Re: Happy New Year!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COLLEAGUES AND GUESTS FORUM HAPPY NEW YEAR ON THE EASTERN CALENDAR!
The New Year has come on the eastern calendar. In China, celebrations will be held until January 28, and this week the people there have long been nicknamed the "golden". On weekends, without exception, the Chinese are eager to see their relatives. Last night was probably the loudest in the whole past year - throughout the country, people blew up dozens of tons of pyrotechnics
The debate about how to be the symbol of the upcoming year, unfolded on the pages of Chinese newspapers in the last days of the outgoing year, and the dragon immediately appeared in a whirlpool of political debate. After all, he is also a symbol of the Chinese nation, which means that the image of the dragon is the image of China. The fashion of recent years is to depict all animals of the Chinese zodiac without exception “white and fluffy”. This is both commercially viable and generally in the spirit of the times.
The dragon, not adapted to modern tastes, is such a creepy monster that inspires respectful awe in the souls. That is what the Chinese patriots would like to see him: they say, enough cartoon dragons, it's time to get up from his knees. The liberal public objects: all these claws and fangs are a symbol of feudal, imperial China. “Someone will decide that we have the Middle Ages and obscurantism here,” the Chinese liberals say.
The designers of New Year's toys decided this difficult task as best they could, and as a result, everyone has his own dragon. But underwear of red color people, as always, snapping up "with a bang." According to tradition, those who were born under the sign of the Dragon will wear it all year for luck.
“I was born in the Year of the Dragon, and 12 years ago - also in the Year of the Dragon - I retired, and I do not complain about fate. I live for my pleasure, I travel - last year I visited you in Russia, I visited Moscow and Petersburg. So everything is in order with the dragon, ”said a middle-aged resident of the Middle Kingdom.
“In China, it is generally accepted that the dragon brings good luck. It symbolizes strength, wisdom. And in general, it is a symbol of our people, ”says a resident of Beijing.
In the evening, on the rapidly empty streets, belated passers-by rush to buy gifts for relatives and friends, and New Year's Beijing winks with them with colorful lights and festive illumination lights. Shops and restaurants will close soon for a week - hundreds of thousands of migrants who cleaned Beijing, stood behind the shelves and did other equally necessary, but low-paid work, had already left for the small homeland.
In the last hours of the year, huge flowers of the festive salute are revealed in the sky, at midnight in Beijing it was as bright as day. The Year of the Dragon is coming - the creature is not fully understood, and therefore quite unpredictable. However, astrologers agree on one thing: if the dragon is a symbol of the Middle Kingdom, then the coming year should definitely become the year of China.
Of the twelve characters of the Chinese zodiac, the dragon is the only mythical creature. It is not surprising that rumor ascribes to him the most fantastic qualities. And yet, in Chinese mythology, the dragon is more likely good than evil, which means that in the new year you need to expect only the good.
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