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Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer~ the atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger~ I couldn't feel much atmosphere here in Australia at all~ :-P have to wait until I back to Malaysia then the mood would be fantastic!!!
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• Hair: [Ginko Hair] Unrigged(Male/resizer)- #49 Hair
• Outfit : r-l-f+N RAN - [r-l-f]+*N*Chinese Dress - Shoryu Fatpack
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Scene :
• Donuts: [Cinoe] - At a cafe in Kyoto @ KUSTOM9
• Drinks Jar: [Cinoe] - Looking forward to the future - The Food Court
• Furniture set: [Cinoe] - Children's daily life
Chinese new year 2009 falls on 26th of January 2009, last for 15 days. Chinese New Year 2009 is the year of the Ox.
Nian Nian You Yu is a greeting Words for chinese new year~~ Meaning abundant Year By Year., which always means "Money"."Fish" and "abundant" have the same pronunciation "Yu", but in different character~ therefore, chinese always using fish to represent abundant.
Another similar explaination that I found from the internet is~
"Every Chinese family tends to serve at least one fish dish during Chinese New Year. "Nian Nian You Yu" means "there's some fish every year", but fish in Chinese (Yu) shares the same sound with the word 'extra' or 'leftover'; so the true meaning serving the dish really is: "there is some (fish) leftover from the previous year, every year".Which always meaning money."
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
The tittle of this photo is translet directly from chinese tittle, I am hardly think of what words in English is suitable for this photo~~
"Chun" in Chinese Means - "Spring"; "Shui" means "Water"... Since this photo is a bit consist of Chinese Traditional style~~ So I decided to use the directly words from Chinese~~
I hope you guys enjoy this photo~~ :-)
Have a great weekend!!
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
This photo is actually based on the idea of Chinese International Movie called "Curse of the Golden Flower" directed by Zhang Yi Mou, staring by Gong Li and Chaw Yong Fat... It is a really artistic movie with wonderful breathtaking colourful scenes~
I am trying something different with this photo as well as the colour... not sure you guys like it or not~~
Hopefully you do~~ :-)
And Have a great weekend everyone!!!
Cheung Chau Pak Tai Temple (長洲北帝廟), Hong Kong City - it was built in 1783, and it is listed as a Grade I historic building of Hong Kong.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
This is my 100 photo that I've posted...
This is not photoshop! Only picasa!!
Thank you very much for your support and comments, faves, views of my photos. I will try to be better and better and post 100s 100s .... more photos in the future.
Really never ever expected I would be so crazy about photography before June 2007... I always thought it is wasting time to do pure landscape photography when I went to travel, as I can just buy a postcard which is much more beautiful than taking photo myself... haha... but now, I totally changed!
I am really glad to know all of you guys... feel like I've known you guys for ages... in fact, only two months or less.
Thanks again everyone, you are all my best friends!!! Hug!
This photo was taken actually quite a few months ago on the day when it was Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival~ just not sure what to post now and therefore post this photo from my achieve~
Have a super great Weekend my dear friends!!!
Hello my dear friends! I will be away back to my hometown Malaysia for 3 weeks more. I will transit and spend a night in Gold Coast tonight and tomorrow morning fly back to Malaysia for Chinese New Year!!!
Some of you might think it is too early that I started to post Chinese New Year photos this week, as I am going away and off flickr~ therefore I have say to a greeting to all you now! (for some of you might not know when is chinese new year, it is 26th January last for 15 days).
So this will be my last photo until I come back from holiday!!
Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends; And for those who aren't Chinese, please share the joy with us together!!! Cheers!!!
Lastly, thank you sooo much for your ,view,comment,fave my photos ! you guys are rock!!!
See you in 3 weeks time! Byebye!!
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亲爱的朋友们，
我今晚将会乘搭飞机到黄金海岸，然后明天一早就飞回马来西亚我的家乡过春节了。
有些朋友可能会觉得奇怪，为什么这个星期我天天都在张贴跟春节有关的作品～那就是因为我将会离开三个星期左右， 所以就趁早向您拜个早年。
谢谢您一直以来的支持和鼓励，我非常的珍惜!也希望来年会有更好的作品与大家分享。
这将会是我农历新年前的最后一张照片～
“万事如意 财运亨通！！
牛转乾坤福满园！”
祝大家有个快乐的新年！
再见罗！！
注：请联络 Kristine ， 如果你有任何关于 The Perfect Photographer (最佳摄影师)小组的问题～谢谢！
Some of you asked me what my Chinese Zodiac Is in the previous post!
