Happy Lunar New Year! To the younger crowd, this means getting red envelopes (filled with money). To the rest, it means celebrating with food, firecrackers, dragon/lion dances, change in the zodiac, wishing good health/fortune, and all of that good stuff. We’ve often joked that Lunar New Year is Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas combined. You don’t have to be of Asian descent to celebrate Lunar New Year – if your values align, join in on the celebration!
Last month, we shared our thoughts about the new year. Now that we are in February, how are you doing with your goal progression? Do you need to modify your goals? We’re doing our best with our goals and have some exciting news to share shortly!
When it comes to culture, it is okay to celebrate who you are. Even though I (Nancy) was born in Los Angeles, I was raised in an Asian household, but influenced by the diverse crowd throughout my life. I grew up with people from all sorts of backgrounds, whether they were also children of immigrant parents, first-generation Americans, or from a multi-generational family. Mario grew up in an Asian community and had his fair share of Asian influence through food and culture.
diversity and representation are so important
One of the ways we relate to people is through our values, influenced by our culture. As an example, Kim’s Convenience is great because there were a lot of relatable scenes, like the stuff our parents would say. At the same time, although shows like Bling Empire or House of Ho are not exactly relatable (because they’re crazy rich), it’s always great to see others succeed and be decked out in Hermès furniture. Growing up, there weren’t shows like this.
be kind to others
It is important to treat people with kindness, regardless of who they are. There have been increased attacks against Asian Americans throughout the states. Whether it was racially motivated or not, attacking anyone out of the blue is horrible. With the pandemic going on right now, it is extra important for all of us to stick together and pull through. It can be challenging, especially with life feeling limited right now. This is especially the time to be kind to your neighbors.
With Lunar New Year, we wish you positive luck, prosperity, happiness, and good health.
PS. On the topic of representation, we’re excited to be featured on Feedspot’s top blogs. We’re featured in the Los Angeles and Asian Influencers sections!
Here’s hoping your Lunar New Year celebrations go well this weekend, however you are celebrating. Also wishing you both positive luck, prosperity, happiness, and good health!
This is was a lovely post! Happy lunar new year, some of my closest friends are celebrating today so I’m aware of the holiday! I hope you have a great day x
Happy Lunar New Year!
Love this Post! I also agree Lunar New Year feels like all the big holidays combined! There’s fantastic food to be enjoyed, parades and traditional colors to be displayed, and simply a time to express your good will and intentions to those you love. Unfortunately with the pandemic things are different this year. but my household is trying to come together to still celebrate and spread joy in smaller ways to keep the spirit alive. Also glad to see a mention to be kind to one another and raise awareness of increased reporting of attacks and harassment against members of the Asian community. We must all protect each other during these unprecedented times
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Happy Lunar New Year to you, Mario and your loved ones! I hope you get to spend it together and safe. Lots of love x
Happy Lunar New Year! Love your humorous but important opening to this and your powerful ending.
“You don’t have to be of Asian descent to celebrate Lunar New Year – if your values align, join in on the celebration!”
This is how I view traditions. We have our own traditions; my mother comes from Pakistan, my father from New Jersey here in the states, so we celebrate American holidays and also the holidays and occasions my mother’s family holds dear. In addition to that, we also love to adapt or join in on other traditions from other cultures. Your words on values aligning represent exactly how my family holds culture and celebration.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
This sounds like a wonderful celebration and not something I’ve celebrated before! I completely agree with you that it’s so important to be kind to others and respect those around you, and their culture xx
Happy lunar new year!
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Lovely post! Hope you had a fab lunar new year celebration! I usually get invited to a dinner but not this year. Hopefully next year I could see some friends x
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Happy Lunar New Year! Those Chanel envelopes are gorgeous! Excited about your news you are going to share, sounds like it’s going to be a really good year for you. I would love to learn more about Asian traditions & lifestyle – maybe a cool idea for the future? People are so closed minded and don’t accept anything other than they are used to…I am mixed race and have learned so much from my Mum (she’s half Jamaican). Growing up I never questioned that my family was any different to others – when my Mum was little and at school she was a true minority (some of her stories really break my heart). As I’ve gotten older and experienced more, I really see how others just don’t understand or too ignorant to educate themselves. The violence that still is happening around the world is horrific. What I’ve also realised is the amount of people who will openly say something racist – not considering who they are talking to? Maybe it’s a British thing – wouldn’t surprise me. But it really infuriates me, sometimes you can just tell that someone is about to make a comment.
