Happy Chinese New Year !

China
January 30, 2022 4:36am CST
Tomorrow is Chinese Lunar New Year's eve, due to the covid-19 pandemic,people cannot celebrate the New Year as they used to. Instead, we celebrate the new year by sending electronic red envelopes and videos of New Year's wishes in Wechat group, Weibo and verious social network service. My mother have made dumplings and many Kouwan(steamed meat and vegetables in bowls) for new years holiday. Happy Chinese New Year 2022! 2022 Xinnián kuàilè!
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• Nairobi, Kenya
30 Jan 22
That photo is good. It gives me appetite just by looking. What is the name of the calendar you use? Happy new year. Enjoy the dumplings when you finally eat it
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• Nairobi, Kenya
30 Jan 22
@garfieldlee Thanks for giving detailed explanation. I now understand. It's my first time to hear about Chinese lunar calendar. Our new year is always January first
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• China
30 Jan 22
steamed pork, beef, chicken, fish,hairtail, Tofu, Chinese cabbage,lotus root,mustard greens and so on.
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• China
30 Jan 22
Chinese Lunar Calendar In the calendar, one year is divided into 12 months and the months have either 29 or 30 days, always beginning on days of astronomical new moons. So each year has 354 or 355 days. To make the average length of the years equal to a tropical year, an intercalary month is added every two or three years. As a result, an ordinary year has 12 months while a leap year has 13 months. And an ordinary year has 354, or 355 days, and a leap year has 384 or 385 days.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
8 Feb 22
Electronic red envelopes sound cool. Are they like the digital version of ampao?
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
10 Feb 22
@garfieldlee that’s so cool. And the money?
• China
10 Feb 22
@sol_cee 1.Open the social network app, 2. Customize the cover of electronic red packet 3. Put money into the red packet from your bank card or electronic wallet 4. send red packet to friends or group
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• China
10 Feb 22
Yes and now you can customize the cover of electronic red envelopes
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
30 Jan 22
Happy Chinese New Year to you. I so love dumplings but I don't know how to make them. I always buy them
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
7 Feb 22
@garfieldlee Same here. I can't make them. I tried too but was unsuccessful
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• China
1 Feb 22
Thank you!I can make dumplings but I'm really not good at making dumpling skin, It's too difficult for me.
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• China
10 Feb 22
@Nawsheen I heard there were many Chinese live in your country, so you can buy them easily. I read a news several years ago that our foreign minister made dumplngs in Mauritius' China Embassy
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
30 Jan 22
Happy Chinese lunar New year to you too! I hope the year of the Tiger would be a better year for all of us and the pandemic would be gone. Im curious about the food, are you from Northern or Southern China?
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
30 Jan 22
@garfieldlee I understand, I have a couple of friends in Xi'an, right the diet is slightly different from the Southern Chinese that we are very familiar with, perhaps because of the cold climate, more noodles instead of rice, my friends are also fond of mutton which is not common in the South
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• China
31 Jan 22
@louievill Yes, Northern Chinese like mutton very much, we need high energy food to withstand cold weather in winter. Steamed mutton and stewed noodles are very popular here. Just like German marinated pork and Russian sausage
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• China
30 Jan 22
I'm from Northern China, the traditional holiday food are a little different from Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan.
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@Shavkat (139933)
• Philippines
30 Jan 22
It is a good thing that Chinese people can celebrate two New Years.
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@Shavkat (139933)
• Philippines
2 Feb 22
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• China
30 Jan 22
Yes, you are right. From cultural shock to cultural integration
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• United States
30 Jan 22
I wish a very happy New Year to you and yours.
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• China
30 Jan 22
Thank you! If you are close to any China Town in United States, it is the best time to visit it.
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• United States
30 Jan 22
@garfieldlee There is the Seattle Chinatown in the international district. It's a large section with many restaurants and shops. I would like to visit but I don't like going to Seattle unless I have to. I will share a toast and good wishes from my home. I hope you have a great time there
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• China
30 Jan 22
@Vikingswest1 Great ! There are plenty of Chinese live in Vancouver and Seattle
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@kixsh101 (2105)
• Philippines
30 Jan 22
Happy New Year! Those food looks yummy. Is that Chinese Cuisine?
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• China
1 Feb 22
Yes. Northern China Cuisine,local traditional food
@RebeccasFarm (89882)
• Arvada, Colorado
25 Apr 22
Of course this is a while ago but I hope you had a nice time.
@just4him (317041)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Mar 22
I hope you have a wonderful new year.
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@Kandae11 (55010)
30 Jan 22
Happy Chinese New Year. I must say those dishes look very appetizing.
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• China
31 Jan 22
These dishes are local traditional holiday food, you would not seen them in southern China and foreign Chinese restaurants
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@Rashnag (30592)
• Surat, India
30 Jan 22
Happy Chinese New Year to you and your family dear. Yes due to pandemic, every occasions are cancelled everywhere. Thankfully with new technology, we can be in touch with our friends, relatives and families
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• China
1 Feb 22
Yes, I agree with you. Video calls and Electronic red bags are much more popular than before during the pandemic.
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@soymex (1097)
• Glasgow, Scotland
30 Jan 22
ou made a lot of food! Looks like a big party is announced! Happy birthday and a happy new year!
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• China
1 Feb 22
Thank you! This week is the public holiday, supermarket and grocery are all closed, we have to prepare enough food to entertain guests, so the pic only showed a small portion of food we had made.
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@kimokono (64)
• Egypt
30 Jan 22
Happy Chinese New Year
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• China
30 Jan 22
Thank you my friends!
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• Indonesia
30 Jan 22
Happy Chinese New Year 2022 May you and your family enjoy health, wealth and happiness in the new year ^^
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• China
30 Jan 22
Thank you for your wishes and blessings!
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