Happy New Year!
February 18th was Year of the Pig and we celebrated by visiting Chinatown and eating noodles, for long life.
The celebration of the Lunar New Year is the most important of all traditional Chinese holidays and usually requires a trip back home to see the folks, dinner with family and friends, as well as the ever-popular red envelopes that have varying amounts of cash in them (in even number increments only)-- these are called "lai si" and are offered to all unmarried singles and children.
The celebration is one of the biggest for many communities with Asian populations, and as a business, you may participate in the following ways:
1) Use your website to acknowledge and celebrate the New Year for your Asian Pacific Islander customers and clients 2) Attend or sponsor a cultural event, parade, or other Lunar New Year activity in your area
3) Highlight the event and a cultural "snippet" in your company newsletter or e-newsletter
4) Find your local Asian business association or chamber of commerce and attend their upcoming event or sign up for their membership list
http://www.awib.org/content_frames/directory/asian/
http://www.awib.org/content_frames/directory/asian/
5) Sponsor an internship, an "exhibition day," or an hour lunch for a group of Asian and Pacific Islander students at the local college or high school.
Happy Lunar New Year to you too, Monica! I wish you the best and thanks for all you do for us here at Know More Media.
Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | February 21, 2007 8:37 AM | Permalink to Comment