Do you know why Gong-xi Gong-xi 恭喜恭喜is a common Chinese greeting for Lunar New Year🤔? Gong-xi, gong-xi means “congratulations”. The reason why we congratulate each other goes back to the legend of Nian 👹. Nian is a mythical monster who would come down and cause destruction once a year. Eating children, destroying farmland and causing chaos😱. My guess is that Nian symbolized natural disasters and disease in ancient times. So if you were to survive the annual attack of Nian, people would congra

The Gong Show (October 19, 1977)