With the Lunar New Year entering the Year of the Fire Horse, how do people born in the Year of the Horse view their fortunes for this year?
Yelia is a single mother of three and has lived in Melbourne since 2003. Having lived in Bandung before migrating to Australia, Yelia said she always takes her children to Lunar New Year festivals around Melbourne to expose her kids to Chinese cultural traditions as much as possible.
"We have a tradition of wearing new clothes, preferably red," she told SBS Indonesian. "And new shoes. And they [the children] all understand the tradition because it's the same every year."
In terms of luck, Yelia said that this new year is not a good one for those born under the Chinese zodiac sign, the horse, like herself, adding that other signs might also face the same fate.
Meanwhile, from Sydney, finance broker David Sutantyo admitted he doesn't pay much attention to negative Chinese zodiac predictions.
He said that a person's luck is determined by the little decisions they make every day, rather than their birth year.
Luck is what you make, not what is determined.David Sutantyo
Born in 1990, David's Chinese zodiac sign is the Horse. Raised in a Chinese family who practices Lunar New Year traditions, he faces unique challenges in continuing these traditions in his small family's life in Australia.
How much influence does the Chinese zodiac have on a person's personal life and decision-making? How do those born under the sign of the Horse view their fortunes in the Year of the Horse? And how are Chinese-Indonesian families living in Australia continuing the Lunar New Year traditions?
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