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Little new year. Little New Year, or Festival of the Kitchen God, is celebrated on the 24th day of the 12th month in the Chinese lunar calendar, marking the start of the new year celebration. It is believed that household deities report to the Jade Emperor, ruler of heaven and earth, during Little New Year. Sweet food offerings like sweet cakes ...
Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names ), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of ...
Korean New Year. Hangul. 설날. Revised Romanization. Seollal. McCune–Reischauer. Sŏllal. Seollal ( Korean : 설날; RR : Seollal; MR : Sŏllal) is a Korean traditional festival and national holiday commemorating the first day of the lunisolar calendar. [ 1] It is one of the most important traditional holidays for ethnic Koreans, being ...
Ngee Ann City is a shopping and commercial centre located on Orchard Road, Singapore. The S$ 520 million building was officially opened on 21 September 1993 by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong . Ngee Ann City currently houses the High Commission of New Zealand, on the 15th floor of Tower A.
The SFCCA publishes a bimonthly magazine, Yuan (《原》), and sponsors publications on Chinese culture and history, such as A General History of the Chinese in Singapore (2015). [3] The Chinese Heritage Centre, a research centre based in Nanyang Technological University, was opened by the SFCCA in 1995. [4] In 2013, the SFCCA incorporated the ...
The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( SCCCI; traditional Chinese: 新加坡中華總商會; simplified Chinese: 新加坡中华总商会; pinyin: Xīnjīapō Zhōnghuá Zǒngshānghuì) is a business chamber located in Singapore. The chamber was originally created to protect and promote the commercial interests of the Chinese ...
The CCTV New Year's Gala is the most watched television program in the world, with one billion viewers in 2018. [5] As the Chinese New Year's Eve is a time when the family gathers, the typical situation involves a large 3-generation family gathered in front of their TV set while making dumplings for the first New Year's meal.
Chinese New Year is celebrated in some countries in East Asia, including China, and some in Southeast Asia, including Singapore. It is the first day of the traditional Chinese calendar, a lunar calendar that is corrected for the solar changes every three years (i.e. a lunisolar calendar).