Text Messaging for Chinese New Year Greetings: Hated and Loved – Josie Liu

 Cnn 2007 World Asiapcf 02 17 Beijing.Fireworks.Ap Story.Beijing.Fireworks.Afp  Txclpjj9 Ty Rdpt-Giow8I Aaaaaaaaahm Xeacvzo9Rde S1600 Sms+Greetings+3 From China in Transition blog:

Just when a national competition for the best Chinese New Year greeting message texted through cell phone is about to announce the winner, some people in Guangzhou posted comments online calling on the public to refuse text messaging as a “cheap and lazy” way of the New Year greeting.

As a long tradition, greeting people for the Chinese New Year, or bai nian, is an etiquette that almost no one can avoid during the holiday. Everybody, old and young, rich and poor, men and women, will always either utter or receive good wishes for things like money, accomplishments, happiness and health. [Full Text]

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