Singapore is a multicultural lion city with more than 200 ethnic groups and a complex population. Most China people come from China, Fujian, Guangdong and other southern Guangdong. During the Chinese New Year, the custom is biased towards Guangdong and Hong Kong, and basically people buy a lot of food: yellow pears (a good sign of prosperity), raw fish caught by Cantonese people (shredded radish, sashimi, peanuts, etc. They are all combined, and the higher you catch, the better the coming year) and pork (for red). Finished? Pick it up? You can go to Sentosa to see a flower show, or watch a song and dance performance on the banks of the Singapore River, or just stroll around Orchard Road. Teacher Feng Yanfei, the chief consultant of studying abroad in Singapore, reminded the guests to go home for the New Year. They want to exchange two big oranges in red bags with their host family, and then take them away, which means exchanging blessings. Friends and relatives walking around symbolize that they have collected blessings from everyone. Married people should give red envelopes to unmarried people as a festive day. Red envelopes should be wrapped in red paper to symbolize good luck and make a fortune in the coming year.
360 () reminds overseas students in Singapore and friends who are going to study there that 65438+1October 23rd and 65438+1October 24th are the Spring Festival time in Singapore, and the Spring Festival has many similarities with China. The main activities are: welcoming the Spring Festival and praying at the temple; Hanging Spring Festival couplets, someone posted them upside down on their doorstep? Fu? Words or some auspicious conjunctions; Taoists send the kitchen god, prepare rich offerings to worship the kitchen god and pray for God's blessing; Sweet rice cake, a must for Singapore's New Year, has the meaning of rising year by year; Gifts, the younger generation should give the younger generation double gifts, and the elders are returning gifts; Reunion dinner, the family gets together and shares affection; Sacrifice to ancestors, manifested in food and flowers. Others in Singapore have another way to spend their own Spring Festival.
How to celebrate the New Year's Eve for children? In Singapore, children have the habit of observing their age, and they need to wait for their parents to go to bed the next morning after offering sacrifices to their ancestors, so that they can happily get their long-awaited share? Red envelopes? Then take this and follow your parents to pay a New Year call.
After the Spring Festival in Singapore, there will be a make-up parade. Song and dance parades around the world will dazzle you, and there are all-night street dances, which are very lively. The end is the Lantern Festival, which has certain special significance for couples.