It's a question for Khmer-Chen, and Khmer-Youn. Here in the USA it's pretty much sterotype being Chinese and Vietamese new years. A lot of them don't know that it's a Lunar New Year celebrated by Vietnamese, Chinese, Mongolians, and tibetians! So any half-chen(half chinese) or half-youn(half viet) celebrate this wonderous New Year? I used to celebrate when I was a lad, but not any more. I don't know why, maybe I've been americanized. My family still celebrates it though.

Yea....my family and I celebrated every year never miss it...why don't you celebrate it?... To me this is the time when you could get together and being a family...food, play card, a lot of fun stuff I guess....:D

Yeah, our family does. :)

LOLZ.. I find this quite funny! I'm FULL Chinese myself but I have khmer friends who think they are Chinese or part Chinese just because they claim their grandparents came from China but they don't look Chinese or close to being Chinese at all! :ohno::ohno::ohno: Insecure!

^^ palmface, which asian doesnt celebrate lunar year

LOLZ.. I find this quite funny! I'm FULL Chinese myself but I have khmer friends who think they are Chinese or part Chinese just because they claim their grandparents came from China but they don't look Chinese or close to being Chinese at all! :ohno::ohno::ohno: Insecure!

I met a number of Khmers while I was in Australia and they told me either their grandmother/grandfather/aunty/uncle are Chinese, but their families do not prepare New Years Eve dinner.

Maybe its truth some of their relatives were coming from China but many of them are regarding themselves as Khmer or Khmer born in Australia.

Yeah, our family does. :)

Are you from Melbourne? Sorry because you look like someone I know .. :)

In Cambodia many people (including the non-Chinese) celebrate the Chinese New Year, they gather together and playing cards (my friend told me).

The new year is coming next week, so I wish everyone of you a Happy Chinese New Year !! :)

I met a number of Khmers while I was in Australia and they told me either their grandmother/grandfather/aunty/uncle are Chinese, but their families do not prepare New Years Eve dinner.

Maybe its truth some of their relatives were coming from China but many of them are regarding themselves as Khmer or Khmer born in Australia.

It is very difficult to think your self as Chinese if don't speak a single word.

In Cambodia many people (including the non-Chinese) celebrate the Chinese New Year, they gather together and playing cards (my friend told me).

The new year is coming next week, so I wish everyone of you a Happy Chinese New Year !! :)

Happy New Year to you too.

My Chinese (they can speaks Chinese, but wants to speaks Khmer more) relatives, play cards whenever they gather together, not just Chinese New Year. They see CNY as any other holiday, nothing special.

Yea....my family and I celebrated every year never miss it...why don't you celebrate it?... To me this is the time when you could get together and being a family...food, play card, a lot of fun stuff I guess....:D

As I mention it's probably because I'm more of an American than my Asian side.

LOLZ.. I find this quite funny! I'm FULL Chinese myself but I have khmer friends who think they are Chinese or part Chinese just because they claim their grandparents came from China but they don't look Chinese or close to being Chinese at all! :ohno::ohno::ohno: Insecure!
Cool story, bro. Thanks for sharing, but on topic - do you celebrate Lunar new year?

^^ palmface, which asian doesnt celebrate lunar year

Cambodians, Laos, Thai, Japan, burmese, and many others don't. Here in the USA, viets and chinese are the main one's that celebrate it.

As I mention it's probably because I'm more of an American than my Asian side.

When I am in Australia, everyone celebrate New Year, when Chinese NY comes, the Chinese has lots of celebrations, Dragon dance, etc, and the western join in and have lots of fun as well.

There are lots of Khmer in Sydney, I am not aware of any public celebrations in Aprils.

Cambodians, Laos, Thai, Japan, burmese, and many others don't. Here in the USA, viets and chinese are the main one's that celebrate it.

But Cambodian, Thai, and possibly others has lots of Chinese influence, desprite there is probably no public holiday, there will no doubt be lots of public celebrations, gathering, etc in Chinatown, and those without a Chinese or Viet link often join in to have fun.

^^ ok enough of you, back to topic

ok, back on topic, our family don't take it very seriously, but still retain the tradition of red pocket, and say Gung Hei Fat Choy, etc to each others. This year, we will go and eat outside in new year eve,

My families also burn those fake hell money for the ancestor, but I will not let these tradtional continue into my kids.

Fortune flowers for lunar new year
Monday, 31 January 2011 15:00
Roth Meas

AS Chinese New Year approaches, plant sellers are gearing up for a rush as people flock to buy yellow-flowering shrubs called angkea sel.

The blooms are said to predict the year’s fortune ahead, according to flower seller Hout Sayeang, 56, from Char village in Kampong Chhnang province.

Every year since 1994, she has been bringing the trees from her village to sell near the Japanese Friendship Bridge in Phnom Penh.

“Customers like to choose trees which are about to blossom but this year the festival is earlier than usual, so it’s been hard to get them to bloom,” she says.

If the trees blossom during the first three days of the new year, the year will bring good fortune, she claims.

So she and her family have diligently spraying the trees several times a day with water to get them to flower early.

Her trees are brought from Koh Krolor district in Battambang province 10 days before the Chinese New Year. Hout Sayeang says people there cut trees to sell to her.

It takes her two days to transport the trees to Phnom Penh by truck, and she sells them for between US$15 and $20 each.

About 20 tree sellers congregate near the bridge each year. Khatt Khea, 29, a farmer from Prek Khmom village, Kampot district, says that he has come down to the city every Chinese New Year for 17 years to sell his trees, which this year came from Battambang province.

Shrubs in bloom command a higher price.
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Hout Sayeang travels to Phnom Penh each year to sell trees for Chinese New Year.
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Shrubs in bloom command a higher price.
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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/images/stories/news/national/2011/110131/110131_19c.jpg

^^ ok enough of you, back to topic

:)

Why not if you're a chinese roots well u have to show ur kid the TRaditional don't Ever erase it

ok, back on topic, our family don't take it very seriously, but still retain the tradition of red pocket, and say Gung Hei Fat Choy, etc to each others. This year, we will go and eat outside in new year eve,

My families also burn those fake hell money for the ancestor, but I will not let these tradtional continue into my kids.

Are you from Melbourne? Sorry because you look like someone I know .. :)

Nope. I live in the states (Virginia). :lol:

I live in America and I know how insecure Cambodians can get! Especially when they claim to be mix!

Why not if you're a chinese roots well u have to show ur kid the TRaditional don't Ever erase it

If it is sometihng I don't believe in, there is no reason to let the mistake continue. Buring fake money is not a celebration or memorial, it is superstititous.

^^ palmface, which asian doesnt celebrate lunar year
All East Asians celebrate Chinese New Year except for Japanese who stopped celebrating in 1873 when they switched over to the Gregorian calendar however the festivities is still the same, just on January 1st.

However, this is a commonality shared by countries and cultures who have historically been influenced by China. Therefore, many countries who were historically outside of the Sinosphere in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and West Asia do not celebrate CNY.

If it is sometihng I don't believe in, there is no reason to let the mistake continue. Buring fake money is not a celebration or memorial, it is superstititous.
Burning paper money is superstitious just as believing in anything that can not be proven is superstitious.

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