 Go away for a time. Joke with none mind. I'm Chris, half Chinese, half Vietnamese, born and raised in England. This is Mia. Hi guys, I'm Chinese, born and raised in Vietnam. So today, both of us are going to tell you our experience about Lunar New Year. Cool, let's get started. The first thing is, it's called Lunar New Year, right? Yeah, it's Lunar New Year because we are using Lunar calendar. But a lot of people call it Chinese New Year. I guess so because a lot of Chinese around the world. Yeah, we are Chinese too. We are Chinese too, so... But in Vietnam, it's also called Tet or... Tet. Take it right. Tet. Dirt. Tea, like tea. No, but tea would be Tet. Better pronunciations from a Vietnamese girl. Commonly known as Chinese New Year or Dirt? Yep. Well, not only does China and Vietnam celebrate it, there's actually other countries that celebrate Dirt or Chinese New Year. Tibet, Mongolia and also Korea. Oh, wow. Yeah, there's over a billion people celebrating this holiday, which is basically Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's all bundled into one. It's like this big celebration that lasts for 15 days and it stops. In Cantonese, like 上云旦, basically is the first biggest festival in a year. Love it, love it! Why Tet holiday or Chinese New Year is the most desirable holiday of the year? You get a chance to get some red envelope or lacy or lacy. This one, which is full of money inside. In order to get more lacy, you have to go buy lins. So basically, it's giving some greeting to the elderly or someone who is married. That's why we're here to help you get more lacy. So some of the things or greetings you might say is Everyone knows that! 恭喜發財 actually means you get more money or be more wealthy in the next year. It's not just like Happy New Year. But I've heard a lot of Westerners use that as the Happy New Year. 恭喜發財 is the standard one. If you say like Happy New Year, you almost always say I hope you make lots of money next year. Yeah, because Chinese love money. That's true, Chinese love money. 身體健康 It's basically a wish of health, right? Wish you good health. What it actually means is like a successful in things you do. But the literal translation is literally a horse invading a city. Anything you wish for will become the truth. So be careful what you wish for. 完才就少 Meaning you get some money without working hard, which is cool, right? So basically it's for anyone who likes to gambling. There's a lot about money, isn't there? Yeah, Chinese love money. The next one would be Just like for the women. You keep your beauty. Why just women? It's my question. Because men, they don't care about their look. Is it true guys? Do you care about your looks? No, we don't. Only women care about it. 總要夠穩 Meaning you wish you always have luck. If you do anything, you need luck. 法高長大,學業進步 Obviously a bunch of things that people say to each other. But also there's some things that you should do during Lunar New Year. What are those things, Mia? As you are a resident expert. Apparently you need to clean your house on a specific day leading up to the new year. Tell us about that. At the end of the year, my mom would like She'd have to look it up on the Tung Seng to pick out one perfect day for everyone to clean the house. Pick up the sofa. Pick up the sofa? We actually have a specific day to do it. So it's like so opiate. The second thing is Another good day for you to clean up all the statue in your house every god in your house and then put on some red things. What is this red thing? Another thing, people buy a lot of things. So like you're supposed to wear like new outfits and like new shoes and new hats or whatever. Tell us about that. Why do you buy new things? Like new year, new thing, right? New year, new me. So you have to put on some new clothes. Wish I could use everyone to do that. A good excuse for you to waste money on clothes, isn't it? I guess so. Probably. On Lian Sa Man, you have to take a shower as early as possible. You have to wash your feet, wash your feet earlier so you will do things faster than people. So it means you are first in line for folks? Yes, first in line. Wow, native. And also on the Lian Sa Man, I'm 29 years old. It's very crucial for you to wear a new shoe. Tai Xiao Yan. Explain what like Tai Xiao Yan is. It's super weird. So what is it? So Xiao Yan basically is some bad guy who will do bad things at you, like talk bad about you. So if you put on the new shoes, like basically you will like stopping them to do that in the next coming year. So weird. But okay. So do you know that on Lian Sa Man, like my auntie always say, you should wear red underwear to