Asia

Art I Love ~ Hua Qian Gu

Chinese Lantern Festival

According to traditional custom, today is the Chinese lantern festival! It’s a day when they light the paper lanterns and send them up as symbols of hopes and dreams for the future. A beautiful tradition!

Always on the first full moon of the new lunar year.

Lanterns are available for about ￥5, and come in many colors! Mine was red 🙂

Lights are shining!

Fireworks blasting!

Happy Lantern Festival!

Art I Love ~ Woman Artist

“Woman Artist” by Vasylina

Chinese Lunar Calendar

Introduction to the Chinese Lunar Calendar
and Origin of the Zodiac Animals

Happy Year of the Monkey!

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新年快乐 (Happy New Year)

新年快乐 (Xīn Nián Kuài Lè) means Happy New Year in Chinese 🙂 This year is the Year of the Monkey! I think tomorrow I will try to add a description of the Chinese animals theory to DeceptivelyBlonde 🙂

Anyway, Happy New Year from us in China! Here’s one of the beautiful fireworks that lit up the sky on New Year’s Eve 🙂 No one does firework like the Chinese! They create amazing works of art with fireworks and it is a truly beautiful part of their culture ❤

Firework