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Chinese Lunisolar Calendar With Zodiac Fortune

SmallCheese — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:10:02 +0000

How could I explain “luck” if I don’t believe in God? But, I can’t really prove there is God. Can you explain that to me?

Well, forget about the confusion and troublesome question here. If you’re a ‘fan’ of fortune or luck that predicted by Chinese Zodiac, here is a Chinese Lunisolar calendar with Zodiac fortune advice for your days!

This Chinese Lunisolar calendar is also useful to most typical Chinese who seeks the correspondence of Chinese Lunar calendar date in Gregorian calendar date. For example, to plan annual leaves for next Chinese New Year or the coming Qing Ming, Mid Autumn festival, etc.

Chinese Lunisolar Calendar for the convenient of finding Chinese Lunar date in Gregorian date and Zodiac fortune advice of the date.

I’ve just received this Flash animation today. My father found it really useful, as he’s so keen on Zodiac fortune notes.

Apart from that, when a mouse pointer rest on the Gregorian month, a pop-up displays the characteristics of respective Western Zodiac of the month.

Also, it reports some of the international festival / celebration too, e.g. Labor Day, Earth Day, etc.

So, I guess most of you will find this calendar useful as well:

Good luck to all of you and may all the best be with you!

What Is You Favorite Chinese Breakfast

SC Pretty — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:09:25 +0000

I’ve just read a funny and creative Gmail junk to share with you. The sender said he is going to introduce us a delicious Chinese Dim Sum for breakfast, and will ask a question at the end of the introduction (via pictures).

Here we go, the delicious Dim Sum – Juicy Xiao Long Bao:

Question: How many Xiao Long Bao you’ve seen?

Don’t know right? Because you were focusing on the Da Bao and not the Juicy Shanghai style Xiao Long Bao!

The Shortest Chinese Pairing Poem

SmallCheese — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:25:27 +0000

In conjunction of the coming Chinese New Year celebration, the pairing poem is always most wanted among business community.

Some of the most seen pairing poem are such as [ 生意兴隆通四海财源茂盛达三江 ] ; [ 源运昌隆增百福富业振兴获千祥 ] ; [ 天增岁月人增寿春满乾坤福满堂 ] …

I don’t really know the correct word to translate “对联” in English. In short, the traditional Chinese New Year celebration will paste two pieces of red colour paper on the left and right hand side of the main door, written with pairing poem that spell good luck for the family!

But, do you ever know there is one shortest, most motivated, meaningful pairing poem? This is the one – only one word on the left and one up-side-down on the right to form the pairing poem:

I recall that this pairing poem was written for the spring celebration during World War II (Japanese invaded China during that time). During that most frustrated period of life, nobody really had good mood neither for the celebration nor to write good words.

Someone, however, wrote that shortest pairing poem on the main door to motivate every Chinese who can read:

Please stand up to live (fight) and not bend your knee to beg for life!

So, are you motivated for better 2008 as well?

My favourite pairing poem – 田园风光绝好农家岁月更新!

Happy Chinese New Year and Good Luck!