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I love the positivity in your message. Living in Vancouver, I am able to appreciate the diversity and multicultural make up of our city. I love hearing about the customs and traditions of other cultures. Thanks for sharing!
It’s so important to remember to be nice to people always! Happy New Year and wishing you a happy and safe year ahead!
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Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you all the best and I hope the celebrations and kindness to one another is joyous!
My sister lives out in Malaysia and they celebrate this, she says it is an amazing celebration 🎉
What good thoughts for the new year! I hope that you were able to celebrate and have a good time! We celebrated Lunar New Year with the family this weekend – my Malaysian father in law cooks a huge bunch of his favourite traditional dishes and we have a nice meal with the family. Although to be fair I’d never celebrated it before meeting my husband, it’s nice to celebrate it with his family and try teach the kids a little more about their culture and a little more Chinese!
Hope you had a good weekend 🙂
Happy Lunar New Year to the both of you! Lunar new years sounds so fun. Cullen and I love watching Kim’s Convenience as well. Cullen is Korean and he loves seeing his culture represented on tv. The attacks against Asian Americans have been so terrible in the past year. It is so important for people to educate themselves and stand up against racism
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One of my friends is Chinese and has been telling us all about how it’s celebrated and it honestly sounds like such a great celebration! I like what you said about being kind, sadly another friend was attacked outside their university for simply being Asian. It’s crazy how people will run with these mindless hateful ideologies!
The way I didn’t know Chanel made money envelopes! Happy Lunar New Year to you both!
I hope you had a great time celebrating! It sounds like such a fun holiday based on your description of it being like a few combined. Your final paragraph is so spot on too, it doesn’t take a lot to be nice to one another x
Happy Lunar New Year!! Hope you have a great week.
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Happy Lunar New Year! I hope you had a lovely time celebrating. I love what you said about being kind to others – I think especially now it’s more important to show kindness in any way that you can 🙂 x
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Getting red envelopes with cash is a definite win! I wish you positive luck, prosperity, happiness, and good health, too! Thanks so much for sharing this tradition.
Thank you for sharing information about your culture. I hope you enjoyed your celebrations.
Happy Lunar New Year! We hope you had a great time celebrating. Btw, the Chanel envelopes are so cute.
Happy Lunar New Year to you too! I can’t wait to hear more about your plans for this year and I loved your encouragement for sharing kindness. It is amazing what even a simple smile can do to brighten someones day!
I celebrated Lunar New Year a couple of years ago and it was so much fun! Happy Lunar New Year!
I’m so sorry to read about the attacks in America, that’s very sad. And I think we could all do with more reminders about being kind to each other, especially now. Happy – belated – Lunar New Year to you both 🙂
Happy Lunar new year! Hope you had a lovely time celebrating! It really is so so important to be kind to others, especially with everything that is going on right now, it’s been an extremely tough for a lot of people. xx
Hi Nancy, I didn’t know about the Lunar New Year traditions of getting red envelopes filled with money. I love that idea of wishing people good fortune and good health in the New Year. It is so uplifting.
Great post! I really enjoyed reading this and it was very interesting so thank you for sharing! Happy lunar new year to both of you and I hope you have a good time celebrating it!
Happy Lunar New Year ( I know I am quite a few days late!) I think it is fab to join in other culture’s celebrations as it gives you more knowledge and understanding of each other. Plus the moon is a pretty special thing, isn’t it?! Hope the next year brings you all the health, happiness and prosperity.
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Happy Lunar New year !
This year I got a red enveloppe I was so happy for it. This tradition is adorable.
Now I want watch Kim’s convenience. It sounds like a great show.
xx
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Happy belated Lunar New Year! Hope you had a good celebration and wishing you all the fortune and joy this year! x
Great post! I love learning more about the Lunar New Year and traditions that families have. It seems especially important to educate myself this year, given the ongoing attacks toward Asian Americans recently—it’s unbelievably horrifying. Thank you for sharing this, and happy Lunar New Year to you!
Happy Lunar New Year! I hope you lived the day at the best of your heart! You are such an incredible person. Thank you for all your inspiring words. Love you.
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