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relatives of different households during Chinese New Year. Gifts are usually brought when visiting friends or relatives at their homes. Common gifts include
fruits typically oranges, and never pears, cakes, biscuits, chocolates, candies, or some other small gifts For persons who have not married should not give the
lucky money to anybody except money only. They also must not saying dirty words or be angered by anyone. The
reasons why must do not these things will be discussed in Chapter Three.
2.5 After Imlek New Year
Rarely shop is open on the third day. On the fifth day, a ceremony is held to welcome all of the deities who have returned from the Heaven. It is said that at
the day all of the deities return to check up the situation after the New Year. Very early in the morning of the sixth day, all of the deities, a sort of
vicarious exercise to ensure that no exactly disposed fairy Gogmother is omitted. Business is resumed in the shop on the sixth day. This old custom is not so
rigorously adhered to in modern times and most shops does not stay for the full period of five days, though some of the prosperous business can afford the
holiday. After twelve o’clock in the night. It is said that a long time ago, there was a war in the Hokkianese’s village. They hid in a place which has sugarcane’s
treesand they prayed to the god for stopping the war. In the 9
th
of first moon the war was stopped, so they worship the sacrifice. By the other Chinese tribes, it is
said that on the 8
th
night of the first moon or the 9
th
morning is he Hokkianese’s New Year. However, the other tribes also worship the God but they do that on the
morning of the ninth day and most of them do not use the sugarcane as sacrifice.
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On the tenth is known as the birthday of the Earth God are five brothers and in every person in a household deities who takes care of every person in
house. It is know that the Earth God are five brothers and in every 10
th
date from the first moon till fifth moon is their birthday. The eggs and a kind of noodle
named “Mie Sua” is part of the sacrifice. The official holiday ends on the fifteenth. Everybody will worship the
deities and the ancestor for begging the luck. The night to welcome the first full moon in the year is so crowded with people. West Borneo Chinese cultural
experts, Fat Lie Sau says, every feast of Chinese citizens, religious or cultural traditions exist origins as told from mouth to mouth, legends, based on the book
with a variety of versions, depending on the culture, traditions and regions, respectively.
According to the man born in 1932, Cap Go Meh has two versions. The first version is Yuan Shiau Ciek is one of the festivals that are celebrated since Xie
Han Dynasty 206 -24 to mark the end of the Imlek New Year celebrations. For ethnic Chinese, Cap Go Meh celebrations may be as important to the Chinese
Imlek New Year celebrations. In a religious community Taoists, Cap Go Meh is known as the day of birth San Yuan Shang Kuan Yuan Thian or sky god who gave
humans the gift, he said. While at Tung Han Dynasty 25-220, by Emperor Liu Chang, Yuan Shiau
Ciek celebration in honor of the Buddha, who had appeared on the 30th Imlek month 12 in the West Mainland, which is interpreted the same as the date 15
months 1 Imlek in Mainland east.
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Therefore, the Emperor also ordered the people to worship celebration, procession, installing lanterns, and folk art performances at night precisely Cap
Go Meh. As for the other Chinese people celebrated as the feast of cultural traditions Yuan Shiau Ciek or Cap Go Meh Festival or Lantern suit the conditions
and circumstances of each, he said. While other versions, according to folklore Asali is on Tung Zhou Dynasty
770 BC - 256 BC, namely the farmers on the 15th of the month 1 Imlek installing lanterns called Chau Can Tian around the fields to repel pests and
vermin scaring plants. Farmers are also seeing a change in the color of fire lanterns Ten Lung is
believed to change the color of the flame in the lantern at night it can be known the weather to come, namely whether droughts or more of rain throughout the
year. Thus, every year on the same day the farmer will put lanterns around the
field. Every year growing many lanterns are mounted so as to form a beautiful landscape on the 15th of 1 Imlek month.
Installing lanterns useful addition to repel pests, also created the beautiful scenery. While to scare the vermin plants plus all the sounds, play Barongsai and
pageantry Tatung as starting reinforcements and make it more crowded, Default explained, the celebrations continued for generations until now
celebrated Chinese community that embraces Tri Dharma Sam Kaw people as a religious feast Taoism, Budhhis, and Confucianism. Cap Go Meh is celebrated on
the 15th day of the first month of the Imlek Calendar signifies the last day of
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Imlek New Year celebrations. In Indonesia, the cities that have a large number of ethnic Chinese population is always a feast Cap Go Meh mass. The word is
derived from the Cap Go Meh Teochews or Hokkien dialect is the Cap Go Meh fifteen and it was night. That is the fifteenth night. At the time of the celebration
of Cap Go Meh, most of the city of Medan will be filled with red ornaments - which are considered as ethnic Chinese lucky color - throughout the city. A few
days before the Cap Go Meh, a few temples that exist in the field will hold a ritual to bless the Liong that will be paraded at the time of the parade. Since morning,
one by one eye dragon decorated to display when Cap Go Meh underway. Moreover, the barongsai will also be revoked paraded paper spells pasted on his
forehead. Then the barongsai will be paraded around the city over to peoples houses. Each resident whose home was visited by a barongsai will give angpao
containing money. In addition to the procession of Liong and barongsai, which became the main attraction when the Cap Go Meh is the parade of Tatung
spiritual medium. The Tatung present to resist and repel evil spirits luck in the new year. Before starting the parade, the Tatung will run in vihara ritual prayer to
invoke the protection and avoid yourself from danger. But, it took mental steel to see the Tatung wondrous attractions. Because they would casually jabbing sharp
objects into her body, walking on the sword, and others. What is surprising is the Tatung will not hurt at all. In fact there is no trace left behind after they hold their
attraction. According to the belief of ethnic Chinese, the Tatung possessed by the spirits of the ancestors, so that they will not get hurt while doing the things it was
pretty awful.
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3. THE MEANING OF IMLEK 3.1 Preparation to welcome Imlek New Year
