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Chinese New Year has been explained as the best of all our holidays, presents with everything red like Christmas, fireworks like Fourth of July, and the best foods all wrapped up into one. It usually is a month long festival that corresponds with the moon. This year it comes to a head on February 18th.
In Kuala Lampur, we visited a Chinese school where they were making the red posters to put on the wall of the homes and amazing drumming (the drumming is more typical of Malaysia).
In Bangkok, Chinatown was so packed that it was hard to move and the air was full of incense and flowers and fireworks. I went through the a walking street and it took a hour to walk 1/4 a mile and it was impossible for me to buy anything because people we just taking their biggest bill and throwing at the cashier.
In Chiang Mai, the wonderful family we are staying with has been eating delicious treats and we gave the kids red envelopes. And we visited a Lisu tribe who were feasting and dancing for five days and nights straight (you can see in the background the dancers (I got to join in on the circle dance which you do slowly because the dance has to go continuously for 5 days, you can see that some are wearing traditional dress -- bright colors and metal mesh that rings like bells -- and some wear modern dress. Unfortunately this was the best picture).
Fortune and Happiness for you this year,
Elaine
Chinese New Year has been explained as the best of all our holidays, presents with everything red like Christmas, fireworks like Fourth of July, and the best foods all wrapped up into one. It usually is a month long festival that corresponds with the moon. This year it comes to a head on February 18th.
In Kuala Lampur, we visited a Chinese school where they were making the red posters to put on the wall of the homes and amazing drumming (the drumming is more typical of Malaysia).
In Bangkok, Chinatown was so packed that it was hard to move and the air was full of incense and flowers and fireworks. I went through the a walking street and it took a hour to walk 1/4 a mile and it was impossible for me to buy anything because people we just taking their biggest bill and throwing at the cashier.
In Chiang Mai, the wonderful family we are staying with has been eating delicious treats and we gave the kids red envelopes. And we visited a Lisu tribe who were feasting and dancing for five days and nights straight (you can see in the background the dancers (I got to join in on the circle dance which you do slowly because the dance has to go continuously for 5 days, you can see that some are wearing traditional dress -- bright colors and metal mesh that rings like bells -- and some wear modern dress. Unfortunately this was the best picture).
Fortune and Happiness for you this year,
Elaine
4 comments:
Elaine, we were told by Andrew's aunt that it is the year of the Golden Pig. Apparently, it only comes every ~600 years. Any word of the Golden Pig there? We hope this is true for Lawrence. It is supposed to bring great luck and wealth!
Happy New Year, Elaine and Cam! I am delighted to be reading about your adventures. I check your blog every morning (it's so much more fun than writing my dissertation prospectus). It's like reading a real-life version of those imaginary travels we used to write years and years ago. How nice to see that real life can be as exciting as imagination! Anyway, I hope everyone is feeling better and is able to enjoy the new year celebrations--they sound amazing.
Happy New Year. your blog is wonderful. Every photo you post makes me want to go more.
be well.
I was born in the year of the pig! Celebrate for me!
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