There are several reasons why Malaysians celebrate Chinese New Year…
The celebration is centered around removing the bad and the old, and welcoming the new and the good. It’s also a time to worship ancestors, ward off evil spirits and pray for good harvest.
Ang pows or red envelopes stuffed with money are usually given out by the elders and married couples as a gift to the young and unmarried. Meanwhile, giving out Mandarin oranges is an indicator of ‘freshness’ which also represents wishes for long life and fertility to the ones receiving them.
Photo via TikTok (@muhamad_30_)
In a video that recently went viral on TikTok shows a cleaner who collected a few angpows and a ton of boxed drinks and mandarin oranges while he works cleaning outside of people’s houses on Chinese New Year.
The abang cleaner can be seen sorting out the boxed drinks and mandarin oranges that he received. He even showed some of the angpows he got and had collected RM809 in just one day! Wah!
“Though I work as a cleaner, and no one would want to come close because I smell, there are still kind people out there who would want to share their blessings with me,” he said.
The video has since garnered over 10,000 views at the time of writing.
Malaysians took to the comment section to thank him for his hard work: “You deserve it! Thank you for your hard work” one person commented.
Wah look at all those oranges and drinks! How lucky!
