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Chinese New Year Celebration
Tawau Town, Sabah, Malaysia

Chinese New Year Celebration in Tawau Town
 2020-01-28 TUE 19:43 斗湖普照寺 Pu Zhao Temple, Tawau

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The Chinese communities all over the world welcome the Year of the Horse with great fanfare, family reunions, dinners and traditional lion and unicorn dances performed from house to house. Children and unmarried individuals receive packets of money known as ‘ang pow’ wishing them good luck and prosperity.

Dragons, unicorns and lions come alive during every annual Chinese New Year.
Dance troupes will put on a dazzling display of agility, grace and choreography as we celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Chinese New Year is an annual celebration marking the start of the year according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year always falls in the months of January or February.

Each Chinese New Year is represented by 1 of the 12 creatures of the Chinese Zodiac – 2014 is the year of the Horse.
Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival and in pre-modern times it would signal to farmers in China that they must begin preparation for the sowing of their fields.

Chinese New Year celebration lasted 15 days and end by Chap Goh Mei.
Chap Goh Mei (the 15th Day of Chinese New Year), is still an important time for families to gather together again to end the Chinese New Year celebrations with a meal and more fireworks.

Chinese New Year is an annual celebration marking the start of the new year according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year always falls in the months of January or February, and each Chinese New Year is represented by 1 of the 12 creatures of the Chinese Zodiac.

Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival, and in pre-modern times it would signal to farmers in China that they must begin preparation for the sowing of their fields.
 

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斗湖普照寺

財路興旺 Thriving Source of wealth

東成西就 Success in multi achievements

成就理想 Great Accomplishments

美麗健康 Beautiful and healthy

相親相愛 Loving each other

增福增慧 Increasing in Blessing and Wisdom

圓滿幸福 Satisfactorily and happiness

四海同春
斗湖新春龍麒獅大會串

Lion dance involve two dancers – one positioned at the front to steer the head and the other one behind to control the body area. Both dancers will move in a motion imitating a lion in accordance to the beating of drums and the clashing of cymbals.

Lion is believed to be the custodian or protector in many of the Chinese traditions, the Dance of Lion is very popular and is regarded as the ancestral dance among the Chinese dating way back to a thousand years ago.

Lion dance normally signifies the surrounding environment. Thus, such dance is normally performed as a ritual to remove bad or evil spirits and at the same time, for blessing and luck.

Onlookers crowded around the lion dance troupes to enjoy the spectacular shows.
Accompanied by the thunderous roar of drums and cymbals, the two lions amazed the audience with their showmanship and acrobatic movements.

During the show, the God of Prosperity was also seen handing out sweets to guests. The handing over of offerings consisting of lettuce leaves, mandarin oranges and pomelo was the final act.

The burning of special joss sticks for prosperity.
Photo shows a Lion Dance Troupe leader praying with joss sticks in the temple for blessing, protection and prosperity.

斗湖新春龍麟獅大會串
2014年正月二十六日（星期日）下午四時
斗湖大會堂
甲午年(2014)新春龍麒獅大會串節目表:

3:30pm:全體理事到場。
3:40pm:各龍麒獅團報到-大會堂集合。
4:00pm:大會串開始。醒獅團表演。武術表演。
5:30pm:貴賓蒞臨。
6:00pm:全體肅立，唱國，州歌。開幕典禮。貴賓聯合剪彩儀式。大會主席拿督楊志輝榮譽少校致歡迎詞。開幕嘉賓丹斯里拿督劉榮華準將主持擂鼓開幕禮。頒發感謝狀及津貼給各龍麒獅隊伍。
金龍團，
麒麟團，
醒獅團，
武術表演。
醒獅團表演。
9:00pm:散會.
 

斗湖普照寺醒獅團、潮州公會、沙巴武術協會斗湖, 福建會館京獅團、客家公會麒麟團、斗湖佛教會醒獅團和巴中校友會金龍

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