Gong Hay Fat Choy! Chinese New Years ^-^

Category: Eleanor Roosevelt High School, NYC

Every year, in the end of January and the beginning of Feburary (usually near the middle), in Chinese culture, we have something called Chinese New Years. It's a day where we meet up our family and exchange, hung baos. (In chinese it means red envelopes) Usually it's full of money, sometimes it's candy/chocloate. So on that day you have to wear red for good luck and if you wear black or green, it's bad, because it means bad luck. For me, i usually visit my grandparents house, near mine and have breakfast with them, for good luck we each (my family and i) eat one egg and recieve our hong baos. Then for lunch and dinner we go over to my relatives house in Brooklyn. There i meet up with cousins, uncles, aunts and whoever shows up there. The grown ups (who are married) give us (the children) hong baos. (You have to be married to give hong baos and also if your married you rarely recieve them.) We say thank you and for the rest of the day keep receiving them and eating, snacks like reddened pitashcios, water melon seeds (also reddened) and other sweet snacks i dont know hwo to say/explain. Later that night when all my relatives gather at one house, we eat dinner. The food is of vast varieties, depending on what my uncle makes or what the other relatives bring. After that day, my family i go back to our home and one by one we open the hung baos and count our money, and happily enjoy the rest of the night.

PICTURE #1
Chinese New Years
by; graciepoo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graciepoo/93246211/
I CHOSE THIS PICTURE BECAYSE THESE ARE JUST A FEW FEATURES AND PICTURES OF HOW RED ENVELOPES LOOK LIKE AND THEY ARE USUALLY IN CHINESE SAYING THINGS LIKE, GOOD LUCK, GOOD HEALTH, GOOD WEALTH, etc.

PICTURE #2
Openning red envelopes
by; graciepoo
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I ALSO CHOSE THIS PICTURE BECAUSE WHEN YOU OPEN THE RED ENVELOPES YOU GET MONEY. IT SHOWS SOMEONE OPENNING A FEW RED ENVELOPES AND GETTING MONEY.