It has long passed the Chinese New Year. This Chinese New Year was the most unusual one I had because of the Novel Coronavirus. Most of the Celebration events were cancelled and we have to reduce gathering to avoid the spread of the virus.
Traditional Chinese New Year is an important Festival for generations of families to reunite and spend time together. So this year We got back to Grandmother’s home and visited the flower Market to celebrate this traditional festival.
Hong Kong Chinese New Year Flower Markets is one of the biggest events among all the Chinese New Year celebrations in Hong Kong. It usually starts one week before the 1st day of the Lunar Chinese New Year.
Lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion’s movements in a lion costume to bring good luck and fortune.
Thanks for sharing your story with everyone! Happy New Chinese Year! Most of all I wish everyone to be healthy and this new virus to disappear and I am sure it will!
It is good that you still managed to pay a visit to your closest ones and even enjoy the lion dance and more! I am curious to ask you if you have ever tried playing the lion dance? Is it something that every student learns in school in sport classes?
I am tagging @Velvel as I know she is also very much into celebrations of the Chinese New Year and will appreciate your post, 是不是？：）
Yes!! Hope the virus will be controlled and everyone will get well soon.
I tried to play as a dragon dance music team member when i was child. That was a lot of fun.
Learning Dragon dance and Lion dance are not very common in regular school class. There are some organisations specialize in that kind of training.
@MariaNgo Flower Market are very iconic in Hong Kong Chinese New Year. Everyone prepare decorations as well as gifts for families and friends. Different flower have different symbolic meanings in usher lucky.
@TonyChu That’s fascinating. Can’t say that flowers play any important role at all here in Melbourne that I know of. Mandarins are significant though. Do mandarins feature in Hong Kong?
Hello @TsekoV thank you for tagging me to this nice Chinese New Year post! It’s been 3 weeks since Chinese New Year, but we still could feel the vibes thanks to @TonyChu . 新年快乐！鼠年大吉
I also wish and pray the best that this epidemic will disappear very soon and everybody in the world could live a normal and peacefully life.
Are you and your family safe from everything, including the demonstration? How’s the situation there?
I also have some relatives living in HK (they are native). So grateful to hear that they are safe, living faraway from the demonstration area.
Hi @Velvel@so happy to meet someone can read Chinese on connect ,恭喜發財新年快樂~
Thanks for your caring. So far so good. Masks are getting very expensive. Everyone has to wear mask when go out. There are less demonstrations right now. And I’m not living close to demonstrations area. Glad to hearing your relatives are safe.
