Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, is the most important Chinese festival. Students in Hong Kong can have a two-week long holiday at the end of January or the beginning of February depended on the Chinese Calendar.
The atmosphere during Chinese New Year is joyful. People would say different kinds of greetings to each other such as “Gong Hei Fat Choy”, it means wishing you to be prosperous in the coming year. Children and teenagers will get red packets ( “red packet” is a monetary gift packed in a red envelope) from their parents and married adults. Everyone will visit their grandparents during Chinese New Year to meet their relatives. So it is a good chance for all the relatives gathering on these days. Some of us will even have to go back to Mainland China as our grandparents and relatives are not living in Hong Kong.
With the joyful atmosphere, the red packets received and the happy gatherings of our relatives and friends, Chinese New Year becomes one of the favorite festivals of Hong Kong Students!
Suet Kan
SKH Bishop Baker Secondary School
Red Packets
The new year festival looks like so much fun.
Yes. The picture shows the Chinese New Year Eve’s Market. This temporary market operates for 10 days before the Chinese New Year. They usually setup in Football courts of different regions.
People like to buy flowers, presents, balloons, household supplies and candies, etc. It is a tradition for HK people to visit these markets together with their family members.
If you will be in HK at that time, I sincerely invite you to have a nice shopping in the Chinese New Year Eve’s Market!
One of my friends celebrate this and it seems amazing. They get so much lucky money. I don’t celebrate but I would like to get some of the thousands of dollars she gets from it.
Hello it’s Kelly I have always seen Chinese New Years on T.V it always sounded really cool and it still does. I want to learn about more about there culture and Hong Kong.