Saturday, January 31, 2009

Celebrating Festivals

I celebrate Chinese New Year every year. As i am a Chinese, i celebrate Chinese New Year, to add more Chinese New Year is very important to all the Chinese!!! Usually my whole family gathers together for the reunion dinner. We eat foods that symbolise good wishes, happiness, prosperity and longevity. After dinner, we will sit down to chat, watch TV or play our favourite boardgames. Before my whole family get our reunion dinner; on the 1st day of Chinese New Year , we visit our relatives to strengthen the bonds of kinship. We also gets Hong Baos; red packets containing money that symbolise luck and wealth. We were also on our best behaviour as we believe that the way we behave on the 1st day will determine the rest of the year.
I know some others festivals e.g Hari Raya Puasa, Vesak Day and Deepavali. They were about the same as Chinese New Year, their religion will celebrate their festival, e.g Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year. How do they celebrate them??? It is the same.... Lets take Chinese, Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year because Chinese New Year was important to Chinese!!! Now you know.... every festival is almost the same!!! But maybe the food they eat, what they do in their festival is the NOT same as Chinese New Year!!! I think the celebration of the various festivals will help in strengthening racial harmony among the various race in Singapore. How??? When they will celebrating, they talk, they play and watch TV. When they do this they will surely strengthen the bonds.Well, I also do not know how to explain, I can only tell u this much.We can always strengthen our bonds by talking, playing and others. You can always pick me for an e.g!!! I always use talking to make friends!!! I can say one of them is Kai Wen.

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