Chinese New Year

So today, my country celebrates the Chinese New Year. Although I'm not Chinese, my country, Vietnam, still celebrates it. Historically, China invaded Vietnam and took over. Therefore, the Chinese culture is still part of Vietnam today. It's the year of the ox, and so hopefully for those of you who were born on the years of the ox will be lucky this year, as they say. What my culture usually do on Chinese New Year is first thing first, before we do anything else, we must wish our elders a lot of prosperity, strength, happiness, and blessings. After we do that, the elders reward us with what we call in Vietnam "li xi". Li xi is a little red envelope which contains money. It's something every child looks forward to every year, of course. After that, we'd celebrate with a lot of food and treats. Back in Virginia Beach, the entire Vietnamese community came together to the PCC center and had a huge celebration with music, dancing, food, most importantly, the lion dance! It was a lot of fun, and hopefully just reading, you all can get a gist of what my culture is all about ;)