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Ah, so you think I admire the British and European culture, landscape and history a lot. And I do, but part of me is also very traditional Chinese, something that I inherited from mother. To her, the foremost important thing to do on Chinese/ Lunar New Year (today 2019-02-05, Year of the Pig) is to ask for good blessings and good health from the gods.
Many of you can see on the TV news what people do outside on Chinese New Year publicly. Well, this is what goes on in our household this morning. Mother lit candles and incense sticks in front of our chalcedony (agate) statue of Guanyin the Goddess of Mercy, and asked for good blessings, good health, safe travels and smooth work for the extended Chin household and all our friends (so that would include all of you : ))))
I wish you a Happy New Year 2019.
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It's designed by Charles Stephan and produced by Elfdoll. It's a tiny BJD girl pig and will only be made in 100 copies. I really love her!
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Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, West Kruiskade, Chinese New Year celebration, Dragon operators (uncut)
In Asia and urban centres with a sizeable Chinese population in the rest of the world, like Rotterdam, the Chinese New Year, or more general, Lunar New Year is celebrated.
It’s a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. This year the Year of the Pig was initiated. During last Saturday’s festival, the ‘street parade’ (organised on the West Kruiskade) attracted lots of attention. The ‘Lion’s dance’ and the ‘Dragon’s dance’were performed.
Shown here is the dragon dance. Chinese dragons are a symbol of China's culture, and they are believed to bring good luck to people, therefore the longer the dragon in the dance, the more success it will bring to the community. The dragons are believed to possess qualities that include high power, dignity, fertility, wisdom and auspiciousness. The appearance of a dragon is both fearsome and bold but it has a benevolent disposition, and it was an emblem to represent imperial authority. The movements in a performance traditionally symbolise historical roles of dragons demonstrating power and dignity.”
Source: mainly Wikipedia.
Making epic manoeuvres with a giant dragon is no mean feat. But the operators were dedicated and had great fun.
Happy Chinese New Year! Paper cuttings of 福 (Fu) meaning fortune, are a common decoration for the Chinese New Year. Fu is commonly hung upside down. The character for upside down (倒) is very similar to the character for "to arrive" (到). This is a way to say "fortune has arrived" with a visual pun of sorts.
#CNYMOC2019
So my new little girl has debuted a day early but then I'm a couple days late! But here is my cute little piggy girl who has a great sense of humor and we need that around here!!!! I've been at hospital all day Monday with my mom and not home for a couple days - so sorry it didn't dawn on me either she's not a Blythe but don't let her know she really believes she is :D Thanks for the sanity of Blythe a Day Everyone!!!! <3
Amazing night at the London Palladium for the Festival of Spring performance for the Chinese New Year. This is was the last event organised by the Chinatown association for this years new year of the pig celebrations.
Some of the performances were shown for the first time outside of China. The place was packed with a mixture of British and Chinese enjoying the entertainment.
Read more on my blog - www.andrewlalchan.com
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Tuesday 5 February 2019 (2019-02-05) will be Chinese/ Lunar New Year for the Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities around the world. The New Year will be the Year of the Pig, one of the 12 animals in the Chinese annual zodiac cycle.
Canada Post has issued a domestic and an international (seen here) stamp to celebrate the Year of the Pig. Interestingly, the character Zhu Bajie (猪八戒) is depicted. The name Zhu Bajie literally means the Pig's Eight Precepts or Pig's Eight Commandments. He is always seen with a horticultural rake, his supernatural weapon of choice.
Zhu Bajie is a major character in the classic 16th century Chinese novel called "Journey to the West" (西遊記). The novel is an extended and fictionalized account of the real and legendary pilgrimage of Tang dynasty (7th century) Buddhist monk Xuanzang who walked thousands of miles from China to the "Western Regions" (Central Asia and India) through the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to obtain Buddhist sacred texts (sūtras) and returned after many trials and dangers.
Journey to the West has been translated into many languages and there have been some pop culture media adaptations too.
Zhu Bajie is a half-pig, half-human creature and character who was originally a military commander (a super power) in charge of the Heavenly Army (which needed an army to fight off the evil spirits). However, he committed misdeeds including sexual harassment towards Goddess of the Moon (guess the "me too" movement is nothing new), so the Heavenly Jade Great Emperor banished him from the Heaven and he was sent down to the earth. During a reincarnation mishap, he became half-human and half-pig.
In any case, as part of his punishment or reform, the Goddess of Mercy instructed Zhu Bajie to accompany Buddhist monk Xuanzang, Sha Wujing and another fictional character the Monkey King to travel to India and Central Asia to bring back to China the Buddhist manuscripts.
In Journey to the West, Zhu Bajie's lazy, gluttonous and lustful nature was often more troubles than help to the dangerous pilgrimage, yet he was also still a fierce fighter when real dangers and demons were encountered.
While other characters obtained Buddhist enlightenment at the end of the story, Zhu Bajie was still too "earthly" to obtain that highest rank, but was rewarded as the Cleaner of the Altars (i.e. given the special privilege to finish off all the edible food offerings) at the Heavenly Altar!!
Shanghai's Pudong International Airport was reminding visitors it was Chinese New Year and pig centric.
Pudong International Airport opened in 1999 taking over the majority of international traffic from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.
Construction of the first phase of the new Shanghai Pudong International Airport began in October 1997, took two years to build.
The airport is 30 km (19 miles) east of Shanghai city centre. PVG has capacity to handle 80 million passengers annually.
Pudong has two terminals, 1 & 2, five runways and a satellite concourse with 83 gates.
PVG is the worlds 9th busiest airport by passenger volume.