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Little new year. Little New Year, or Festival of the Kitchen God, is celebrated on the 24th day of the 12th month in the Chinese lunar calendar, marking the start of the new year celebration. It is believed that household deities report to the Jade Emperor, ruler of heaven and earth, during Little New Year. Sweet food offerings like sweet cakes ...
Reunion Dinner ( Chinese: 团圆饭) is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore 's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Chen Liping, Wang Yuqing, Chen Hanwei, Patricia Mok, Kym Ng, Alan Tern and Zhu Houren as the casts of the series. It made its debut on 6 January 2009 and ended on 3 February 2009.
Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names ), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of ...
The Chingay Parade is an annual street parade held in Malaysia and Singapore as part of the Chinese New Year festivities, usually in celebration of the birthdays of Chinese deities or in some cases with the procession of the Goddess of Mercy ( Guanyin ). [ 1] The name "Chingay" derives from Hokkien, conflating two words: chin-gē ( 真藝 ...
In Singapore, Chinese New Year is the only traditional Chinese public holiday, likewise with Malaysia. Each region has its own holidays on top of this condensed traditional Chinese set. Mainland China and Taiwan observe patriotic holidays, Hong Kong and Macau observe Christian holidays, and Malaysia and Singapore celebrate Malay and Indian ...
September 2009: In the House of Straw: Yeo Siew Hua: 13 Little Pictures: 8 September 2009: Autumn in March: Huang Yiliang: Red Group Film: $1 million: 10 September 2009: Blood Ties: Chai Yee Wei: Hot Cider Films, Oak3 Films, Singapore Film Commission: $261,001.87 13 October 2009: The Blue Mansion: Glen Goei: Tiger Tiger Pictures: $2.8 million ...
9 August. National Day. Celebrates the commemorate the nationhood and independence of Singapore. October/November. Deepavali. The Hindu holiday celebrates the return of Lord Rama to Ayodhya after defeating the demon king Ravana and vanquishing of the demon Naraka by Lord Krishna. 25 December. Christmas Day.
The Singapore Department of Statistics defines "Chinese" as a "race" or "ethnic group", in conjunction with "Malay, Indian and Others" under the CMIO model. [10] They consist of "persons of Chinese origin" such as the Hokkiens, Teochews, Hainanese, Cantonese, Hakka, Henghuas, Hokchias and Foochows, Shanghainese, Northern Chinese, etc." [11] Chinese Singaporeans are defined as the "Chinese ...