Happy Chap Goh Meh!
Chap Goh Meh or Tzap Goh Mei (十五暝; pinyin:shí wǔ wěi; lit. “fifteen night”) represents the fifteenth and final day of the Lunar New Year Chinese migrant communities. The term is from the Hokkien dialect and refers to the fifteenth day of the first month, which is the occasion of the first full moon of the New Year. period as celebrated by by Chinese migrant communities. The term is from the Hokkien dialect and refers to the fifteenth day of the first month, which is the occasion of the first full moon of the New Year.
The occasion is marked by feasting and various festivities, including the consumption of tangyuan. In traditional Chinese culture, it is also celebrated as the Lantern Festival or the Shang Yuan Festival. In Southeast Asia, however, it coincides with the Chinese Valentine’s Day.[1] It is also when young unmarried women gather to toss tangerines into the sea, in a hope that their future spouse will pick it up – a custom that originated in Penang, Malaysia. In the past, this was also the only day that unmarried ladies could be seen with their partners.
From wikipedia
So what are your plans for today? I’ll probably stay home, lookout for the moon and eat tangyuan (if my mom is making them, heh).
Any ladies tossing tangerines into the sea? XD
By the way, my image header matches my tagline, w00t?
And sorry for the more than a month absence, I was urm……I don’t know.
I managed to get a few fireworks shots while I was back in kampung, but this is the best shot I can get.
And during CNY house visitation to my YF advisor’s house, I saw this
lol
ps. This post is also another lame one, don’t tell me about it.
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Nice fireworks pic!! =D
The Picture Of Fireworks Is A Good Shot!
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great firework pic, boss!
Fireworks are great!
nice pic of you ~
Haha. I’ll be the sixth person to comment this… “Nice fireworks!” XD
Oh yeah,just to clarify, I thought the tangerines are tossed into the river? Thrown into the sea = sesat = fish food??? (if fish eat oranges, that is)
I was under the impression that the throwing of the mandarin oranges was into the river… and it (the orange) will float… *dub dud dub* and be picked up somewhere downriver, I presume, by eligible bachelors.. Or something like that… So the guy who picks up the orange is supposedly the soul mate of the gal or something, as Fate dictates- after all, he did pick up that orange from the hundreds in the rivers.
*geez. Were our ancestors that desperate?*
It was supposedly a ritual to find a suitable life partner… Coz’ apparently only single women will throw the oranges.
Enlighten me please?
PS- Maybe I should throw mandarin oranges next chap goh mei… kaka. just to see if this myth works =P keke. maybe I’m just desperate… lolz.