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These questions are from [livejournal.com profile] thefridayfive

1) What spring holiday(s) do you celebrate?
I suppose the Chinese New Year is supposed to be a spring holiday? Though on the western calendar spring seems to start sometime around or near Easter? So are my Chinese New Years considered spring holidays? I suppose I'll consider that a yes.

2) How do you celebrate it?
There's a lot of food and visiting people involved. I mean, if you follow the proper tradition, you have to go visit people at their homes, but as we are not proper Chinese we don't really follow that part of the custom. And when you meet people you have greet them with auspicious greetings like "prosperity and good health!" And whatnot.

3) How was your celebration different in 2020 and/or 2021?
Well, it wasn't much different. I've already mentioned that we never did do the "go visit people at their homes" thing, so when in 2020 the COVID fiasco just started, while other people were complaining about can't go home and visit family, we weren't much affected.

4) What special foods do you make or acquire for your spring holiday?
There's loads of candies and snacks and a vegetarian dish. There's also a lot of food/kitchen waste because in Cantonese there is a saying 年年有餘 which is means "may there be leftovers". The auspicious connotation to that is, you have so much that you have want for nothing, you have a lot of surplus. So that's why in many Chinese banquet dinners they serve you so much that there's always leftovers.

5) Is there special music for your spring holiday?
Oh boy there is, and it's always with annoying cymbals and sharp tones and squeaky voices. Here, have a listen, LOL

Date: 2021-03-28 01:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deepseasiren.livejournal.com
I've watched videos of Chinese New Year on YouTube and have been to Chinatown celebrations in San Francisco.

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