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Ah, we're going to talk about Malaysia again. Seems like an unbiased opinion but who knows?
Malaysia, as the title stated, and as we all know, is a multicultural country. Whether you enjoy its intricate cuisine, culture or the diversity of things, we can all agree that its one of its kind in the world, a truly unique country on Earth. Speaking of cultures, we, of course, have to talk about the multitude of festivals there is to celebrate in Malaysia due to its cultures, and perhaps due to the recent Chinese New Year celebrations, Pn M decided to make a blog topic out of it. So here we are...
So many options to choose from, yet I could only choose one to talk about. So, I, being Chinese and all, despite being terrible in the Chinese language, am going to talk about Chinese New Year. Even though the name starts with a "Chinese", it is of course celebrated by everyone in Malaysia.
Every Chinese New Year has a new zodiac animal, and for this year, it is the pig. I won't go into the details whether its a water or fire or earth pig because I have no idea how that works at all since I don't put much effort into studying about mythology. Despite it being the year of the pig, celebrations still went well as the Malay community didn't really mind... Goes to show you how intricate and understanding of the various ethnicities in Malaysia are.
CNY this year... (sentence doesn't make any sense but whatever) officially started at 5th of February and ends at 19th of February. I can't really copy-paste Chinese words here because it turns the background white for some reason. Thanks blogger.
Moving on, we have the event that most people like, receiving red packets. There are some legends to these as well. One of them is that the money from red packets are given to kids so the kids can use the money given to bribe monsters that come. It is said that the shimmering glow of golden coins back then scared of any monsters that came by, and thus the tradition lived on... even though none of our money glows now.
Then there's the taboo part. We're not allowed to clean anything for the entire duration of CNY as it is said to be... for example, sweeping away your luck.
I think that's all to it for CNY. See ya in the next blog post.
Cheers,
Chua.
Ah, we're going to talk about Malaysia again. Seems like an unbiased opinion but who knows?
Malaysia, as the title stated, and as we all know, is a multicultural country. Whether you enjoy its intricate cuisine, culture or the diversity of things, we can all agree that its one of its kind in the world, a truly unique country on Earth. Speaking of cultures, we, of course, have to talk about the multitude of festivals there is to celebrate in Malaysia due to its cultures, and perhaps due to the recent Chinese New Year celebrations, Pn M decided to make a blog topic out of it. So here we are...
So many options to choose from, yet I could only choose one to talk about. So, I, being Chinese and all, despite being terrible in the Chinese language, am going to talk about Chinese New Year. Even though the name starts with a "Chinese", it is of course celebrated by everyone in Malaysia.
Every Chinese New Year has a new zodiac animal, and for this year, it is the pig. I won't go into the details whether its a water or fire or earth pig because I have no idea how that works at all since I don't put much effort into studying about mythology. Despite it being the year of the pig, celebrations still went well as the Malay community didn't really mind... Goes to show you how intricate and understanding of the various ethnicities in Malaysia are.
CNY this year... (sentence doesn't make any sense but whatever) officially started at 5th of February and ends at 19th of February. I can't really copy-paste Chinese words here because it turns the background white for some reason. Thanks blogger.
Moving on, we have the event that most people like, receiving red packets. There are some legends to these as well. One of them is that the money from red packets are given to kids so the kids can use the money given to bribe monsters that come. It is said that the shimmering glow of golden coins back then scared of any monsters that came by, and thus the tradition lived on... even though none of our money glows now.
Then there's the taboo part. We're not allowed to clean anything for the entire duration of CNY as it is said to be... for example, sweeping away your luck.
I think that's all to it for CNY. See ya in the next blog post.
Cheers,
Chua.
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