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BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake
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Subject: BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake From: keberoxu Date: 28 Jan 25 - 06:47 PM It's the lunar/Chinese New Year. Have a happy one. |
Subject: RE: BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Jan 25 - 08:02 PM I came down to breakfast this morning, and my wife had a rubber snake on the table. Scared the shit outta me. |
Subject: RE: BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 28 Jan 25 - 09:14 PM A friend & his wife are in Chengdu, Central West China, celebrating with the New Year with her family & sent a very lengthy extract from an unknown site - here's a bit of it. Don't think I' like to be woken with firecrackers! ~~~~~~~~~~ 2025 Chinese New Year Day is on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Chinese New Year Day - 2025 Year of the Snake What is the animal sign for Chinese New Year 2025? 2025 is the year of the Green Wood Snake. 2025 Chinese New Year Day is on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, in the China time zone. The Chinese New Year's Eve is on Tuesday, January 28, 2025. These are national holidays in China. Usually, the New Year holiday is at least five days long from Chinese New Year's eve. Plus Saturday and Sunday, the legal holiday could expand to seven days long. Chinese New Year Day - Celebration Traditionally, the first thing to do right after waking up in the morning of Chinese New Year Day in China is to open the door and set off firecrackers. Today, many Chinese don't sleep on Chinese New Year's Eve and wait for Chinese New Year Day coming. As soon as midnight is passed, people at home should be able to hear the sound of firecrackers one after another. The sound of firecrackers and fireworks tells people the New Year has arrived. People offer New Year's greetings while they are watching TV shows, enjoying the fireworks, or gambling. They have to send greetings to parents or eldest members in the house first, then to siblings. The most popular greeting is Gong Xi Fa Chai ???? (Cantonese pronounces Gong Hay Fat Choy 2025), which means "congratulations and make a fortune." The firecracker and congratulations greeting are from the story of animal Nian. "Make a fortune" is to wish people rich because the Chinese love to talk about money. In order to have better luck in the coming year, some Chinese go to the temple at midnight to ask for good luck from deities right after the new year comes. Some Chinese families change the new clothes right after midnight or the Rat hour (11 p.m. to 1 a.m.) on Chinese New Year's Eve. Then they choose the lucky hour from the Chinese Farmer's Calendar to worship spirits and ancestors with candles, fruit, rice cake, tea, long noodle, and candies. The purpose of this worship is to tell spirits and ancestors the New Year arrives. At the end of the ceremony, they will open the door, select a lucky money direction to explode the firecrackers, which means to get rid of old bad stuff and welcome the new coming. Chinese families give the Red Envelope to children at this time, then the children go to bed. After dawn, it's time to say Chinese New Year greetings to neighbours, friends, co-workers, and relatives. Before the time of the telephone, school teachers will go back to school to greet each other. Government employees will go back to the office to say happy New Year. Now many people say Gong Xi Fa Chai by phone or send the greeting by e-mail. On Chinese New Year's day, the Chinese eat breakfast without meat from the New Year's Eve leftover. At noon, they have to worship the Spirit of the House with simple animal sacrifices, vegetables, and rice. In the evening, they worship family ancestors again with a full dinner food ... |
Subject: RE: BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake From: keberoxu Date: 30 Jan 25 - 07:08 PM My brief study of the Chinese system of Five Elements reminds me that Wood, as an element, is associated with the organ, the liver, and the emotion that goes with it is anger. Maybe we are in for a bilious year. |
Subject: RE: BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake From: Mrrzy Date: 31 Jan 25 - 02:08 PM Green wood snake, to boot! Mamba? |
Subject: RE: BS: happy Year of the Wood Snake From: keberoxu Date: 02 Feb 25 - 05:08 PM The Chinese roster of animals does not include the hippopotamus. Too bad, as pygmy hippos are all the rage now, with the viral success of a baby pygmy hippo at a Thailand zoo. |