Lunar New Year or Sincia a new year celebration for the Indonesians, who started on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: Zheng Yuè) penaggalan Indonesians, known as Guo Nian (read: Kuo Nian). This celebration ends with Cap Go Meh on the date to fifteen (at the time of the full moon).
On that day the people of the excited Tionghoa and usually when you meet relatives and friends always say "Gong Xi, Gong Xi (read: Kong Si - Si Kong), which means saying" Congratulations - Congratulations! ". But this speech was developed become "Gong Xi Fa Cai" (read: Kong Si Fa Cai) which means "Good fortune hopefully cheaper," Xin Nien Kuai Lok (read: Khuai Lok Sin Nien) which means "Happy New Year"
In Indonesia, during 1965-1998, the celebration of Lunar New Year is celebrated banned in public. Presidential Instruction No. 14 of 1967, the New Order regime under President Suharto, prohibits all things Indonesians, including Lunar New Year.
Sino communities in Indonesia to regain the freedom to celebrate Lunar New Year in 2000 when President Abdurrahman Wahid revoked Presidential Instruction No. 14/1967. President Megawati Sukarnoputri and then followed up by issuing a Presidential Decree No. 19/2002 dated 9 April 2002 which inaugurated the Lunar New Year a national holiday. As of 2003, the official Lunar New Year as one of national holiday.
GONG XI FA CAI, Xin Nien Kuai LOK!
Happy Lunar New Year 2561 - February 14, 2010
Rusdy Gunawan
http://rusdygunawan.blogspot.com
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