The Food:
Food prepared for Chinese New Year:
Year Cake - getting promotion every year!
Turnip (White Radish) Cake - good beginning!
Spring Candy - to welcome the arrival of Spring!
Melon Seed - a lot of children
Lotus Seed - having children continuously
Peanut - longevity
Large Tangerine - big luck and big profit (金橘子, jinju)
Spring roll - gold bar
Dumplings - silver ingot (餃子, jiǎozi)
Fish - having surplus every year (魚, yú)
Dragon eye (longan) - wealth and family reunion
Dates - having intelligent children soon
Hair seaweed - having a jockpot
Treasure bar - full of gold and jewelry
恭喜發財
Gōngxǐ fācái
"Congratulations and be Prosperous"
While the first two words of this phrase had a much longer historical significance, in practical terms involve surviving the harsh winter conditions.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
2009 Chinese New Year Party (NTNU-OIA)
Monday, January 19, 2009
2009 Chinese New Year (Preparation)
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2009
The Preparation:
Before the celebration, people here starts cleaning up their houses...throw things that are old (buy new one). Renovation here and there... houses full of sayings...and not to mention the "beauty salon", double the price when you go there before and after new year. Before, i don't see the logic, later on I learned that they prepare themselves for a new brand lucky year and remove all the bad luck they had previously...
Chinese Household should also have live blooming plants to symbolize rebirth and new growth. Flowers are believed to be symbolic of wealth and high positions in one's career. Lucky is the home with a plant that blooms on New Year's Day, for that foretells a year of prosperity.
╭┘└┘└╮∴°☆°
└┐．．┌┘─╮∴°
╭┴──┤牛扭 ├╮
│ｏｏ│ 錢坤 │●°
╰┬──╯ │ ∴°﹒
☆ ˍ
ˍ/ˍˍˍˍ/∴☆．
2009
The Preparation:
Before the celebration, people here starts cleaning up their houses...throw things that are old (buy new one). Renovation here and there... houses full of sayings...and not to mention the "beauty salon", double the price when you go there before and after new year. Before, i don't see the logic, later on I learned that they prepare themselves for a new brand lucky year and remove all the bad luck they had previously...
Chinese Household should also have live blooming plants to symbolize rebirth and new growth. Flowers are believed to be symbolic of wealth and high positions in one's career. Lucky is the home with a plant that blooms on New Year's Day, for that foretells a year of prosperity.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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