We had a reasonable size of family to celebrate Chinese New Year at my house in Bintulu. The moment that I enjoyed the most during Chinese New Year always the new year's eve. The atmosphere of reunion is very warm and touchy. And of course, the foods are always amazing!!
Mixed Foods (Combination of different variety of foods)
Chinese Sausages (Bought this very early in the morning of new year's eve like 2am in the morning)
Salted Egg Prawns
Sugar Vinegar Pork
Chieves with Baby Corn
These are only some of the foods, there are at least another 6 dishes~
"The Mid-Autumn Festival (Simplified Chinese: 中秋节; Traditional Chinese: 中秋節; pinyin: zhōngqiūjié), also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival, similar in name to a different festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year).
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar).The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together.
Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:
Eating moon cakes outside under the moon *Putting pomelo rinds on one's head *Carrying brightly lit lanterns *Burning incense in reverence to *deities including Chang'e *Planting Mid-Autumn trees *Lighting lanterns on towers *Fire Dragon Dances "
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
By the way, this photo almost straight from the camera~~ should be my 1st photo with the least processing~only added the Chinese Characters and increase very little bit darkness~ hope you like it!!
P/S: To All My friends~~~ no matter what nationality you are... this lantern photograph is specially dedicate for you!!!
This is first time ever that i try to make rice dumpling for the festival, surprisingly they are all turned out very good!!! I feel myself sooooooooooooo talented !!
Here is the youtube clip that I learn how to fold them~ click HERE to have a look.
Happy Dragon Boat festival to my Chinese Friends and for those who are not celebrating it, please share the joy!!!Cheers!!!
"The three most widespread activities for the Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival are eating (and preparing) zongzi, an angular rice ball wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves; drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats.
The Duanwu Festival is a Chinese traditional and statutory holiday. It is a public holiday in mainland China and in Taiwan, where it is known as the "Duanwu Festival". It is also a public holiday in Hong Kong and Macau, where it is known as Duen Ng Festival. Its alternative name in English is "Dragon Boat Festival", after one of the traditional activities for the holiday..
The most well-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC - 278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu, in the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty. A descendant of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry, for which he is now remembered. Twenty-eight years later, Qin conquered the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. It is said that the local people, who admired him, threw food into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. This is said to be the origin of zongzi. The local people were also said to have paddled out on boats, either to scare the fish away or to retrieve his body. This is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing."
There is another story about the glutinious rice wrapped in bamboo which is not included in wikipedia. From my knowleage, the people who admired Qu Yuan,they threw foods into the river for him to eat. But the foods always being eaten by fishes and therefore, they came out with the idea wrapped the foods in the bamboo leaf in order to prevent it eaten by fishes. Read Full Entry 阅读全文>>>
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I have heard a lot of people buying expensive camera, lenses, filter etc to do photography. However, from my point of view, being a successful photographer, it is no necessary to have a real expensive equipment; the most expensive tool is actually your eyes – the eyes of beauty. Without the eyes of beauty, a photo that taken from million dollars camera also worth nothing.
I am a Adelaide,South Australia base amatuer photographer who like to do any kind of photography as long as it is interesting and beautiful in my eyes. I like to do photography because I joined flickr, one of the best photography website in the world. I never ever thought of it would be my favorite hobby someday in my life.
I have heard a lot of people buying expensive camera, lenses, filter etc to do photography. However, from my point of view, being a successful photographer, it is no necessary to have a real expensive equipment; the most expensive tool is actually your eyes – the eyes of beauty. Without the eyes of beauty, a photo that taken from million dollars camera also worth nothing.
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