If you want to know what is your Chinese Zodiac Year is, please click HERE to find out! and let us know what is it!! :-)
I am a ROOSTER!!(1981)
Zhu Bao Ping An is a Chinese Idiom, it came from:
"竹（bamboo） is the material to make 竹简 (zhujian), which is used to write letters on.
竹报(zhubao) is the alias for family letters.
平安(Ping An) is Peaceful
so 竹报平安(Zhu Bao Ping An) refers to the family letter to report safety."(From: www.lifeinchina.cn/thread-5479-2-1.html)
After that, it became Chinese New Year Greeting words "means peace is announced, and wishes that peace will last for the whole year like the evergreen bamboo. These are things that the Chinese will hope the New Year brings them." (From www.cawoking.org.uk/home/Festivals/chinese_new_year/chine...
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
阿德雷德的粽子又贵又不好吃～！所以今年决定自己动手包一次粽子！
于是就在youtube找到了一个非常好的包粽子教学片断～～
没想到第一次包粽子，一个也没散/漏！真的觉得自己太厉害太有才华了！哈哈哈！！
和大家分享一下～～！祝大家端午节快乐！！
This is first time ever that i try to make rice dumpling for the festival, surprisingly they are all turned out very good!!! I feel myself sooooooooooooo talented !!
Here is the youtube clip that I learn how to fold them~ click HERE to have a look.
Happy Dragon Boat festival to my Chinese Friends and for those who are not celebrating it, please share the joy!!!Cheers!!!
"The three most widespread activities for the Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival are eating (and preparing) zongzi, an angular rice ball wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves; drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats.
The Duanwu Festival is a Chinese traditional and statutory holiday. It is a public holiday in mainland China and in Taiwan, where it is known as the "Duanwu Festival". It is also a public holiday in Hong Kong and Macau, where it is known as Duen Ng Festival. Its alternative name in English is "Dragon Boat Festival", after one of the traditional activities for the holiday..
The most well-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC - 278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu, in the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty. A descendant of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry, for which he is now remembered. Twenty-eight years later, Qin conquered the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month.
It is said that the local people, who admired him, threw food into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. This is said to be the origin of zongzi. The local people were also said to have paddled out on boats, either to scare the fish away or to retrieve his body. This is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing."
(From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival )
There is another story about the glutinious rice wrapped in bamboo which is not included in wikipedia. From my knowleage, the people who admired Qu Yuan,they threw foods into the river for him to eat. But the foods always being eaten by fishes and therefore, they came out with the idea wrapped the foods in the bamboo leaf in order to prevent it eaten by fishes.
Zhen Zhen, a lovely panda girl born in San Diego Zoo and 5 months old now. This is a Chinese traditional papercuts art style in black paper. Inspiration is photo by kjdrill and thanks for his permission. Please see the original photo at www.flickr.com/photos/kjdrill/2188037867/
If someone like this papercut, you can print out and cut out the white part. So you have a original paper art by yourself. I can sure your shortsight eyes get worse and the arm, neck will very tire!
Please try it at home. Have fun!
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
Cheung Chau Pak Tai Temple (長洲北帝廟), Hong Kong City - it was built in 1783, and it is listed as a Grade I historic building of Hong Kong.
I am so glad that even I am in Australia but the china town here also selling this Glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo for the festival! But actually the taste here not as good as in my hometown(Malaysia).... anyway, is always better than nothing!!!
Happy Dragon Boat festival to my Chinese Friends and for those who are not celebrating it, please share the joy!!!Cheers!!!
"The three most widespread activities for the Duanwu/Dragon Boat Festival are eating (and preparing) zongzi, an angular rice ball wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves; drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats.
The Duanwu Festival is a Chinese traditional and statutory holiday. It is a public holiday in mainland China and in Taiwan, where it is known as the "Duanwu Festival". It is also a public holiday in Hong Kong and Macau, where it is known as Duen Ng Festival. Its alternative name in English is "Dragon Boat Festival", after one of the traditional activities for the holiday..
The most well-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC - 278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu, in the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty. A descendant of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry, for which he is now remembered. Twenty-eight years later, Qin conquered the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month.
It is said that the local people, who admired him, threw food into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. This is said to be the origin of zongzi. The local people were also said to have paddled out on boats, either to scare the fish away or to retrieve his body. This is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing."
