Happy Chap Goh Meh

Chap goh meh peranakan pengat.

Happy chap goh meh. Chap goh meh festival in indonesia malaysia and singapore. My family i would like to wish happy chap goh meh to all manivannan about lantern festival chap goh meh the lantern festival also known as the yuanxiao festival or shangyuan festival in china. As early as the western han dynasty 206 bce ce 25 it had become a festival with great. Chap goh mei is not an official public holiday in malaysia.

Yuen siu festival in hong kong and tết thượng nguyên or tết nguyên tiêu in vietnam. For this year lunar new year 2109 falls on 5th of february of gregorian calendar. Is a festival celebrated on. It is known by many as the chinese version of valentines day.

Instead it is simply a very popular festive date marked by many of chinese descent. Chap goh mei itself means the 15 th night of chinese new year in hokkien which also marks the end of the chinese new year celebration. Happy lunar new year or chinese new year 2019 to all travelers around the world. The peranakan chinese in the tradition of babas and nyonyas mark this night with an ancestral prayer.

Families traditionally mark the festival with dinner reunions and counting their blessings. The story does have a rather happy ending though as his wife was a wealthy woman. Happy chap goh meh 恭祝大家元宵节快乐. It is celebrated with prayers and offerings to mark the end of the chinese new year.

Today is the full moon of the first lunar month and thus marks the ending of the 15 day lunar new year celebrations. In malaysia this festival is popularly known as chap goh meh literally the fifteenth night in the local hokkien dialect and is a significant day for the chinese community. Pengat is a traditional sweet dessert that is traditionally made and served on chap goh meh.