New Years Day in Hong Kong: how we celebrated in 1966 and 1916
On New Years Day we open the South China Morning Post archives to compare what we were celebrating and talking about 50 and 100 years ago
Hong Kong’s excitement for New Year’s Eve has not changed much throughout its history – go back
One hundred years before the age of nightclubs and Lan Kwai Fong and it seems the dance parties were more lavish and grand.
Jump back 50 years to the swingin’ 1960s and it seems Hong Kong people greeted the New Year with various ways but all in pleasure. Opposite to wild parties and clubs, church service had been common and important.
In 2016 Hong Kongers might well have one of many things on their minds about the world around them and what it will mean in the future. Maybe they’re thinking of the threats of climate change, the threats of war in the Middle East or domestic terrorism. Perhaps they’re thinking of the ongoing tensions of housing, population growth and overcrowding here in Hong Kong; worried their friends or family will be tricked out of their life savings by phone scammers posing as mainland officials, or their children being subjected to the TSA.
Here’s what we found in our past when we opened the South China Morning Post archives for New Year’s Day, 50 and 100 years ago.
