Chap Goh Meh represents the fifteenth and final day of the Lunar New Year period as celebrated by Chinese migrant communities. The term is from the Hokkien dialect and refers to the fifteenth day of the first month, which is the occasion of the first full moon of the New Year.
The occasion is marked by feasting and various festivities, including the consumption of tangyuan. In traditional Chinese culture, it is also celebrated as the Lantern Festival or the Shang Yuan Festival. In Southeast Asia, however, it coincides with the Chinese Valentine’s Day. It is also when young unmarried women gather to toss tangerines into the sea, in a hope that their future spouse will pick it up – a custom that originated in Penang, Malaysia. In the past, this was also the only day that unmarried ladies could be seen with their partners.
It is not to be confused with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also sometimes known as the “Lantern Festival” in locations such as Singapore, Malaysia. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. It officially ends the Chinese New Year celebrations.
In ancient times, the lanterns were fairly simple, for only the emperor and noblemen had large ornate ones; in modern times, lanterns have been embellished with many complex designs. For example, lanterns are now often made in shapes of animals.
The Lantern Festival is also known as the Little New Year since it marks the end of the series of celebrations starting from the Chinese New Year.
During these days, many sellers start to make their business by selling lanterns and oranges.
This Chinese New Year while everyone is busy celebrating with their families, Trosworld has upgraded the existing server to a new and great performance server.
We have also added extra 1GB RAM and 500GB for faster loading purposes. As our user base is getting bigger and bigger, and we are all preparing for the exciting launch of Trosworld 1.4, we have migrated our email system to new Mail Exchange server as well.
Trosworld is also prepping to do “house cleaning” before it’s launch of Trosworld 1.4. If you haven’t been active in Trosworld for more than 3 months, your account will be automatically deactivated and will be deleted after 6 months since registered with Trosworld.
For more info about Trosworld 1.4, please stay tuned for the recent updates. If you were facing any technical problem or bug in your shop. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
New loading speed will bring your business to another level! Thank you for your support. Last but not least, we would like to thank Shinjiru for helping and assisting us on the server migration during this busy Chinese New Year.
To our valued Trosians in the house!
Trosworld wishing you a romantic and prosperous Chinese New Year. May this Year of Tiger brings you luck and peace. Merchants hurry up to get your shops upgraded to premium before 16th February, as the Giant Teddy is still waiting for you !
Gong Xi Shopping and Fa Cai Selling!
Everybody knows that Trosworld is a shopping portal which provides sellers like you to earn extra income but before you delve into online selling business, there are many things that you should consider.
Starting an online business is not much different than starting a physical shop and with customers that need to drop by your place.
Online business may be different since you will reach a wider audience online without having to meet them face-to-face, but the techniques that will be used to success in online business are pretty similar to traditional businesses.
Remember, Always Start Small
You are probably anxious to embark on this new and thrilling journey of making your online business work. Some people are too eager to start and go all the way to invest all of their savings into their online business. While the eagerness to start the business is commendable, what is more important is to start small.
Yes. There are still risks involved in starting an online business and you don’t want to lose all of your earnings caused by any hasty decisions. Experience is always an edge when it comes to these things and it is therefore imperative that you get to know the ins and outs of the business before you go all the way in.
It is always expected that mistakes will have to be made and learned. Just make sure that your mistakes do not result in huge loss in revenue. Start with small and inexpensive items first.
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