celebratory pastries to take home!
How people around the world celebrate New Year
Most countries around the world use the nationally popular calendar? Public, which means that January 1 is taken as the New Year, and our New Year is calculated on the lunar calendar. But there are also those that follow different calendars. Countries also celebrate in a variety of ways, and with the integration of national cultural exchanges, New Year celebrations are becoming more and more similar. Many of these celebrations are characterized by events such as? Countdown? the same way to welcome the arrival of the New Year, such as I over the people? in the New Year's Eve vigil, Europe and the United States are focused on countdown together.
The United States: It is customary to kiss loved ones at midnight when the New Year arrives, hold a champagne toast and make personal New Year's resolutions.
Jews: They use the calendar of the Hebrew culture, so their New Year begins with Rosh Hashanah and ends with Yom Kippur. This 10-day period is a time of atonement.
Thailand: The New Year is celebrated in mid-April as a 3-day festival in which people release fish into rivers as a sign of goodwill.
Belgium: Children write letters to their parents and teach them, and onions are hung on Greek doors as a symbol of rebirth.
Denmark: People eat cake called kransekage, and they throw the dish on someone's doorstep to wish them many friends in the coming year.
Japan: In Japan, Buddhist temple bells ring 108 times and people eat will咋eat twelve meals on that day to pray to God to give them strength.