PhotoAsia Blog » Info http://blog.photoasia.com.my Powerful Pictures Speak! Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:44:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Gong Xi Fa Cai! http://blog.photoasia.com.my/gong-xi-fa-cai/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.photoasia.com.my/gong-xi-fa-cai/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:59:51 +0000 doreenlau http://blog.photoasia.com.my/?p=288
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    Red Chinese lanterns

    Red Chinese lanterns display at Thean Hou Temple, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during Chinese New Year celebrations. Photo Credits: Wong Sze Fei

    The Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is the most important annual festival for the Chinese community and is celebrated all over Malaysia. The first day of spring in the Lunar Calendar this year falls on the 14th of February 2010.

    Marking the first day of the first new moon, Chinese New Year is traditionally an occasion to settle old debts and begin the year with a clean slate. Prayers and offerings are made. New clothes are bought and plenty of food are prepared. Although the festivities continues for fifteen days, the main festival is celebrated on the first three days. On the eve of the Chinese New Year, the family have a joint family dinner to welcome the New Year. Younger ones of the family visit their relatives and get red packets of lucky money known as ang pow as gifts.

    PhotoAsia would like to take this opportunity to wish all our friends, good fortune, good health and a prosperous new year!

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