Hong Kong, China. 2010.2.15 - To clients and friends in Asia and around the world, we extend sincere Happy New Year - Gong Xi Fa Cai - Kung Hei Fat Choi - Chuc Mung Nam Moi.
May the coming year bring health, happiness and prosperity to you and your family.
To many Asian people, and especially the Chinese, the Lunar New Year Festival is the most important of all traditional holidays.
The colour red is used liberally in all decorations and in the "Lai See" (red packets, containing coins or banknotes) given by elders and married people to their younger relatives and single colleagues.
Beginning on the first day of the first lunar month, this period is the longest public holiday on the Chinese calendar, when factories and businesses are closed and annual holidays are taken.
During this period, migrant workers within China, and overseas Chinese from around the world, travel to their ancestral homes to celebrate Chinese New Year's eve in reunion dinners with their families.
Chinese New Year comprises the largest human migration. During this 40-day period, more than a billion inter-urban trips are taken in mainland China.
In the ancient Chinese custom of attributing the characteristics of an animal to a twelve year cycle, the Year of the Tiger commences today.
The elemental sign is metal. The qualities associated with metal are firmness, rigidity, persistence, strength, determination and courage.
Distinctive people born in the Year of the Tiger, include: Kofi Annan, Sir David Attenborough, Chuck Berry, Sir Richard Branson, Emily Bronte, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Agatha Christie, Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Phil Collins, Leonardo DiCaprio, Isadora Duncan, Charles De Gaulle, Enya, Dwight D. Eisenhower, E. M. Forster, Jodie Foster, Peter Gabriel, Germaine Greer, Ed Harris, Buddy Holly, William Hurt, Steve Irwin, Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Marilyn Monroe, Rudolph Nureyev, Beatrix Potter, Marco Polo, Elizabeth Regina II. Oliver Reed. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Schlesinger, Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, Hilary Swank, Dylan Thomas, Ludwig Van Beethoven, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Robbie Williams, Tennessee Williams, Natalie Wood and William Wordsworth.
Digital Tsunami has a high level of familiarity with the social and business considerations of working in China, with Chinese suppliers and for the China market. Our Chinese personnel have an intimate understanding and cultural and linguistic fluency and decades of expertise in filming and delivering Chinese language solutions in film, online and in print.
Digital Tsunami was founded in Hong Kong in 1996 and Essential, (its' film production division, founded in 1980), has travelled and filmed within China since 1986.
If you have requirements for commercial or corporate online or film projects, contact us to benefit from our expertise.
