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the most important Customs of the celebration, the reunion dinner, where people travel from all over to while f@stering close ties. For the next 15 days, the festival is enjoyed with family and friends, observing traditions that involve lion dancessfood, rituals and more.
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Also the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year is the shops are set up itive items and Mapy other thingsit6 prepal rthe celebration. om make their way to their hometowns to celebrate with their family, and with China’s huge population, the travel has often been called the largest annual human migration in the entire world. Once with their loved ones, the celebration begins with reunion dinner the night before. The next few days, the festival is observed with several traditions and customs such as wearing red for good luck, praying to gods and ancestors for blessings, refraining from cleaning of houses to avoid sweeping the good luck away, and children receiving lucky in red envelopes. Royal Brunei Airlines flies Belling 4x weekly and Shanghai 3x weekly.
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2020 Jan-Feb, pages 16-19. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
