{"id":146426,"date":"2026-02-19T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146426"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:30:08","slug":"why-lunar-new-year-celebrations-are-about-the-people-not-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146426","title":{"rendered":"Why Lunar New Year celebrations are about the people, not the process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostI remember when I was four or five years old, my great-grandmother would get busy days ahead of Lunar New Year. She would clean the house, pickle vegetables in an enormous jar and start pre-cooking dishes for the New Year\u2019s Eve family meal.<br \/>\nOne star of the night, called \u201clion\u2019s head\u201d, is steamed minced pork meat balls that take days to make. My great-grandmother would go to the market ahead of time and pick out pork belly that was the right balance of lean and fat meat, carefully chopping the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3343871\/why-lunar-new-year-celebrations-are-about-people-not-process?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostI remember when I was four or five years old, my great-grandmother would get busy days ahead of Lunar New Year. She would clean&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146426"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}