Chinatown Information 2016 - Celebrations

Traditions

  • Red Envelopes - a traditions that has been carried on for many years is the giving of money and presents in red envelops from older generations to the younger generations.
  • Holiday - around the time of the new year celebrations the Chinese culture will take time off of work and education similar to the way the British culture take time off around Christmas and new years.
  • Lantern Festival - on the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month, families will get together to watch fireworks display and release lanterns.



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The year of the Ram

This year the Chinese new year took place on the 19th of February and at this time the year of the Horse ended and it became the year of the Ram, some may call it the year of the Sheep or year of the Goat.

The Chinese culture believe that the personality of people born in a Ram year is that they are gentle and calm. People born in the year of the Ram will have strengths of being hardworking and persistent but they will have weaknesses of being timid, vain and indecisive.





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