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After reading all the article and the post I wrote about Chinese New Year, now is time for me to share what I have done and celebrate when Chinese New Year 2011. When before Chinese New Year, I will decorate my house with the sticker and lighting. Is time to Chinese New Year Eve, family will have reunion steamboat dinner as before or previous year. We will ate and gathering with each others then after will prepare to pray for the new year to get good fortune at the following day. After 12am and reach Chinese New Year, I will start pray and hear many fire crackers around the island. Many children would not sleep on this day include me because we believe that did not sleep at Chinese New Year eve will bring parent stay longevity. I will go around Penang temple to pray for been good health and good fortune in the whole year. When reach the first day of Chinese New Year, I will follow parent to relative house and neighbour house for greeting and the most important thing is to take Red P

Last day of the Chinese New Year is the 15th day in the Lunar Calendar. This day is also known as "Oriental Valentine's Day". In China, they will celebrate their Valentine day in today. This day is the Full Moon of the first month and all will celebrate for it. Everyone will play along, see the moon, eat, play riddles, play firecrackers and others. At this day, those who have couple will dating and for those who are still single, they will go seaside to throw orange. Girl will write their name and telephone number above the orange and throw to the sea. Besides that at the sea there will have many guys who sit at the boat to fishing up the orange so that they will contact each others that time. Bubur Chacha Besides that this day also known as "Chap Gor Meh" in Hock Kien and is celebrate and also mark of ending of the Chinese New Year. Some of the foods in "Chap Gor Meh" is bubur chacha, dumpling because it will bring happiness for us. Women th

As I mention before, everyday of Chinese New Year have different festival to celebrate. In the 9th day of Chinese New Year, many will pray the sky god or "Pai Ti Kong". In Chinese we have different people such as Cantonese, Hockkien, TeoChew, Hakka and others. In the day, Hockkien people will celebrate it because this is their New Year include me because i'm also Hock Kien people. From the history during the Ming Dynasty, the Southern part of Hock Kien or "FuJian" province was plagued with the Japanese pirate, it is happen in the day before so the Hock Kien folks had to escape the onslaught of these pirates and rain to the deep mountains. They were protected from the attack under the shelter of think bushes of wild sugar-cane plants. When the Japanese pirates had retreated, the folks come out from sugar-cane bushes and that day is 9th of the Chinese New Year so they call this day as birthday of Ti Kong an it was celebrate by Hock Kien people. It is because the