The 26th January 2009 will be the Chinese New Year. To create good Feng Shui, clean your home and be aware of creating good luck for the year ahead.
Place three Chinese coins with a square hole in the centre (tied together with red cotton) in the southeast corner of the home. Other emblems of good luck are metal or clay bells placed in the northwest of your room; a metal or glass fish placed in the north west of your room; a china frog (usually with three legs and sitting on a bed of coins) placed in the northwest to attract career luck; and a statue of the Buddha which should be placed in the northwest to stimulate luck from heaven and to carry away bad energies. 2009 will be the Year of the Earth Ox, a year of grounded strength. New year's day should be celebrated with Chinese people to celebrate their New Year in traditional style, with blue and white china, lanterns and fortune cookies. If you cannot get to a Chinese Restaurant, make your own fortune cookies with fortune cards that offer good luck and happiness throughout the year ahead. The Chinese New Year falls usually on the second new moon after the winter solstice, therefore between 21st January and 20th February. This date should include cleaning the home and buying gifts for friends. Often money is given in red packages or envelopes are lucky as is the number 8. Celebrations include lantern lighting, lion dances, firework displays and door to door visits. Book you place at your favourite Chinese restaurant. Wear your favourite red dress or shirt to bring in good luck (definitely avoid wearing black and white as these are the colours associated with death). Order a seafood platter, with prawns and oysters and an edible seaweed salad and finish the evening off by playing cards or board games.
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Wendy Stokes (c)
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