Hong Kong, 9 Feb (ZXS) -- Hong Kong people celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve with joy.
China News Service reporter Dai Menglan.
Visit the flower market, taste the intangible cultural heritage, and eat Chinese New Year's Eve meals ...... the whole familyAlthough there was a light rain in the sky of Hong Kong on Chinese New Year's Eve, many Hong Kong citizens still spent the last day of the Year of the Rabbit in a joyful atmosphere.
Located near the Tin Hau MTR station, the Victoria Park (Victoria Park) New Year Fair is the largest New Year flower market in Hong Kong.
The photo shows Hong Kong citizens shopping for Chinese New Year flowers at the Lunar New Year Fair in Victoria Park on February 9. Photo by China News Service reporter Dai Menglan.
Mr. Li, the owner of the "post-95" stall of the main orchid market, said in an interview with reporters that he and a group of "post-00" friends jointly operated the booth, and they added innovative elements such as LED lights to the packaging of New Year's flowers. This is his second time participating in the Victoria Park New Year Market, and the overall business is better than last year, and the sales on Chinese New Year's Eve are higher than the previous days. The Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR**), Paul Chan, also came to the Victoria Park Lunar New Year Fair in the afternoon, where he bought orchids and dried goods, shook hands with the public, and congratulated them on the New Year.
In addition to visiting the flower market, intangible cultural heritage is also one of the options for Hong Kong people to celebrate the festive season. A "mobile intangible cultural heritage" exhibition vehicle next to Hing Fat Street in Causeway Bay is quite conspicuous in the dense**, and from time to time people board the bus to learn about Hong Kong's intangible cultural heritage.
Staff member Mr. Kwan introduced to reporters that the "Mobile Intangible Cultural Heritage" exhibition vehicle is a special activity jointly planned by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Office and the Cultural Heritage Resource Centre of the Conservancy Society (now known as the "Hong Kong Cultural Heritage Resource Centre"), the exhibition vehicle usually drives into schools and communities for exhibition, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, there are more citizens and tourists visiting than usual, and everyone is more interested in Cantonese dim sum steamers, traditional Chinese calendars and lion head making skills.
Eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is an indispensable part of Chinese New Year's Eve. Ms. Dai, the manager of a Hunan restaurant near Tsim Sha Tsui, said that in order to welcome the Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon, the restaurant has recently updated its menu on the basis of retaining the characteristics of Hunan cuisine and taking into account the taste preferences of the Hong Kong market. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table is basically booked in advance.
Tonight we are ready to try the special poon choi from the Hong Kong Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. At the famous Golden Bauhinia Square, Ms. Gao, a tourist from Beijing, and her mother excitedly took a group photo in front of the Golden Bauhinia sculpture. She told reporters that she had long heard of the beautiful meaning of poon choi "full of pots", and this time she came to Hong Kong to travel to New Year to arrange to experience it, and then she will go to Hong Kong Disneyland.
When preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Liang Jundu, president of the Hong Kong Oriental Calligraphy and Painting Academy, specially invited several mainland youths who stayed in Hong Kong for the New Year to participate in the dinner, hoping to bring the warmth of young people's homes. He told reporters that on Chinese New Year's Eve, he admired several paintings of the Year of the Dragon by his friend Ye Jincheng, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, at home, and the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, representing authority, strength and auspiciousness, hoping that the world will be peaceful in the Year of the Dragon and the country's development will be thriving; Hong Kong will complete the enactment of Article 23 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong as soon as possible to ensure social prosperity and stability; I wish my relatives and friends good health, "good luck in the Year of the Dragon, and good luck in the Year of the Dragon".
The company of family and friends is the collective memory of the Chinese New Year. Wan Chai District Councillor Mu Jiajun posted on Chinese New Year's Eve that he and his wife took the baby to register the birth **, and he said with a smile: "The child is finally a person with an 'identity'!" In the Year of the Rabbit, Mu Jiajun not only achieved the professional identity change from a secondary school teacher to a district councilor, but also became a father, he told reporters that on Chinese New Year's Eve, he was going to go to the Tin Hau Temple near Causeway Bay to grab incense, hoping that the Year of the Dragon would spend more time with his family and serve the community well. (ENDS).