A very Happy New Year in Macau can be experienced by tourists in the course of their Macau tours. A New Year in Macau is accompanied by all the celebrations and events that are normally held from the night of the 31st of December to the morning of the 1st January across the world.
However, a New Year in Macau scales new heights during the Lunar New Year celebrated at the end of January and the beginning of February by the Chinese. The Lunar New Year welcomes each Chinese year of the horse, dog, tiger, monkey or other animals specified in the Chinese calendar, with much élan and grandeur.
So the festival of New Year in Macau is celebrated twice, the first of which constitutes rejoicing in the New Year of 1st January with the rest of the globe and the second, being the Lunar New Year that is exclusively celebrated in the realms of China, Macau and some parts of the world which are densely populated by Chinese immigrants and their descendents.
The New Year in Macau hails a renaissance - a rebirth of a new period for you to rectify your mistakes, make new resolutions and start afresh without harping on what is past. The citizens of Macau usher in the New Year in Macau with firecrackers, gifts and tight embraces and hugs and are imbued in a general feeling of love and brotherhood, giving and sharing and of course, partying during the Macau New Year. Greeting cards in paper or of the Internet are bequeathed to loved ones and feasts are organized galore so that the revelers can enjoy the coming of the New Year in Macau 'to the lees'. Preparations of roast lamb, chicken, beef, venison, mutton; steaks of different flavors; and a whole host of Chinese delicacies including the famous fried rice, Hakka noodles and the stir-fried chicken sweet-and-sour; not to talk of the traditional Chinese and Western desserts; are offered to the party animals in all the restaurants and nightclubs of Macau.
Adults and children dress up in ostentatious apparel and even costumes to greet the New Year in Macau. Wall hangings and statues of dragons breathing fire adorn the streets, homes, eateries, taverns and discothèques of Macau during the New Year in Macau.
Two events to remember, the New Years in Macau embrace locals and tourists alike with their festivities.
travel.mapsofworld.com provides extensive online information on New Year in Macau.
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