Happy Chinese New Year 2008 Thai Postage Stamp

Stamp Name : Chinese New Year 2008
Country : Thailand, Thai Postage Stamp
Date of Issue : 1 February 2008

The Chinese New Year has the highlighted celebration 3 days to performs with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors, the sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of tall the rituals, united the living members with those who has passed away, and the presence of the ancestors, is acknowledged on New Year's Eve. Each shrine will have a lion dance troupe as a symbolic ritual to usher in the Lunar New Year as well as to evict bad spirits from the premises.

During the Chinese New Year, the Chinese will greet each other with Sin Jiun Yu Yi Sin Ni Huad Jai (Chao Zhou Dialect) or Sin Jen Ru Yi Sin Nian Fa Chai (Mandarin) that means good luck, wealthy for the new year. The others will reply with Tang Tang Yu Ee which means good luck to you too.

Another symbol of this tradition is also "red envelop" or Tae Ear which all the children will be received as gift from adult. Tae Ear means binding on waist. During the ancient time, the meney had hole in the middle, when received they had to bind together with the red thread and to bind on waist. After that there was no hole on the money, and then it chanced to use the red envelope instead and called "Any Pao".

Source: Thai Stamp Bulletin, Issue 1, Vol. 2008.