{"id":75,"date":"2021-12-22T02:18:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/cny\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2023-01-03T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:15:29","slug":"origin-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/origin-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"position: absolute;\" hidden=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Chinese New Year Event<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"position: absolute;\" hidden=\"\">Lion dances, red decor, reunion dinners, red packets (angbaos in hokkien) etc<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Lion dances, red decor, reunion dinners, red packets (<em>angbaos&nbsp;<\/em>in hokkien) etc. are a common sight every Chinese New Year. One could say that they are the bread and butter of the festival; without these traditions and practices, it certainly wouldn\u2019t be Chinese New Year, would it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look past the surface, you\u2019ll find that everything we do during Chinese New Year has certain significance. Here are the cool origin stories and cultural contexts behind the CNY traditions we\u2019re all so familiar with! Spot the Easter eggs! Or in this case, the mandarin oranges? Wait\u2026 there\u2019s more! Check out the origin story behind Singapore\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/toss-like-a-boss\/\" style=\"color:#000\"><u>yusheng<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>and other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/about\/\" style=\"color:#000\"><strong><u>distinctive Singaporean practices<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Want to know more about the meaning of Chinese New Year? Grasp the ins and outs of one of Singapore\u2019s favourite holidays with<strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O1gMubXQZgU&amp;list=PLBV_6lyG3cCYcd9s81oK3DmCAR6Or3Scn&amp;index=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"color:#000\"><em><u>Kaki Says: Chinese New Year<\/u><\/em><\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese New Year Event Lion dances, red decor, reunion dinners, red packets (angbaos in hokkien) etc Lion dances, red decor, reunion dinners, red packets (angbaos&nbsp;in hokkien) etc. are a common sight every Chinese New Year. One could say that they are the bread and butter of the festival; without these traditions and practices, it certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"origin-stories.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivefever.singaporeccc.org.sg\/chinese-new-year\/archival\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}