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Celebrating Chinese New Year !

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February 9, 2005 is the first day of the Chinese new year ! (-_-) There are three ways to name a Chinese year: 1. By an animal. The new year is known as the Year of the Rooster. There are 12 animal names; so by this system, year names are re-cycled every 12 years 2. By its Former Name. The new year is the year of Yiyou. By this system, the Name of the Year is repeated and re-cycled every 60 years. 3. It is Year 4702 by Chinese calendar. Chun lian is a special type of Duilian, or couplet. It is used only during the Chinese New Year as part of its celebration. While duilian is permanent, chunlian is a temporary decoration to be placed on the entrance of the house, somewhat akin to Halloween and Christmas decorations. Duilian comprises of a couplet written on vertical strips of red paper in the best calligraphic style one can muster. The first (called upper) line is posted on the right side of the front door. The second (called lower) line is posted on the left side of the front door. In addition, a third horizontal piece may be posted across and on top the door. Typically, the chun lian writes an happy, hopeful, uplifting message about a better New Year to come, like the one on my collage : Word-for-word translation of above: Top (Horizontal across) : Whole Earth Returns Spring Left (Vertical) line : winter gone mountain clear water sparkles Right (Vertical) line: Spring comes bird sings flower fragrant During the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), it is traditional to decorate the homes with many New Year Graphics; the best of which are from Yangliuqing. (see an example below in the middle of my collage) Yanliuqing paintings were first produced between 1573 and 1620. I took the pictures on the right in Chinese restaurant Hang Chow in Arlon ! (-_-)

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sharky_

1:17AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

Very informative. Excellent capture of the chinese New Year. Aloha

Pierre59

4:53AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

Happy New Year the Chinese

soulofharmony

5:01AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

wonderful compostion.. beautifully captured excellent info.... happy new year in chinese.. born year of the rabbit hahah .... excellent

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Akinom

5:13AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

Happy New Year to the Chinese. An excellent presentation, Michel! Your shots of the Happy Buddha are just great! Have read a lot about the animal names of Chinese years and find the describtion is very fitting to the people born in this year... always compare wink BTW I'm a dragon... LOL won't tell you the element so you cannot guess which year winkwink

tvernuccio

5:35AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

happy new year!!! beautiful photograph that i so much enjoy!!! thanks so much for sharing the meaning!!! I was also born in the year of the rabbit like Nikki! funny, kemal has always called me "bunny-rabbit" and a term of endearment!!! Anyway, thanks for this! makes me smile and think of my grandfather. We used to always go to China Town (in San Francisco) and i have great memories of that!

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sossy

6:43AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

a powerful colored impression! thanks for the interesting lesson! ;o)))

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marybelgium

11:21AM | Wed, 09 February 2005

Happy New Year ! well done !

fractalwoody

1:20PM | Wed, 09 February 2005

Chicken to night gets a different dimension in this new year of the Rooster!! Ah... chicken to night ...... is a now a days home made, fast food concept in Holland :D By the way, good idea to put an explanation like this on the site!!

Amicale

3:03AM | Thu, 10 February 2005

Tr joli Michel!!!! mais ce n'est pas ce que je pre!....

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CDBrugg

3:13PM | Fri, 11 February 2005

Tr bonne imitation de beaucoups de publications/posters chinois. Quand au style, on aime ou on n'aime pas.


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