Chinese New Year celebrations at the Thean Hou temple situated just 8 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur. Most celebrants at Chinese New Year wear red, which is a lucky color, and also refrain from reflecting on the past year and uttering unlucky words, as it is believed that the first day of the new year will determine your fortune in the months to come. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 14/02/2010.
CHINESE NEW YEAR 2010 CELEBRATION AT THEAN HOU TEMPLE KUALA LUMPUR.
This chinese temple is one of the big temple in kuala lumpur. This temple situated at jalan Syed putra, which 8 km from kuala lumpur city center.
This is one of the favourite place to visit and the attracted by the structure of the temple, which was build on the hill and sarrounded by solemn atmosphere.
Every day a lot tourist bus come to visit this spritual temple.
Every year, during the chinese new year festival , this temple decorated with " TANGLUNG'S ". The celebration coutinue with Lion Dance at the morning of the festival.
Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first moon of the year, which is considered to be a particularly auspicious day. Children are given ‘Ang Pow ’, lucky red envelopes full of money, and households exchange visits and gifts. Most celebrants at Chinese New Year wear red, which is a lucky color, and also refrain from reflecting on the past year and uttering unlucky words, as it is believed that the first day of the new year will determine your fortune in the months to come.
Chinese New Year continues with 15 days of celebration and auspicious days, including a day to welcome the god of wealth, a day to celebrate farming and produce, and days to celebrate friends and family. Friendships and family relationships are a very important part of Chinese New Year, and a great deal of food and dinner invitations are exchanged as part of this tradition. Numerous lucky foods are served throughout the Chinese New Year festival, and after all that rich dining, the 13th day of the festival is set aside for eating rice and bitter greens to cleanse the palate.
On the 15th day, the Chinese New Year celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival, which is traditionally held at night. During the Lantern Festival, hundreds of citizens flood the street with lanterns representing wealth, animals, historical figures, plants, and a variety of other things. The lanterns are paraded through towns and cities throughout China, Taiwan, and parts of the world with large Chinese communities. The Lantern Festival ends with a burst of fireworks to celebrate the upcoming year while celebrants eat special round dumpling to celebrate unity.
Malaysian Chinese religion refers to religious beliefs of Chinese origin as practiced by the sizable Chinese minority of Malaysia . These beliefs and practices are heavily influenced by the three faiths practiced by Chinese communities, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism
This year Chinese new year celebration on 14th feb 2010 ,and according to the Lunar calendar will be the Year of the Tiger.
































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Colourful images.
Colourful images.