Last week I spent 5 days in my friend Jia Jin's hometown. There we celebrated the Lunar New Year with all her family. We ate many foods that are a specialty for New Years, like steamboat for the reunion dinner, and dumplings. Also there were fireworks every night. This is a very important celebration for the Chinese and is celebrated all around the world. Here in Malaysia there are many customs, like eating steamboat for the reunion dinner, firecrackers, giving mandarin oranges to family and friends, and giving red envelopes with money. Also, Buddhists will go and pray in the temple on the first day of the New Year.
For Jia Jin's family, this is the one time of the year were all the family gets together and can enjoy each other's presence, so every night the children and adults will stay up very late playing cards or watching movies because it not every day where they can be together. This is true for many families as well, not just Jia Jin's.
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| Yummy homemade dumplings |
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| The women making dumplings |
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| Chinese lanterns |
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| Chair in a Buddhist temple. When sitting on it, your body becomes possessed with a god, or so I was told |
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| Yay! I got lots of red envelopes |
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| The most adorable little girl in traditional Chinese clothes |
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| I love these little girls <3 |
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| Praying on New Year's Eve |
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| Praying in the temple on New Years day |
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| A cool looking guy in the temple |
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