HAPPY CHAP GOH MEH 24-02-2013
YUANXIAO FESTIVAL ON 24-3-2013.
Chap Goh Meh Festival also known as the Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival in China.
'Chap Goh Meh' is a Hokkien dialect which means 'Fifteenth Night' is a significant celebration in Malaysia. Over the past years, various activities would be put up to celebrate this auspicious day including sumptous feasting, culture shows, lion dance, dragon dance, lantern lighting and the highlight of the night - tangerines tossing.
Tangerines or Mandarin oranges toss is a traditional culture popularized by South East Asia Chinese as a means for a single lady to find for her life partner. In the past several decades, the maidens would ride along coastal roads to toss the oranges into the sea with the wish to find a good spouse.
Chap Goh Meh Festival was also the only night of the year that the unmarried women were allowed to meet up or went on a date with their sweethearts.So this festival is also regarded as the Chinese version of St. Valentine's Day, a day celebrating love and affection between lovers in Chinese tradition and culture.
Happy Chap Goh Meh Festival !
From Dickson Niew And Family !
Chap Goh Meh Festival also known as the Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival in China.
'Chap Goh Meh' is a Hokkien dialect which means 'Fifteenth Night' is a significant celebration in Malaysia. Over the past years, various activities would be put up to celebrate this auspicious day including sumptous feasting, culture shows, lion dance, dragon dance, lantern lighting and the highlight of the night - tangerines tossing.
Tangerines or Mandarin oranges toss is a traditional culture popularized by South East Asia Chinese as a means for a single lady to find for her life partner. In the past several decades, the maidens would ride along coastal roads to toss the oranges into the sea with the wish to find a good spouse.
Chap Goh Meh Festival was also the only night of the year that the unmarried women were allowed to meet up or went on a date with their sweethearts.So this festival is also regarded as the Chinese version of St. Valentine's Day, a day celebrating love and affection between lovers in Chinese tradition and culture.
Happy Chap Goh Meh Festival !
From Dickson Niew And Family !
Hi Mr Dickson,
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