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Narrative Essay About Chinese New Year

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My Chinese New Years It has been the common knowledge that Chinese New Year is related to the red colors. Therefore, the red clothes are usually worn in the Chinese New Year celebration. However, did you know that Chinese New Years celebration was forbidden to be celebrated in the public places in 1968-1999? It happened due to the President Soeharto’s governmental system. On the other hand, Chinese New Year which is the celebration of the Tionghoa ethnic, could be celebrated in the public places after the year of 2000 due to the President Abdurahman Wachid’s governmental system. That wise governmental rule had been the happiness for all Tionghoa families, especially my family. My family comes from the Tionghoa ethnic without any combinations from the other ethnics. Therefore, in order to actualize the Chinese tradition, the Chinese New Year would always be celebrated happily in my big family. As I know, during the Chinese New Year, most of the …show more content…

They would celebrate the Chinese New Year until the fifteenth night or what we call it as “cap go meh” in Hokkien language. My parents had ever explained to us that the fifteenth night of Chinese New Year would be celebrated in the beach for the Tionghoa ethnics in Medan. They would have their dinner with their family or their beloved ones. The rice cake would be the main food to celebrate this moment. Unlike the Tionghoa ethnics in Medan, we would celebrate nothing in Jakarta since we would have started our daily activities. Even though my mother would be very busy, she would also cook the rice cake by herself. She would sometimes share the food to our relatives, while giving the rice cake for our main family. My mother’s dishes are the best dishes for us. That would be the last celebration for our Chinese New Year

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