Any of you American-Asians give your relatives that traditional(ugh...)Happy New Year?

[SuperGroove]

Koreans have to bow in front of the older relatives and say, "Seh Bong(long o, you druggie you) Mahnie Pahdoosayo"



Stinks. I guess you do this every New Year. We don't celebrate the Chinese New Year anymore. Thank goodness. Can't take all this bowing.

 

[MrCraphead]

well, Chinese celebrate their chinese new year more enthusiastically, I guess, than the normal new year. The schools in Taiwan, etc, get about a whole month off from school. And as far as red packets go.....oh yeah baby. As far as I know, we don't do any bowing.....

 

[SuperGroove]

Lucky you.



/me unenthusiastically blows into noise maker.

 

[iconn]

yeah red packet envelopes with DA GREEN stuff inside BABEE!!! Better than xmas, MUHAHAHAHAHH!

 

[MrCraphead]

LOL!!! you got that right.

Plus, the more relatives you have.....the better.

 

[EmperorNero]

being the oldest son of the oldest son of my grandparents, I would have to make a little speech to everybody. now that i moved up to ohio, there's barely any of my family here so we don't bother celebrating chinese (why is it specifically called "chinese"? did they make it up?) new year.

 

[MrCraphead]

I'm willing to guess it's called Chinese new year b/c Chinese are the only ones who celebrate it at that time, and b/c it goes by their calender, which in turn goes by the moon.....I think.....perhaps I should do more research on my own culture.

*walks away with tail between legs*

 

[iconn]

"Chinese New Year" falls every year on a different date and sometimes different month. The Chinese New Years part is given credit to the Lunar calander, which is predominantly used in azn countries. FYI, TET is the viet name for this event, and nahh its not pronounce like T*t, muhahah.

 

[MrCraphead]

hehe, thanks iconn.

 

[Raspewtin]

Do Americans with origins from the Asian half of Russia, the Indian Subcontinent, and the new Turkish Republics count as Asian-Americans, or are you just talking about people with origins from the Pacific Rim when you say Asian?

 

[urbantechie]

Yep, Chinese/Vietnamese (Both me! ) base most of the calender on the moon. Deaths in the family and monks go by this calender. Did you know if some certain days are good to die on and some aren't?(days on the calender)

Anyhoo, the vietnamese greeting is like this (Bare with me I don't know how to read or write vietnamese )

Nam muh, gon gin chup ba co.......(and u wish them luck/rich/health blah blah)

 

[IBhacknU]

<< red packet envelopes with DA GREEN stuff inside >>

you guys get GRASS? Smoke On!

 

[EmperorNero]

<< Nam muh, gon gin chup ba co.......(and u wish them luck/rich/health blah blah) >>



and I thought my vietnamese is bad

 

[thelanx]

Chinese New Year is awesome!

 

[dawheat]

What are you talking about? Bowing as a kid was the best part of New Years. Yes we have to dress up and Sehbe to the relatives- but then each relative gives you cash- anywhere from $20-50 and the occasional 100 if someone is too drunk =).

Multiply this by 6 uncles and grandparents = happy day.

But now that I work and actually have nieces and nephews, it?s not quite as happy anymore now that I?m on the other end.

 

[dcdomain]

Dawheat, hehehe... the thing is, we don't have to bow and we still get the red envelopes!!! Kick butt!!! And I love walking through Chinatown later on in the week with my dad... just say hi to his all of his friends on the street and the red packages roll in, in addition to the red envelopes from relatives. But now that I'm in college, I only get red envelopes from close relatives through my siblings.

 

[shadowfaX]

hehe... not the traditional Happy New Year, but the good ol' Chinese New Year! All right! Gong Xi Faat Cai! (Gung Hei Faat Choi). Yes.... the red envelopes! well... mom and dad make me go to all the relatives and wish them Happy New Year in Chinese (during Chinese New Year). Sadly, though, as I get older, I get less money.

 

[CaseTragedy]

I use to get tons of money--but then I got a little brother.
I did not know that the amount of money given to families was a constant and not proportional to the number of kids.
Stupid brother. :|