china town typical building

china town in southeast asia has the characteristics of buildings (especially the style of the roof) that follow the architectural style of China, made, namely the series coincide house and almost no side yard, such as commercial buildings now or buildings are modern 'town houses' a level two.

whereas china town buildings in other countries like the U.S. and Europe, in general they are buying, renting or lease existing buildings and rarely was originally built its own, like china town in southeast asia, so that the building in china town with their architecture other existing buildings

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imlek 2010 is the year of tiger

 

 

Red lanterns hung over the Lunar New Year celebration as the meaning of luck 

Lunar New Year is the most important celebration of Tionghoa. Lunar New Year celebration begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: Zheng Yuè) in penaggalan Tionghoa and ends with Cap Go Meh in date to fifteen (at the time of full moon). New Year's Eve is known as Chúxī imlek which means "night turn of the year".

In Tionkok, customs and traditions associated with the area the Chinese New Year celebration is very diverse. However, all of which share many common themes such as the banquet dinner on New Year's Eve, as well as triggering fireworks. Although the Chinese calendar traditionally did not use the number continuous years, dating Tionghoa outside China often numbered from the reign of Huang Ti. At least now there are three years numbered 1 are used by various experts, so that in the year 2009 AD "In Tionghoa" could be the year 4707, 4706, or 4646

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