So I see all these dragon designs in Bangkok for Lunar New Year. But not yet in #bitcoin design. Be the change βοΈπ€£π
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This is very nice. Since this is my year. Iβm downloading this for a 1000 sats. Fair?
Yeah there will be more this week βοΈ
And feel free to use it π€
Would you be okay with me making stickers out of this? Zapped you, love the design!
Yes would be cool. But I will send you the High Resolutions end of the week. I make more dragons this weekβοΈβοΈ Also special Nostr one π€
Oooh more dragons! I can print the whole series as a special bitpopart new years pack!
I don't necessarily need a super high res version since the physical stickers are relatively small. But if you do have versions readily available with transparent backgrounds (or even just a solid color background) that would save me a ton of time!
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Yeah we do it good (so send you the perfect files) HR, PNGs without background. I expect to have around 10 more dragons π I make one big Lunar New Year art work and all dragons can be used separate. So you can choose the one you like or take it all. I am just happy to see stickers from it βοΈπ€
Your art style is PERFECT for making stickers from!
If you want, DM me a mailing address and I'll send a set over to you! I can probably only send one or two sets though since you're international. But if I can keep it under 1 or 2 ounces (need to look up specifically) I can send to you cheaply as regular mail. Once the letter gets bulky/heavy, shipping costs are crazy. π΅βπ«
Jep cool we will work things out. First creating more βοΈπ²π
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And we know that dragons are OG stackers π
"stay humble, soar high"π₯³
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Is that what the chinese characters say? Like to add something in chinese text like that to the big Lunar New Year artwork. So let me know.
To welcome the new year, households will hang ζ₯θ―s (spring couplets) on their doors. The season's greetings are written on red pieces of paper because according to tradition, red color spreads good vibes and scare away the bad spirits. (Firecrackers do the same π₯³). There's so many lunar new year traditions and it's different everywhere. Taiwan has a lot of fun because of the diversity of Chinese culture, immigrants across southeast Asia, and even our own traditions; all sorts of traditions are followed around the island.
The couplets often follow the theme of the zodiac year, people come up with new ones all the time. Chinese is full of homonyms, and the character for dragon ιΎ has many to play with. (It also flies, breathes fire, and hangs out with the godsπ€£). Lunar New Year is the time of year where calligraphy skills come into play, because come on, spirits don't give out good fortune to those with bad penmanship π€, right?
Common sayings are ζεηΌθ²‘ ζ°εΉ΄εΏ«ζ¨. For your project, shove in ιΎεΉ΄εη₯₯ θͺ in Google and you'll find a bunch of sayings for the dragon year
The one I posted has a θ¬ε (humble) inside a dragon. δΈι£ζ²ε€© translates roughly to "fly straight up to the sky/heavens"
Thanks love this information. I am in Bangkok around china town and love to learn these things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uJbp8d_d9c&t=1 this might be fun π
Lunar new year is a whole rabbit hole π³οΈ no one can point to where most traditions come from and everyone grows up with different folktales π
Cool. Thanks. So there is also where the gods on the door in the shrine come from. Love it to learn more about it. Thanks π 
Oh it gets better! Every household has a "kitchen/stove god" (ηΆη₯) which reports to the jade emperor/God (ηη倧εΈ) on how the household behaved over the year. The jade emperor determines the household's fortune for the coming year off of this new years eve report π, so households are sure to butter him up by decorating his effigy and preparing offerings before he heads to the heavens and hands over his report π
Haha so cool. Is this also why for example in Vietnam but also saw it here in Bangkok they have a whole table full of food with a pig head on it?
A whole head is quite a celebration π± seems like they know how to have a good time there! Common traditions are to give thanks on the 15th day of each lunar month by offering to the gods before consuming the food, it's like saying grace before a meal only the ceremony explicitly gives the spirits some time to munch on the food. Candles and incense are used to welcome the spirits to come enjoy π₯³
In a nutshell, Bigger holidays = more food and celebration of more spirits
Thanks for all the info. Love it π Every culture is so much fun to learn from.
On the shrine doors are Menshen (ιη₯, they keep the bad spirits out, there's a story about them in Journey to the West! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshen
Great!
I mean, the dragon in chinese lore does represent wealth... so... o.o
Be the Change⦠yeah like this one