EVERY year, the colors and rituals of the Spring Festival, known worldwide as the Chinese New Year, spill beyond Binondo and into the wider Filipino imagination. Red lanterns glow, lucky charms are displayed, and conversations turn to feng shui and fortune.

Many of us are drawn to the symbolism, quietly wondering whether prosperity might somehow be summoned by ritual. Yet beneath the spectacle lies a quieter, more durable source of success: a culture shaped by discipline, thrift and patient work.

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