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When we get together

The fixed moments of the year, and everything that comes in between. Everyone related to the Man family, by blood or by marriage, is welcome.

Red lanterns at night

Coming up

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Mahjong workshop
麻雀 · beginners and advanced

Learn the basics if you've never played, or play mahjong with the experienced players. From 11:00 to 15:00 at the clubhouse, Binnen Bantammerstraat 21, Amsterdam. There's nothing you need to bring.

WORKSHOPCONNECTCLUBHOUSE
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TIME11:00 – 15:00
stay longer if you like
WHEREClubhouse
Binnen Bantammerstraat 21, 1011 CJ Amsterdam
ADMISSIONFree · lunch included
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ALSO PLANNED

Spring Festival dinner 春節

New Year dinner with red envelopes at Sea Palace. Put the date in your calendar now.

DINNERSEA PALACE
WHERESea Palace, Amsterdam
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The yearly rhythm

Five moments that come round every year. The festivals follow the lunar calendar, so they shift from year to year.

FEBRUARY

Spring Festival dinner
春節

The whole family gets together to see in the New Year with a big dinner at Sea Palace. Every four years, the new board is inaugurated there too.

APRIL

Ching Ming
清明節

For honouring the recent ancestors: grandparents, great-grandparents and the generations before them. You clean their grave and bring food and incense. Anyone who can’t get to the grave lights incense at home by a photo.

JULY

Family day out
for young and old

A day out with the whole family – a theme park, the beach or a boat trip. The destination is picked afresh every year.

SEPTEMBER

Mid-Autumn Festival
中秋節

The big family dinner at Sea Palace. Usually 200 to 300 people, from babies to relatives in their nineties.

OCTOBER

Chung Yeung
重陽節

For honouring the distant ancestors of the whole clan. Descendants from San Tin, Chau Tau and Europe gather at the grave of the founder, Man Sai Gor 文世歌, near Tuen Mun. You can join relatives who are going.

Read where these festivals come from

Earlier this year

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