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It is spelled varyingly in English, such as "Gung hay fat choy", [209] "gong hey fat choi", [208] or "Kung Hei Fat Choy". [210] It is often mistakenly assumed to be synonymous with "Happy New Year".
Gung Haggis Fat Choy was created in 1993 when a Simon Fraser University student Todd Wong was asked to help out with the university's annual Robbie Burns Day celebrations. . Wong, a fifth generation Canadian, quickly learned about Scottish-Canadian culture with its traditions of men wearing kilts, carrying swords, playing bagpipes and cuisi
Fat choy (traditional Chinese: 髮菜; simplified Chinese: 发菜; pinyin: fàcài; Jyutping: faat³ coi³; Nostoc flagelliforme) is a terrestrial cyanobacterium (a type of photosynthetic bacteria) that is used as a vegetable in Chinese cuisine. When dried, the product has the appearance of black hair. For that reason, its name in Chinese means ...
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Kung Hei Fat Choy is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy film produced, directed by and starring Dean Shek.The film co-stars Alan Tam and George Lam.Released to celebrate the Chinese New Year of 1985, the film's title is based on the greeting wishers give on the new year's first day.
The San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is an annual event in San Francisco, California, United States.Held for approximately two weeks following the first day of the Chinese New Year, it combines elements of the Chinese Lantern Festival with a typical American parade.
When most English-speakers refer to Chinese New Year, they say k/gung hay fat choi, not gong xi fa cai (though this may likely change within our lifetimes, due to Mainland emigration and lobbying efforts by the PRC). This is English Wikipedia, not Mandarin Wikipedia or Taiwanpedia.