Happy Chinese New Year! :D

Not everyone here might be Asian, but I just wanted to say: Happy Chinese New Year! :smiley:
You may also use this thread to share Chinese Zodiacs. Do you like your animal?

Yes, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone here on the board who celebrates it! :smiley:

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Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :smiley: I happened to go to a Chinese restaurant the other night, where they were celebrating and because of this, they gave us lots of free food. Always a good thing. :laughing:

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! :smiley:

Omg, I laughed so hard when I found out what my animal was on the zodiacā€¦ the monkey!! :laughing: The reason why itā€™s so funny is because for a long time, me and my sister had this joke of calling Linguini a monkey, and I am so much like Linguini, itā€™s not even funny. :unamused: Plus, monkeys are my favorite animals after cats. <3

And no, I am not Asian, but I will celebrate with those who are!

lizardgirl: free Chinese?! yummm!!! :smiley:

Iā€™m a dog.

Happy Chinese New Year to all of our Chinese users (if we have anyā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue:)!

Iā€™m a dragonā€¦AWESOME. Top of the food chain, baby! :sunglasses:

I believe Iā€™m a horse. Some Chinese food would be delicious right about now, but Iā€™m kinda stranded at college Would some ramen suffice? Yeah, I guess not. Wrong country. :laughing:

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!

Gong Hei Fat Choi! (<-- I hope thatā€™s correct) or Happy Chinese New Year!

I was born in the year of the rooster. :slight_smile:

Happy Chinese New Year you guys! So, itā€™s the year of the Ox.
Iā€™m a rooster by the way (just like CoCo!)

Gong Hey Fa Choy to everyone! I am half chinese, and I am a snake. Chinese food = good.

Happy CNY! My family had a steamboat dinner (we prepared and ate it at home) on CNY eve, and I got to stay up late as a traditional gesture (or rather, an excuse, heheh) by the children for their parents to have a long and prosperous life.

After receiving my hongbao (a red packet given to unwed people containing cold hard cash :smiley:) we paid a visit to Chinatown on New Yearā€™s day. It was deserted, since most people are probably wasted or have gone back to their hometowns, so we took a couple of photos and watched a Lion Dance (guys dress up in a Lion costume, and dance to welcome the New Year) at a hotel.

Pretty awesome afternoon. We stayed in for the rest of the day. :smiley:

Iā€™m a Snake. Yeah, which means I should be intelligent, gifted with words and charming. But I also am supposedly neurotic, critical, and once burned, will seek revenge. Oohā€¦ nasty. :wink:

But I like snakes. I think theyā€™re misunderstood, like cockroaches and rats and lizards (and that was before I watched Wall-E, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc. respectively by the way).

Happy Chinese New Year! :smiley:

Iā€™m a monkey, I guessā€¦

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! :smiley:

Itā€™s now the Year of the Ox, which is my animal, which I think is good luck for me. Oxen are meant to be stable, stubborn, and hard-working. I was taught how to say ā€˜Happy New Yearā€™ in Chinese recently, but couldnā€™t get my tongue around it, heheh. One of these years I really should head down to the Chinatown in my city to celebrate it.

thedriveintheatre - You got moolah to celebrate the NY? Thatā€™s a pretty sweet tradition right there. :wink:

Wishing people who may celebrate it a prosperous and lucky new year! This is actually one of my years. I was born in the year of the Ox.

Rachel - It sure is! <img src=ā€œ{SMILIES_PATH}/grinandwink.gifā€ alt=ā€œ;-Dā€ title="Grin and

Wink" /> I got enough dough to make a dozen Chinese dumplings!


[size=85]A reenactment of TDIT 20 years ago, when hongbaos were half his height.[/size]

Thought Iā€™d resurrect an old Bright-Dot-Dasher thread from Archives to discuss one of the biggest festivals in the world (and the biggest annual migration of people to their hometowns). If you guys havenā€™t guessed it, Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year) is around the corner! :smiley:

This is one of my favourite times of the year next to Christmas because back when I was a kid, the family would take a road trip to my parentsā€™ hometown in Penang and visit our grandparents. We would have a big reunion dinner, weā€™d go around visiting friends and relatives, and weā€™d get the much-coveted hongbao.

Whatā€™s a hongbao, you ask? It literally means ā€œred packetā€, and it is a red sleeve of money given by married friends and relatives to kids and unmarried adults. Naturally, this is the most fun part of Chinese New Year my siblings and I would look forward to, although our mum would take our money and put it in the bank anyway. :frowning: But weā€™d get the opportunity to buy new clothes, see long-forgotten cousins and uncles and aunties and family friends, and generally have a good time.

Now that Iā€™m a bit older, Iā€™d probably be pressured to find a girlfriend and get hooked up so that I donā€™t keep mooching hongbaos from my folks! :stuck_out_tongue:

Do any of you celebrate CNY? If you donā€™t what was your experience of it? Have you seen the lion dances, or attended a reunion dinner and toss lo hei (thatā€™s a fish salad which is meant to symbolise prosperity and longevity)? Do you have Asian friends who celebrate this tradition?

Also, 2013 is a very meaningful year for me, because I was born in the Year of the Snake, and the snake is the Zodiac animal this year again (you can probably guess my age too). The last time I celebrated my Zodiac year was in Indonesia, and I remember taking a picture next to this giant snake decoration at our local diner.

What is your Zodiac year? You can also discuss it in this mentalguru post. :slight_smile:

Only two more days to CNY! :mrgreen:

For those who celebrate, Gong he xin xi - Gong xi fa cai! Whether youā€™re at home or abroad, make sure you take it easy!

č›‡å¹“å¤§å‰! (I speak not a single word of Chineseā€¦ so, uhm, if I got this totally all wrongā€¦ sorry.)

Donā€™t worry Phileas, I can only speak and read ā€œbaby levelā€ Chinese. So I canā€™t tell if you got it wrong either! :wink:

but Iā€™m kinda stranded at college Would some ramen suffice? Yeah, I guess not. Wrong country. :laughing: