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.
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!
Dear all trosians,
We would like to wish you have a great holiday and and a properous new year.
Thank you for using Trosworld and we hope that you had a good time buying and selling on Trosworld this year and we are looking foward to serves you better in 2010.
From Trosworld’s team,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hello there,
Some of you may have noticed the changes made to our homepage lately. We thought after six months, Trosworld deserves a facelift to reflect the progress that we are making. We would be happy if you guys could give us feedback on the new look.
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Hey fellow Trosians,
We’ve got a piece of good news for you guys though it’s still under Beta. Starting today, you can run sale promotions by showing a price slash on your product page. All you need to do is, go to edit products and fill in the price that you wish to slash in the ‘Old Price’ field. Read more…
Did you noticed anything on your screen while you were browsing Trosworld’s homepage? Look again if you missed it. For those who noticed it, we want to present you ‘My Genie’ which is already live on Trosworld but still under the Beta period. Having said that, it will be improved with advance feature such as you may customize My Genie (change the skin, filtering your menu etc), Buying records and master checkout function will be added onto My Genie. Cool, you’ll get the chance to personalize your genie.
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Widgets function has come to Trosworld!! Widget or in Trosworld it is referred as ‘Script Editor’ is a tool for you to easily add programs on your Trosworld website. One common example of a widget that most of us came across almost every day is those Google advertisements. These ads are produced by placing a small piece of code on the web page. But web widgets aren’t limited to advertisements only. A widget can be anything from a voting poll to a weather forecast to games to video to crossword puzzle. With this feature, you can add and arrange your website to be more functional to you and your customers. You may add games, advertisement, banner, chatbox, video, social networking batches, and etc. You can utilize them in your website to provide an interactive shopping experience for visitors.
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It is not worth to get heart attack by your computer, or laptop.
Backup is our new feature that should be useful for Trosworld’s merchants to keep all their data saved and also to avoid you from having heart attack
. A backup data plan will help you to protect information such as business contacts and content, emails, products details and other records.
Be aware that accidents and system failures do happen. Backing up your data can prevent data loss when events such files and folders from your computer are deleted by failure or accident, data is destroyed from hard disk error or virus infection or your computer is physically destroyed from natural disaster, fire or someone steals your computer.
When you backup your files, you are storing your files separately from your computer which is our server. So, if your computer crashes or is infected with a virus that results in a loss of files, you will still have access and you can still restore your files to your computer proper from this function. You can simply request and download your files back onto your computer whenever you want. Now, you no need to worry to duplicate your contents anymore. Just upgrade to Premium to enjoy this feature.
We will constantly put our efforts for you to have a better business experience with Trosworld.
Happy backing up trosians!!
The holiday seasons are almost upon us, with the school holidays, Christmas and New Year just around the corner, it’s hard not to think about shopping for gifts.
In line with this year’s Christmas celebration, Trosworld is rolling out its 1st campaign to help shoppers search for that special gift for their loved ones, online.
Sign up today and participate in this exciting new campaign, only at Trosworld.
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