Once again, HEY THERE TO ALL READERS! :D So today I will be touching on the holiday -- Chinese New Year a.k.a Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year falls on the 1st day of the 1st month of the Lunar calendar, thus marking a brand new year in the Lunar calendar. It is celebrated in many Asian countries by the Chinese population which includes Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia and many more. When I think of Lunar New Year, the first thing that would always appear in my mind would be the vibrant colours and display put up at Chinatown. There would be bright and warm colours like red, orange, yellow that represents liveliness and happiness. However, if I would have to narrow down to just one colour, it would be GOLD. Gold symbolises many things, like wealth, prosperity and good fortune. However, in my case, I think that gold represents happiness. Some of you may feel that gold refers to the Chinese gold ingots or money, but I feel that gold is a bright, shiny yellowish colour that it resembles the rays of a sun shinning onto the smiling faces of everyone! 😄
I would choose a horse as the symbol for Chinese New Year as it is the Year of the Horse this year. The horse symbolises freedom, strength and power. Therefore, I choose a horse to represent this year's Chinese New Year.
The first image that appears in my mind during Chinese New Year would be the reunion dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. On the eve of Chinese New Year, relatives and families will get together for a reunion dinner. A reunion dinner is feast where family members sit together to enjoy the dinner and to catch up with one another. In a more advance and technological world, extended family members rarely visit each other, therefore, a reunion dinner is a time where they sit down together to talk with each other face to face instead of through social medias and smartphones. A reunion dinner is also a time of family bonding, a happy and joyous event! Therefore, I choose a picture of a reunion dinner to be the image to represent Chinese New Year!
(This is the picture of the reunion dinner I had with my family on the eve of Chinese New Year ;D)
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