(From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival )
There is another story about the glutinious rice wrapped in bamboo which is not included in wikipedia. From my knowleage, the people who admired Qu Yuan,they threw foods into the river for him to eat. But the foods always being eaten by fishes and therefore, they came out with the idea wrapped the foods in the bamboo leaf in order to prevent it eaten by fishes.
The tittle of this photo is translet directly from chinese tittle, I am hardly think of what words in English is suitable for this photo~~
"Chun" in Chinese Means - "Spring"; "Shui" means "Water"... Since this photo is a bit consist of Chinese Traditional style~~ So I decided to use the directly words from Chinese~~
I hope you guys enjoy this photo~~ :-)
Bought this cute little decoration from Malaysia while I back there for Chinese New Year last few months~~ As it is year of the rat for Chinese, therefore, there were a lot of different kind of rat decoration products in the market. Personally, I think this is the most beautiful one!
"The Mid-Autumn Festival (Simplified Chinese: 中秋节; Traditional Chinese: 中秋節; pinyin: zhōngqiūjié), also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival, similar in name to a different festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year).
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar).The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.
Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together.
Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:
Eating moon cakes outside under the moon
*Putting pomelo rinds on one's head
*Carrying brightly lit lanterns
*Burning incense in reverence to *deities including Chang'e
*Planting Mid-Autumn trees
*Lighting lanterns on towers
*Fire Dragon Dances "
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
P/S:
To All My friends~~~ no matter what nationality you are... this lantern photograph is specially dedicate for you!!!
Happy Mid Autumn Festival my friends!!!!!
中秋節快樂!!!
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
It is passed 12am midnight in Australia, Tuesday, therefore, it is mid-autumn festival for us already!!!
To all my Chinese dear Friends~~~ Happy Mid Autumn Festival and Don't eat too much moon cakes!!! Sooooo fat!!!!
To all my other friends!!! Lets share the joy !!!
I still have other photo(s) for the festival, will post it later on and will let you know what is Mid- Autumn festival about!
Cheers my friends!!
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
"The Mid-Autumn Festival (Simplified Chinese: 中秋节; Traditional Chinese: 中秋節; pinyin: zhōngqiūjié), also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival, similar in name to a different festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year).
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar).The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.
Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together.
Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:
Eating moon cakes outside under the moon
*Putting pomelo rinds on one's head
*Carrying brightly lit lanterns
*Burning incense in reverence to *deities including Chang'e
*Planting Mid-Autumn trees
*Lighting lanterns on towers
*Fire Dragon Dances "
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival
By the way, this photo almost straight from the camera~~ should be my 1st photo with the least processing~only added the Chinese Characters and increase very little bit darkness~ hope you like it!!
P/S:
To All My friends~~~ no matter what nationality you are... this lantern photograph is specially dedicate for you!!!
Happy Mid Autumn Festival my friends!!!!!
中秋節快樂!!!
This photo is purely processed from Picasa only, sometimes I am very surprised with what Picasa can do... only the fram is processed from other software.
"Chun Xiao" is a old fomous poet in Chinese culture... it means "Spring Dawn"...The poet of this poem was Meng Hao Ran, from Tang Dynasty.
春眠不觉晓， 处处闻啼鸟。
夜来风雨声， 花落知多少。
Five-character-quatrain
A SPRING MORNING
I awake light-hearted this morning of spring,
Everywhere round me the singing of birds --
But now I remember the night, the storm,
And I wonder how many blossoms were broken.
English Translations from www.shiandci.net/ts300-8e.htm
Cheung Chau Pak Tai Temple (長洲北帝廟), Hong Kong City - it was built in 1783, and it is listed as a Grade I historic building of Hong Kong.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
At the Garrison, Toronto, Canada @ NXNE 2012;
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Cheung Chau Pak Tai Temple (長洲北帝廟), Hong Kong City - it was built in 1783, and it is listed as a Grade I historic building of Hong Kong.
Fung Ying Seen Koon (蓬瀛仙館), Fung Lai, Hong Kong - In some Asian culture, they will write some wishes on some red wooden tag and hang up them for sending a message to the Gods.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.
Fung Ying Seen Koon (蓬瀛仙館), Fung Lai, Hong Kong - In some Asian culture, they will write some wishes on some red wooden tag and hang up them for sending a message to the Gods.
Kwan Tai Temple (武帝廟), Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong city - first built in unknown year of Qing dynasty, last re-built at A.D.1891 (光緒十七年). Now it is one of Grade 2 historic buildings in Hong Kong.