It's that time of the year for the most important Chinese Festival of the whole year: Chinese New Year, or 中國農曆新年! A festive time filled with wintery skies, red packets (紅包), relatives (and more relatives!), feasts (and more feasts!), the all important color Red and visiting old friends. Yay!!
We are already starting to do our preparations including a favorite ritual of mine, the Chinese New Year Tray of Togetherness! The Tray of Togetherness, or 攢盒, is a lovely (red!) chinese candy box with compartments that you fill up with all different kind of chinese new year candies, all of which have symbolically lucky meanings. Then when your Chinese New Year visitors come a'calling, you can offer them some lucky nibbles.
