{"id":176,"date":"2007-02-19T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aslinchoi.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2007-02-19T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T00:03:16","slug":"kung-hay-fat-choy-year-of-the-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aslinchoi.com\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Kung Hay Fat Choy – Year of the Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kung Hay Fat Choy Muoi! Happy Chinese New Year Baby! It’s the year of the pig now. This year, all those who love you wish you happiness and joy! We wish you good health. May you grow strong and beautiful. May you learn to walk and count to 10 \ud83d\ude09 May you be rich in life and successful in all you endeavors.<\/p>\n

Typically on New Years Eve, family gathers together for a New Year’s Eve dinner, where we all eat a huge meal and where there is a surplus with left-overs, which is save overnight, so as the Chinese phrase \u00e5\u00b9\u00b4\u00e5\u00b9\u00b4\u00e6\u0153\u2030\u00e9\u00a4\u02dc (ni\u00c3\u00a1n ni\u00c3\u00a1n y\u00c7\u2019u y\u00c3\u00ba), which means “may there be surpluses every year”, sounds the same as “may there be fish every year.” (source: Wikipedia and a distant memory as a kid with Yeh-yeh and Ma-ma.) <\/p>\n

So since we could have dinner with Yeh-yeh and Ma-ma and the rest of the family on New Year’s Eve, we planned ahead and had it the weekend before at Happy House Restaurant in Artesia, CA, with #5 Ee-Po Linda and Grand Uncle Lion (Larry) joining Yeh-yeh, Ma-ma, Uncle Matt, Auntie Lyly, Cayden, Kaiya and us. The food was yummy as usual.<\/p>\n

On February 18, 2007, New Years Day, most of the family, Grand Uncles, Grand Aunties, Uncles, Aunties, Counsins, Grandparents and all, gathered all together to wish each other Kung Hay Fat Choy, wish each other good luck in the coming year. The children paid respect to their parents and elders, pouring tea for them, wishing the good health and good fortune, as the elders gave the younger generation, lai-cee, red envelopes, lucky money, for good luck and good fortune in the new year.<\/p>\n

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