Commission pieces completed! These banners will be used in the Lion Dances performed by the Jow Ga Shaolin Institute where I take my TaiChi classes.

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picture a day: feb 2 https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/picture-a-day-feb-2/

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Happy Year of the Snake from #Vancouver, all you good people of #mastodon! Let's make it a good one! Sending out nothing but love and the best strongest healing waves of health, happiness, prosperity, and good fortune in all your quests and endeavours! #TrinityScottie #YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #DogsOfMastodon #DavidLamPark #FalseCreek

Happy Lunar New Year!

If you were born in the year of the snake, be careful! 2025 is your Ben Ming Nian—a year traditionally believed to bring bad luck due to a conflict with Tai Sui, the God of Age 🐉

Don't worry, wearing red through the year should help you fight off the bad luck 🔴

Learn more about 2025 The Year of the Snake here: https://chinesenewyear.net/lunar-new-year-2025-guide-year-of-the-snake/

#LunarNewYear #NewYear #HappyNewYear #ChineseNewYear #Fediverse

This lunar new year eve, I am usually home in Singapore.

I am seven years old, and I wake up to the smell of roasted chilli, poached chicken, and cabbage soup.

There’s a bustle in the kitchen. My grandpa is stirring a pot, making his signature chilli paste that we all won’t eat our food without. My grandma is fussing over the roast duck, soy sauce chicken and whole fish and prawns.

I walk into the kitchen, in search of a snack. No matter how busy they are, they always have time to feed me.

Have some hae jor, beancurd rolls stuffed with pork, shrimp and chestnuts. Have a bit of everything.

My grandma calls me her ‘little baby mouse’, because I eat so slowly and carefully.

I watch TV until my cousins arrive. I put on my good clothes (but I have to be forced to do it). I greet everyone: first in Teochew, then Mandarin, then English.

Happy new year! Happy new year! Happy new year!

Eat, rub my tummy, smell everything, laugh and poke my grandpa’s tummy. I do that every day, but especially on lunar new year, he is especially jovial and happy. I tell him he looks like a fat Buddha, and he laughs.

If you hold your chopsticks that way, ah girl, you are going to move very far away from home. Very far away from me.

How right he was.

#LunarNewYear

Happy #LunarNewYear! We are entering the Year of the Dragon.

So, I wrote a blog post of my favorite dragon folktales and legends where dragons are friendly and helpful. Or even falling in love ❤️

Read here:
https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2024/02/firendship-love-and-dragons-lunar-new.html

#dragon #YearOfTheDragon #folklore #folktales #storytelling