THE LEGEND OF Chinese New Year

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Judith Khoo say hello to everyone !  ♥ ♥ ♥

Hello everyone ! (*´∀`)~♥

Happy Chinese New Year !Everyone is happy and meet with their long time no see friends. I'm also the one too !

So guys I am here to tell you guys something about THE LEGEND OF THE BEAST NAMED NIAN.

Actually it sounds interesting. I know this story since young. Maybe not a lot of people know this , that's why I want to share with you guys !

A long time ago , there was a terrifying monster called NIAN. At the end of every year , he would woke up to eat people.

The village would took the whole family to the mountain to hide from NIAN being eaten.

One year , before the event was to occur , an old man visited the village. The old man informed them.
" The beast is easily scared. He doesn't like the red colour , he also fears loud sounds and creatures. Tonight , spread red across the village. Hang red signs on the door , make loud sounds or noises with drums , music and fireworks. To protect your children , give them face masks and lanterns in order to protect them. "

The villagers did as the old man instructed.
The next day , the villagers played the drums and music , burnt the fireworks when NIAN came to the village. When NIAN heard the loud noises and saw the red colour , he was suffering and run away from the village.

From that day , on the day before NIAN was about to wake up , the villages will hang a lots ofred decoration in their house and filled the streets with music , loud drums and fireworks all the day long to scare off NIAN,

That's why it can be explained the streets full of bright red decoration , people are wearing red clothes.

There are two main reasons to celebrate Chinese New Year , which are to celebrate a year of hard works of people , have a good rest and relax with family and also to wish for a lucky and prosperous coming year.

Chinese people always believe that a good start to the year will lead to a lucky year. Chinese traditionally celebrated the start of a new year of farm work and wished for a good harvest. This has now evolved to celebrate the new start of a new business year and wishing for profits and success in various vocations.

Decorating Buildings and house , streets with lucky red item. ｡:.ﾟヽ(*´∀`)ﾉﾟ.:｡

RED is the main colour of Chinese New Year. We believe that the red colour will representative LUCKY meaning. Red lanterns hang on the street ; red couplets will paste on the doors , buildings are decorated with red NEW YEAR pictures depicting images of prosperity. Most of the activities is done before Chinese New Year.

Believed that wearing new clothes is a new starts and fresh hopes for the New Year. Everyone dresses well in New Year , as we know that , the red color means good luck , believed to reject all those kind of bad luck or fortune. Mostly we wear new red clothes with cheerful mood , cheer every people around us. Black may means mourning and death , that's why a lots of Chinese people thinks that this colour will not appropriate.

Chinese New Year also a time for family members gathering together , wherever they from , people will come home. The new year's eve dinner is called " REUNION DINNER " and we believed that it is the most important meal of the year.

We always sit around round tables and enjoy the food and time together. We will not talk about serious topic like " How about the work. " The topic will be quite serious and may spoil the good ambience.

This is not a traditional but most of the village will grilled chicken and grilled pork / ribs and spare ribs. One of my favorite grilled pork is from my grandfather with his awesome technical and skills and some amazing sauce.

I always use the grilled pork to cook soup , too delicious and rich flavor !

At my back yard .

Finger Licking Good ! ♡(*´∀｀*)人(*´∀｀*)♡

TANGYUAN , we eat at kalends day. Its shape and characteristics like round shape , which means reunion and being together. That's why they favored by Chinese during the New Year celebration. Lucky sayings for eating TANGYUAN.

FuChao style TangYuan.

Cook with ginger !


Cantonese style TangYuan.

Chinese New Year Lion Dance. This activity will be arranged during the festival.

Fortune Fruit - Fullness and Wealth. We eat tangerines , oranges and pomelos during the Chinese New Year. They are selected because their round shapes and golden in colour. Eating and displaying them is believed that to bring the good luck and fortune due to their pronunciation and their writing.

The Chinese for oranges is 橙 , which sounds the same as the character 成 , which means success.
The another tangerine Chinese character is 桔 , contains the character of 吉 , which means for luck.
For the pomelos , sounds 柚 , sounds like ' to have ' 有 , or ' 又 ' also.  

Giving Red Envelopes to Pass On the Best Wish.
Like the western festival Christmas , the people will exchanges the gifts during the festival. As for here , the most common gifts are red envelopes. The envelopes have money in , and it is given to children and those young who are still working plus not yet married.

The adult will be given by their employers.  Red envelopes are used in the hope of giving good luck as well as money to the receivers.

The significance of red packet is the red paper and not the money inside. The reason putting money in red envelopes is to bestow more happiness and blessings on the receivers !


Extra Special Culture
I think it's only EAST Malaysia has this kind of culture and it's only happen in East Malaysia too. We make cakes to serve other people who visit us during the Chinese New Year . We will also go to meet and visit another friends house that long time no see especially the people who study on board.

This time most of my cakes are bought from other people. Of course , we do our cake too !

My friend , her sister always very good in making cake and cookies ! I definitely visit her and try her new cakes in day one CNY ! Every cake has different taste.

When I go and visit any of my friend house , I always hunt for cake especially CHEESE CAKE. OMG , it's yummy and delicious ! The taste is thick man. (●´ω｀●)ゞ

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To be concluded , I have met a lot of old friends that after form 5. The most impressive is JingYeng , she is thin and fair ! When she stand in front of me , I am so shocked about her. She slims down and get fit successfully while I look at myself , I didn't achieve my target. (°ཀ°)

With Moh Siew Yieng , don't forget to send me the wedding invitation.

With my kindness driver EREN WONG ! She being my driver two days ! Thank you very much. Your driving skill is getting good ! (　ﾟ∀ﾟ) ﾉ♡

With Lam Ying Ying !

With Ivy Ling.

With my cutie cousin Yvonne !

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This is my 2017 target , I want wear a long dress that buy at few years ago. The dress is now lying at my wardrobe. Next year 2018 , I must wear it !

Happy thoughts attract happy thoughts , I kinda blessed this year. Fill yourself with positive thoughts and feelings, because where positivity exists, negativity cannot exist at the same time.

By the way , I wish you all Happy Chinese New Year and enjoy well !

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With Love ,

Judith Khoo