{"id":42647,"date":"2021-02-25T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=42647"},"modified":"2021-02-28T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:22:11","slug":"chap-goh-mei-yuanxiaojie-or-lantern-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=42647","title":{"rendered":"Chap Goh Mei (YuanXiaoJie) or Lantern Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 15<sup>th<\/sup> day marks the first night of the full moon and also the end of Chinese New Year celebration.\u00a0 It is also known as Lantern Festival Day.\u00a0 Another reunion dinner for us to celebrate, a customary to have special sweet dumplings called <em>YuanXiao<\/em>\u00a0also called T<em>angYuan<\/em><em>\u00a0made<\/em> of glutinous rice flour stuffed with sugar fillings, symbolizing a family unity and wholeness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42652 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2-178x100.jpg 178w, https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChapGohMei-Image-2-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This festive is about rejoicing and cultivating positive relationship between people \u2013 friends and families.\u00a0 Another legend associates with higher beings \u2018Ruler of Heaven\u2019 responsible for good fortune, bestowing wealth and good luck.<\/p>\n<p>To some, Chap Goh Mei is known as the Chinese Valentine\u2019s Day \u2013 coz long time ago it was the only day that young maidens were allowed to dress up, stroll on the street and went to temples to pray, wishing to bestow a suitable match.\u00a0 Such believes are still practice to this day\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Let us know how do you celebrate your last day or <strong><em>Chap Goh Mei<\/em><\/strong> which falls on Friday, 26 February 2021\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sally Foo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th day marks the first night of the full moon and also the end of Chinese New Year celebration.\u00a0 It is also known as Lantern Festival Day.\u00a0 Another reunion dinner for us to celebrate, a customary to have special sweet dumplings called YuanXiao\u00a0also called TangYuan\u00a0made of glutinous rice flour stuffed with sugar fillings, symbolizing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=42647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chap Goh Mei (YuanXiaoJie) or Lantern Festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42677,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42647\/revisions\/42677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}