Apart from China, the Spring Festival in these countries is also booming.
Sydney: From the first day to the fifteenth day, every day is the taste of New Year.
Sydney Opera House
New year’s goodsYou may not believe it, but in Sydney, the Spring Festival is very strong. In Sydney’s Chinatown, there are all kinds of Chinese restaurants, pastry shops and handicraft shops. Whether it’s Spring Festival couplets, lanterns, Chinese knots, or traditional China cuisine, you can basically buy them, so don’t worry about the new year.
Red envelopes for lucky money
Old customsIn addition to the official Spring Festival series in Sydney, there are many activities in major Chinese areas. Since the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, various activities have been staged in Sydney. On New Year’s Eve, the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge will become the most beautiful red, followed by New Year’s Eve and grabbing red envelopes.
On New Year’s Day, you can listen to a free China concert brought by the Sydney Conservatory of Music and famous tenors. You can enjoy a difficult lion dance performance; During the Spring Festival, Sydney also invited some calligraphers to show off the charm of calligraphy. On the second day of New Year’s Day, there are special events in the Art Museum during the Spring Festival. On the fourth day of the first month, there is a red envelope distribution activity at the Sydney fish market. It’s time to start exercising your hand speed. On February 8, there was also an LED lion dance show at the Circular Pier. The China Cheongsam Show on February 9th can take you through time.
[New Year’s Eve]On New Year’s Eve, in order to tie in with the Spring Festival, many restaurants in Sydney have launched "New Year’s Eve". No matter western food or buffet, China elements are added to their menus. Families who don’t want to do it themselves at home can go to the restaurant to have a look.
Singapore: Preparing New Year’s Eve dinner at home is even more delicious.
Singapore Chinatown Plaza
[new year’s goods]】 In the Spring Festival, the legal holidays here are two days, that is, the first day and the second day. Chinatown in Singapore is called Chinatown. When the Chinese New Year is coming, there are many people selling New Year’s goods there. You can see Spring Festival couplets, lighting, desserts, preserved ducks and dried fruits.
Chinese knot with auspicious meaning
Old customsOn January 26th, in Chinatown Square, the lion dance competition has already started. There are more than 10 pairs of top lion dance teams, who show their talents on the plum blossom pile and try their best to compete for the plum blossom award. Next, at Xinqiao Road and Yudongxuan Street, local and overseas art groups will jointly perform, which is the highlight of the New Year every year. You can also see the lighting display for seven weeks in a row, which is very suitable for taking a concave photo.
People go shopping in Chinatown Square to buy new year’s goods.
At the Spring Festival party in Chinatown, you can see the atmosphere of Chinese New Year singing and dancing. At the New Year’s Eve party, you can also see new media artists interacting with the audience through Chinese New Year songs, short videos and games to welcome the arrival of the New Year. On the evening of February 17th, there will be a large-scale street performance famous in Asia, which will be staged in Chinatown on the weekend of Lantern Festival. Float parade and makeup parade will bring the New Year celebration to a more joyful situation. According to local people, fireworks can be set off at mbs on the night of the Spring Festival, and many people will go to see it.
New year lion dance custom
[New Year’s Eve]As for the New Year’s Eve dinner, many Chinese will want to eat it at home, buy food and cook for jiaozi. On the one hand, we respect China’s traditional customs; on the other hand, it is difficult to change our living habits for so many years. The whole family gathers together to cook and eat, which is more festive.
Vietnam: Chinese New Year is still a celebration.
New year’s goodsThere is not much difference between Vietnamese new year’s goods and Chinese’s new year’s goods. In addition to selling New Year’s pictures and oranges, there are all kinds of red envelopes and gold-lettered Spring Festival couplets on the street. For the families of the Yue nationality, there are three kinds of decorations during the Spring Festival: a bunch (or a big one) of budding peach blossoms, a bonsai of kumquat and a "five-fruit pot" filled with fruits of various species. It is said that these three things indicate good luck, peace and prosperity in the New Year.
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Old customsVietnamese people have the custom of standing up banners and eating zongzi on New Year’s Eve. They use a bamboo pole, trim the top bamboo leaves, and hang red banners and wind chimes on it. It is said that the noise made when the wind blows will scare away ghosts. With regard to zongzi, it is necessary to be round and square. The so-called round place is considered as a symbol of joy. Interestingly, this kind of zongzi is very big, usually weighing 2 to 2.5 kilograms.
On the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, every family should worship their ancestors, and at the same time, they should also worship the land, the kitchen god and the ancestors of the hundred artists. Generally, there are zongzi and braised fish as sacrifices. Children should pay New Year greetings to the adults and the elderly at home, and adults will give them lucky money.
Burn incense and worship during the New Year.
In addition, there are many recreational activities, such as singing and dancing, performing plays, dragon and lion dances, etc. However, there are many taboos on the first day of the lunar new year, such as not borrowing things, not collecting debts, not doing farm work and so on. If a family travels, they can choose to visit the New Year’s Fair, such as Guangbo Flower Market, Grapefruit Market and Xingjie Ma Antique Market.
A lively dragon and lion dance team in the street.
[New Year’s Eve]This year’s New Year’s Eve dinner is just eating out. It’s basically the same in recent years. Book a private room in a hotel, and then the family will be happy. Usually, everyone is very busy at work. When taking advantage of the New Year’s Eve dinner, exchange more feelings.
Malaysia: New Year’s Eve hot pot is booming.
New year’s goodsIn Malaysia, the Lunar New Year is a legal holiday for all citizens, and the annual flavor is very strong. Malaysia is a country with relatively complete preservation of Chinese culture in the world, and the celebration customs in cultural festivals have inherited the beauty of Chinese culture for 5,000 years. New Year’s cakes are cakes used by Malaysian Chinese in the New Year. They are essential for offering sacrifices to the gods in the New Year, almost equivalent to the symbol of the New Year, and are essential new year’s goods for the New Year. In addition, Malaysia’s Jiabi, shaped like an egg roll, was originally a traditional cake food of Malays, and later it was subtly integrated into Chinese families and became a necessary festive food for Chinese New Year.
【Old customs]Speaking of Malaysia’s distinctive Spring Festival activities, the first one is of course "fishing for a living". Fishing for fish is a popular New Year custom of Han nationality in Nanyang area, especially in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Colorful raw fish have colorful and brilliant intentions, and the name "fishing raw fish" also means "wind and water" and "fishing more and more prosperous"
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Under normal circumstances, local people will also eat potted vegetables, which are made of more than a dozen raw materials through more than a dozen cooking methods, such as frying, frying, burning and boiling. These specially treated potted vegetables are packed in a round basin, which represents round and round.
On the first day of the lunar new year, many relatives will have dinner together. If you are unmarried, you can get a red envelope from your elders.
On the Lantern Festival, people will throw oranges to find a good match. This is the custom of Fujian beauty looking for a husband. Now it has evolved into a New Year’s festival for all people to entertain. On the Lantern Festival, people throw fruits at the sea and lakes, while women throw oranges and men throw bananas for people who are destined to salvage.
Hotpot New Year’s Eve dinner
[New Year’s Eve]In Malaysia, it is a trend to eat hot pot on New Year’s Eve. Putting a burning stove under the table means a prosperous family and a reunion. Put money by the fire and hope everything goes well. The family sat around eating steaming hot pot, expecting a prosperous new year.
If you spend the Spring Festival in Southeast Asian countries, you can talk about your Spring Festival customs, New Year’s Eve dinner and delicious new year’s goods ~