The new year's eve sumptuous prosperity-eight course dinner, anpows, followed by the sound of the firecrackers exploding before the dinner added to the merry during the family reunion to welcome the new 牛 (niu) year.
Chinese New Year is the most elaborate event for all Chinese around the world, is also the time for the Chinese to congratulate each other and themselves on having passed through another year, a time to finish out the old, and to welcome in the new year.
Dining tables during Chinese New Year will not only be laden with food, but also with fortune and symbolic meanings often alluding to wealth, health, and prosperity.
Dishes from fish in Chinese adage 'nian nian you yu' which translates as 'may you have abundance every year', and which also sounds like the phrase 'every year have fish' to the fruits like tangerines, that sounds like the word for 'gold' and noodles of longevity signify a long life.
Dishes from fish in Chinese adage 'nian nian you yu' which translates as 'may you have abundance every year', and which also sounds like the phrase 'every year have fish' to the fruits like tangerines, that sounds like the word for 'gold' and noodles of longevity signify a long life.
The sound of exploding firecrackers is to chase away 'nien' (evil spirits) ... letting off firecrackers and fireworks is banned in Malaysia but somehow the items still get through the border illegally.
Most Chinese houses still have them. Over the local news recently in Sibu, banned firecrackers and fireworks were seized few days before the new year.
And last night despite raining, the letting off firecrackers still on but rather reduced compared to many previous years.
It was 12.15am when I returned to the house and straight to my bed.
Pixs. Trying to catch the busting fireworks in the sky last night with Olympus FE-360 rather successful.
My budget FE-360 Olympus.
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