Today is New Year's eve
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
China
January 22, 2012 12:08am CST
Today is New Year’s eve .Tomorrow is the lunar New Year’s Day ,i.e.the Spring Festical, which is our traditional festival and the time family reunion.I usually come here on mylot in the afternoon, but today I do it in the morning,because in the afternoon I have to help my wife to cook festive dinner in which there are at least ten courses.After festive dinner, our whole family like innumerable families will watch the CCTV Spring Festible Gala Evening that is also referred to as cultural grand banquet for the people of whole country and will last until the small hours next day.The young people may make a night of it.
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@much2say (55901)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Jan 12
Happy New Year, changjiangzhibin89! How wonderful you are helping your wife with the cooking . . . surely there must be traditional foods you eat on this particular occasion, with different meanings? Ten courses - WOW! Enjoy good eats and time with your family during the whole festival!!
As you know, we are not Chinese, but I am doing my best to celebrate a mini Chinese New Year over here - just for us. I have a sort of Chinese menu prepared for tomorrow night, and today I am hoping to do some crafts about it with my daughter. I think next year we will try to hit Chinatown - but today it is cold and may possibly rain. Currently I am looking for any Chinese New Year events closer to us.
May you and your family have a grand new year!!!
@much2say (55901)
• Los Angeles, California
23 Jan 12
Hope you are enjoying today's New Year's events! All over Facebook I am reading everyone's greetings about the Chinese New Year! Wow - ten days in advance for cooking - must be some fancy dishes! Mine is not as fancy - in fact probably not traditional - but it will be our way of celebrating the Chinese New Year for this year. My daughter made some paper lanterns and fans in which we put on a string and hung them across the family room. I will be making a couple red envelopes to put just a dollar in for both kids. Oh - and today my little son and I went to the library to pick out some childrens books on the Chinese New Year - so I will be reading it to them when my oldest comes home from school. Her teacher had some gung hay fat choy signs hung up on the board this morning. And believe it or not one boy in the class wore the traditional Chinese clothing - red and gold - with the hat (I don't know what the clothing is called)! We have some fireworks that we might light up if it's not raining (very small, sparklers - leftover from July 4th a year ago in which we forgot about - but we have to do it quietly as fireworks are illegal in our area). ANYWAY - that's our celebration!! Hope you have a great one!! Good luck in the year of the dragon!!
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
24 Jan 12
I am pleasantly surprised that over there people take a great interest in Chinese New Year.On the occasion of we celebrating our joyous festival, Your children made paper lanterns and fans and you gave them money as lunar New Year gift- we call it YASUIQIAN (transliteration) and the school also hung up "Happy New Year"sighs(Kung hay fat choy is cantonese), even some children wore Chinese ancient clothing.Judge by what you said,they are like skullcap resemble the rind of half a watermelon and mandarin jacket.Thank you for letting me know so much!
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thank you for your best wishes!I am grateful to you for celebrating our joyous festival together with us.As to the festive dinner which is mostly traditional foods ,we have to prepare some of them about ten days in advance . May you and your whole family be happy and healthy this year!
@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
24 Jan 12
I hope you have a wonderful New Years Eve and a Happy Lunar New Years Day. Sounds like you and your wife will be busy cooking up a wonderful dinner. Have a wonderful visit and time with your family.
@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
25 Jan 12
You are very welcome, sounds like a nice time for all.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
25 Jan 12
Thank you very much!The past two days,we paid New Years calls one another.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
22 Jan 12
Happy New Year! I want to wish you laughter and good heath in the coming year!
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thank you very much!I also wish you good health and good luck this year!
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
22 Jan 12
Hi changjiangzhibin
I wish you a great year my dear friend. I am quite happy to read that you would be helping your wife cook the festive dinner
because I too assist my wife in her work and I feel that this is one great way to show our love and affection to our partners who keep working hard for the family.
So what is the special thing(s) that you are planning or did today? And hey, I would also love to send some chocos for your loving daughter...
I wish you a great year my dear friend. I am quite happy to read that you would be helping your wife cook the festive dinner because I too assist my wife in her work and I feel that this is one great way to show our love and affection to our partners who keep working hard for the family.
So what is the special thing(s) that you are planning or did today? And hey, I would also love to send some chocos for your loving daughter... @changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thank you for your good wishes!I do know from the discussions which you have started before that your wife are very virtuous and you are an affectionate couple.How lucky you are!Today is the lunar New Year's Day when We start to pay a New year call.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 Jan 12
kung hay fat choy my friend, hope I pronounced or wrote it right, I hope you are all happy there cause I also have Chinese ancestry, I wish you all a happy lunar new year and I hope it brings good luck to all of us, I was born in the year of the pog or the boar
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
24 Jan 12
Thank you for your best wishes!However I am not sure if " kung hay fat choy"means Happy New Year,because it is Cantonese ,I usually speak common speech.What lets me pleasantly surprised is that you also have Chinese ancestry.I reckon you surely think of Chinese New Year as your own festival.May good luck be yours!
@fayeabigael (11)
• Philippines
22 Jan 12
Xin nian kuai le!
I also love Chinese new year cause of the festive foods, and I love to cook so my mom makes me in charge of cooking, and my most favorite part is when I receive ang pao's. hahaha
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thank you for your wishes!I learn that there are many chinese people there,at this time,they are certainly intoxicated with the spirit of the festival.
@youless (112561)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Jan 12
I am so glad to catch your discussion now. You are right, today is the Chinese New Year Eve and it is a very important festival for Chinese. In fact in these few days we went to the flower streets and this is the tradition in Guangzhou. It is quite interesting although it is also tiring for us to go to so many flower streets. Unfortunately the weather is not so good here. It is colder and rainy. But we all enjoy the festival anyway. I hope you will have a great Chinese New Year, too!
I love China
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Happy New Year! Guangzhou is noted for its flower streets. I once visited there when I was on a business trip,owing to reading writer Qin Mu 's "flower market".The day before yestoday,here we had a fall of snow but it was not all that heavy.Today it is fine.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thank you for your best wishes!I hope your farm becomes more and more flourishing.
@longbangod (1785)
• Philippines
22 Jan 12
Happy new year to you and your family. Here I am wishing you more fruitful and happy 2012. This year is another year of our quest to life, I hope and pray that every one of us would be able to stand against the test of time. A new year is another challenge, another phase of our existence. God bless us all!
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thanks a lot!hope that we are all happy and healthy in the coming year.
@myn3wlif3 (139)
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22 Jan 12
yes today is a chinese new year... i hope this year of water dragon will brings us good fortune and hoping to have a peaceful country..
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Hope that your wishes will come true!Thank you for response!
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
22 Jan 12
I wish you a great New Years Eve and Festival. You will celebrate for 3 days or longer? Would like to know what you are cooking for today.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
23 Jan 12
Thank you very much!The Spring Festival is statutory holiday and People who are at work have three day holiday.Our daily food is different from yours.We take stir-frying as main cooking.
@sephricel26 (4)
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22 Jan 12
Happy new year! good thing you'll going to spent your new year with your family. Hope you more love and happiness this new year! This is a good start of new year for me here in Mylot!
