Happy New Lunar Year!

[Traminer]

Lunar New Year 2020: What are the traditions, and which Asian cultures celebrate it?

Lunar New Year falls on Jan. 25 this year, prompting more than 1.5 billion people around the world to celebrate with family and traditional foods.

While the customs vary between Asian cultures, the holiday marks the beginning of a new year on the second new moon after the winter solstice.

People of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean descent — to name a few — often give children money and honor ancestors during the festivities of different lengths. In China, the Spring Festival lasts up to 15 days, while Vietnam's Tết Nguyên Đán goes for up to a week. Lunar New Year in South Korea, known as Seollal, runs for three days.

More about it: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...ditions-chinese-vietnamese-korean/4527349002/

 

[SnaH]

I, as a Korean, cook traditional banquet and shared with family members. Thanks for your celebration, but this new year holiday was so depressed because of corina virus in this area T.T.

 

[Traminer]

Again a new Lunar Year has started!

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For Chinese, in China and in ethnic communities around the world, the lunar new year is the most important and most festive holiday of the year. Through centuries of China’s agrarian tradition, this was the one period when farmers could rest from their work in the fields. Family members from near and far would travel to be with loved ones in time to usher out the old year and welcome in the new, with great celebratory flourish.

The Lunar New Year: Rituals and Legends | Asia for Educators | Columbia University

 

[Traminer]

the year of the Dragon has started!