Participants shouldering God statue during “Cap Go Meh” Festival at Po An Thian temple in Pekalongan, Center Of Java, Indonesia. In accordance to the combination of 10 Tian Gan and 12 Di Zhi in the lunar calendar system, Chinese ancestry in Indonesia (mostly referred as ‘Tionghoa') are soon celebrating “Cap Go Meh” Festival. The word Cap Go Meh is coming from Tiociu or Hokkien dialect, “Cap Go”, which means “fifteenth” and “Meh” means night. As the name states, the celebration literally means “the fifteenth night” since Chinese New Year. As all of us know, Chinese New Year is considered as the
Participants shouldering God statue during “Cap Go Meh” Festival at Po An Thian temple in Pekalongan, Center Of Java, Indonesia. In accordance to the combination of 10 Tian Gan and 12 Di Zhi in the lunar calendar system, Chinese ancestry in Indonesia (mostly referred as ‘Tionghoa’) are soon celebrating “Cap Go Meh” Festival. The word Cap Go Meh is coming from Tiociu or Hokkien dialect, “Cap Go”, which means “fifteenth” and “Meh” means night. As the name states, the celebration literally means “the fifteenth night” since Chinese New Year. As all of us know, Chinese New Year is considered as the most important holiday for the Chinese. Unlike the Western’s single-day New Year, the Chinese celebrates New Year for a whole 2 weeks, begins on the first day of the first month (Zh?ng Yuè) in the Chinese calendar system and ends with Cap Go Meh in the fifteenth day. (Photo by Dadang Tri/Pacific Press)
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