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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 06:00

Another thing I found out from #xiaohongshu is that Chinese people really HATE term Lunar New Year, so please don't say that to them. It's actually "Spring Festival" (chun jie) or "Guo Nian" (passing of a year). In Malaysia we simply call it Chinese New Year. In Hokkien, we call it "xin jia".

I don't know if we're sensitive about the Lunar bit in Malaysia though.

[#]Chinese #China #RedNote #Xiaohongshu #ChineseNewYear

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Written by zombiecide on 2025-01-22 at 06:15

@liztai any idea why?

I always heard to it referred as Chinese new year because there are several prominent new years following a lunar calender (and likely many more local ones)

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 06:16

@zombiecide I didn't read why exactly, but something to do with it being inaccurate as it isn't really about the moon or something lol. And they feel that the West (don't quote me) is trying to water down the origins of the celebration being Chinese.

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Written by zombiecide on 2025-01-22 at 06:46

@liztai that ... ist interesting

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 06:58

@zombiecide interesting to me too. my Chinese cousins have a deeper knowledge of the culture so things will be different I guess

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 06:17

@zombiecide I really need to find the post again,but it's like somewhere in my feed a long time ago.

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Written by ✅💃Màdiq🙈🙉🙊Iźichi💃✅ on 2025-01-22 at 07:05

@liztai the festival is based on the Lunar calendar, and given that chinese in other SEA countries celebrate this same festival, TET in Vietnam, Lunar New Year covers "minorities"

china chinese should grow up, 华人≠中国人

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 07:14

@MadiqIzichi I don't know? Maybe that's the reason because they want to differentiate themselves from the other festivals?

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Written by Jørn on 2025-01-22 at 07:19

@liztai I’ve been told Vietnamese call it Lunar New Year, and hate the term Chinese New Year. I don’t know about Spring Festival, I’ll ask about that next chance I have.

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-22 at 09:01

@jornane I'll try to find the xhs post too :P

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