attract more luck. Yeah, I would do this. So first day of the new year, we will go to temples, visit a lot of temples, wish for good luck, wish for health, of course money. And of course money. Recurring theme here, recurring theme. And then usually on Lian Sa Yi, the second day of new year, we will have Haolin. There's like rituals in terms of like buying things for the god. Basically you're giving your offerings to the god, right? So we spoke about the things that you should do. What about the things that you shouldn't do? Actually on the new year eve, you shouldn't say bad thing, like even joking is like prohibit. It's a very sacred night. And on the first day of new year, don't wash your hair, you can shower of course. But why is what we want to know? You will wash away your luck. You will wash away your bad luck. You wash away your good luck. Oh. That's why you don't wash it. Otherwise you should wash your hair 10 times a day. And also don't sweep the floor. Don't sweep on the first day of the new year is because that would also sweep away any of the fortune or luck that you might have. Don't give away stuff on the first month. Don't give away stuff on the first month. Why? First month is more about getting more in. If you give away, you probably give away your luck, your fortune. Don't buy shoes and buy hat because shoes are like high, high. Saying like you don't want to high, high the whole year. So high is basically like you encounter some bad things. Like, hey, yeah, like Uncle Roger. Hey, yeah. And no. No is like basically like nothing. Nothing is nothing. If you buy nothing, it's like, if you buy nothing, it's like, what do you do with that for, right? I've probably done all of these things without even knowing because there's too much symbolism. There's too much like things that are kind of silly. Like a billion people do this. So it's kind of crazy. Let's move on to other random things that you should know about this holiday. Do you know that on the seventh day is like birthday for everyone? On the seventh day of the new year, which is February the seventh this year, it's the birthday for everybody. Yeah, it's like It's like everybody just gets a day off anyway because it's part of the celebration and it's like you can celebrate your birthday again. So you have two birthdays in a year. You just say happy birthday on the seventh. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Some great tip from your mom. Pro tip from mother. If you have B.O. You should buy a mantou, which is a It's like a bun. Yeah, like a bun without anything inside. And then put it on your armpit and just like sit there for like five minutes. You get rid of your B.O. I don't get it. I don't get it too. On the 15th, in here Saigon, we will have a parade. So we are bringing out the God statue from the temple and give them a tour. So it's called Ah Po Chuc Yau. It will like bong chi ah po. And then Tang yong yong. Tang yong yong. How many people get like any of the things you just said? Oh my god. Yes. Yeah, not so in the temple. Cho guan miu. What do you call that? Tuk tuk chang ah. Tai hei ah. Tai hei yeah. Tai hei. So they will perform a Tai hei for the God inside the temple. Tuk tuk chang ah. It's called tuk tuk chang ah mom. That's yeah, that's the slang word for it. It's actually like onomatopoeia. Tuk tuk chang. Because it actually sounds like that. This is what it sounds like. Something is very random and very hard to understand. Even for you, like you have a Chinese root, right? Yeah, it's one of the holidays that you learn something every year that's new that you have to do or not do. And it's really interesting. Sometimes I don't understand about it, but it's just like doing it because it's Chinese new you, right? It's bringing you the vibe. Well, I hope you have learned on how random lunar new year is and how symbolic it is to lots of Chinese people and Asian people around the world. If you haven't had a Chinese new year, I hope you will have a chance to experience that holiday only experience the holiday. Yeah, I hope you can celebrate Chinese new year with us this year. Eat good, rest well, get lots of money. Wish you a happy new year. Peace. Bye. Let's get started. Wait, let's see. Hello guys. Yeah, maybe I'll do this. Okay, I'm gonna take the other one. Let's see. Uh, let's see. I'm Chinese. No. Yes, you're Chinese. Yeah, you're fucking Chinese, well. And today we're gonna just be there. Oh yeah, in England, they don't do any of this. So any of this is bullshit. I didn't really understand that. Does that make sense? No. Take a whole pair, tell me. So, ah. I'm joking. Okay, yes. Now that