Refer to the 1st Jan., 2011

Refer Regarding to the 1st Jan., 2011

According to the Chinese Lunar calendar; the 1st Jan. this year (2011) was is a very good date in on which lots of people, including my friend, had have their wedding ceremonies and wedding parties.

So it cost me a fortune (red envelopesment for wedding gifts) in on the first day of the New Year, although Sure, I had a good time to getting together with my long-time-no-see graduate classmates.

In At the wedding party there was, as usual, a touching video of for the new couple’s proposal & their childhood photos, luxury wedding dress photos, a certain sincere ceremony like a modern society has.

We ate have eaten a lot, talked a lot told more, laughed loudly; most important of all, we made fun of played a practical joke on the groom by treating him to a strange but fragrant drink (mixed with wine, judge(?), spies source (spicy sauce?), chicken soup, and green onion).

Refer to Regarding weddings, Taiwanese are quite superstitious which means we need to find good dates for management these things. We don’t have a buffet but gather at the table.

I am invited to around six wedding parties around “6” this year. People hurry to get married at around 30 years old. Too many friends is as a terrible thing for with my pocket, I need to offer red envelopes for each invitation and I’m not sure if I can get them back.

Hi Joyce, I hope my corrections fit your meanings properly.

long-time-no-see shouldn’t really be used as an adjective, just as you would never say “我好久不见的朋友”，but only use it as a greeting.

Do you think modern wedding ceremonies are more sincere than those of the past? I have to admit when my ex-wife and I married we broke all the rules. She didn’t want to invite all her relatives (she is Chinese) and told her mother we were not going to have a ceremony. Her mother told her relatives we were going to get married in New Zealand even though we really married in China so we could get her a visa. That was when people from PRC couldn’t get passports easily. So we saved a lot of money and used it for travelling.

Why don’t you think you will get the money back that you spend on red envelopes? Are you going to do what we did and get married somewhere else, or are you not bothered about getting married?

Do you know how to enable 繁体on Windows? I tried to do it for my explanation above and I now have a button giving the option of Taiwanese Chinese, but it just gives Roman letters. Not that I will use 繁体much because I don’t know many of the characters. I learnt a bit of classical Chinese once a week for six months about ten years ago, but apart from that have never used it.