Image: A New Year Lion Dance
A Universally Known Festival, the Gong
Hee Fa Chai, the Chinese New Year
(Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons under
the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)
Summer Solstice is barely felt. There are no seasonal changes as Malaysia is close to the Equator. The Chinese community did traditionally observe it before. Hank was called once when we had a rich Chinese towkay in the neighbourhood. His son, a friend gathered six of us boys one day and we had a noodles tuck-in among ourselves. Barely in our teens we were not aware of its significance. That’s the nearest I had to it.
Apparently, the December Solstice is a bigger event but confined
to the community. However, we had not seen it as a festival in recent years.
Just hot and wet as usual
We long for some flakes
Frank's at d'Verse Haibun Monday 6-22-26: First Solstice
Interesting haibun , Hank
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Oh... what difference... though it is not exactly on the solstice day, midsummer is very much celebrated.
ReplyDelete"Just hot and wet as usual" is a great way to describe midsummer and the solstice in my native Houston!
ReplyDeleteI don't live quite so near the Equator as that, being sub-tropical. But I'd rather the heat than being in a cold climate! (I have tried both.)i
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