Celebrating Chinese New Year is still ongoing in February but, a few cities in Indonesia have started to set up for celebrating rousing Chinese New Year. There are so many attractive cities in Indonesia that become tourist attractions to spend Chinese New Year vacation like Semarang city. To celebrate in Semarang is always held quite rousing and it is completed by the events of the interesting cultural festival also culinary that cannot be missed. Every corner of the city is designed with Chinese New Year characteristic trinkets and it makes this atmosphere getting more suitable. If you are interested in enjoying Chinese New Year atmosphere at the best of tourist attractions in Semarang so, you can visit place recommendations below.
The vacation of Chinese New Year in Semarang will not complete if you do not visit Sam Po Kong Temple. This place always carries out the events of Chinese New Year celebrations such as lion dance performance, liong samsi, magic, costume festival, modern dance, music stage, and etc. The building of Sam Po Kong consists of few parts which are a big temple, the Sam Po Kong Cave, Tho Tee Kong temple, and worship places. Basically, all of the parts in the Sam Po Kong Temple are used for worship so that, not all people can go into the number of those rooms and only people who want to worship can enter.
Whereas, for tourists still enjoying the beauty of temple building and its history from the outside. Sam Po Kong Temple can be stated that one of the central Chinese New Year celebration which is quite rousing in Semarang. This temple is actually the former heritage or landing and the first stopover by Zheng He who is a Chinese admiral and he is Muslim but, most people call him Cheng Ho. Moreover, this temple is always crowded by tourists with the purpose of worship or just taking photos. Therefore, please make sure to be not missed the rousing events which are held in this place to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Even though there are a lot of non-halal cuisines or it uses the pig as the basic material, do not worry if you are Muslim because of still many other halal cuisines. Besides, the visitors can enjoy a variety of delicious traditional food until contemporary food, they also can watch Chinese culture performance like potehi puppet that tells about the heroism of Chinese character.
Furthermore, do not be missed to follow Tuk Panjang tradition which is usually held at Semawis Market as an opening sign of Chinese New Year celebration in Semarang. This tradition is attended by a hundred people from a variety of different religions and sitting together while enjoying the food dishes. Those food dishes usually are Shanghai soup, Cap Go Meh spring roll, Hainan chicken rice, broccoli and shiitake mushroom, Obar Abir market snacks, ice lengkeng bak. Tuk Panjang tradition is not only followed by invited guests but also, the tourists who come can participate and enliven it.
Every year, the various activities are held in this temple. For instance, giving red envelopes (Angpao) and some parcels for underprivileged people. The foundation of Tay Kak Sie Temple prepared 1.250 red envelopes and parcels that will be given for underprivileged people at Chinese New Year celebration in 2018. Moreover, it will be the highlight of Chinese New Year celebration which takes place lively and crowded. Therefore, Tay Kak Sie Temple also can be the choice of enjoying Chinese New Year atmosphere at the best tourist attraction in Semarang.
The tourists who come to this place will have an opportunity to take some photos together with Cengge characters like Dewa Petir, Dewa Bintang Selatan, Raja Langit, Dewi Kwan Im, Sun Go Khong, 12 shio, Qin Kui, Yue Fei, and still many others. Besides, there are also a lot of booths that sell a variety of unique accessories and trinkets such as car hanger, lantern, doll, bag, ceramics, souvenir, qibao clothes, accessories, statues, painting, embroidery, and handicraft.
Well, that is all about the best tourist attractions in Semarang which are suitable to celebrate Chinese New Year together with family. To celebrate Chinese New Year in Semarang certainly becomes the right choice since there are so many events that you can visit. This matter, the government of the city always prepares the yearly events of rousing Chinese New Year and it is certainly fun to join for celebrating. Moreover, do not forget to buy popular gifts from Semarang as the souvenirs for your family and friends. At last, hope this information makes useful.
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