Very nice 👍
Many different interpretations of dragons, according to Chinese mythology during the Qing dynasty, dragons are composed of 9 different animals.
A dragon has the face of a horse, body of a snake, antlers of a deer, scales of a dish, beard of a goat, claws of a chicken/phoenix, mane of a lion, eyes of a snake, and the nose of a dog.
The number 9 is associated with dragons, and nine 九 is also a homonym for longevity.
Two very compelling arguments 😏
What innovation 🐔
A whole head is quite a celebration 😱 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 🥳
In a nutshell, Bigger holidays = more food and celebration of more spirits
On the shrine doors are Menshen (門神, they keep the bad spirits out, there's a story about them in Journey to the West! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshen
Oh it gets better! Every household has a "kitchen/stove god" (灶神) which reports to the jade emperor/God (玉皇大帝) 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 👀, 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 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uJbp8d_d9c&t=1 this might be fun 👍
Lunar new year is a whole rabbit hole 🕳️ no one can point to where most traditions come from and everyone grows up with different folktales 😂
To welcome the new year, households will hang 春聯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 🥳). 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 龍 has many to play with. (It also flies, breathes fire, and hangs out with the gods🤣). 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 🤭, right?
Common sayings are 恭喜發財 新年快樂. For your project, shove in 龍年吉祥 語 in Google and you'll find a bunch of sayings for the dragon year
The one I posted has a 謙卑 (humble) inside a dragon. 一飛沖天 translates roughly to "fly straight up to the sky/heavens"
"stay humble, soar high"🥳
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I've had it ! Called 象拔蚌 in 🇹🇼
Space Battleship Yamamoto (1977) a bit dated, kinda campy. should be a hoot 🤣
Anyone have some movie and/or show recommendations for me and nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh to watch tonight?
Lesser-known titles preferred, but not required…
#AskNostr
Teahouse (1982)
Three generations of rug pulls
Just got a quarter pounder, ice coffee, medium fry, 6pcs chicken nuggets for ~$6 in 🇹🇼 too
2005年美國海軍做過了一個實驗，花了四個禮拜從早到晚用上了無數的飛彈炸彈在已退休不反擊的USS America (CV-66)的身上才落海。很驚人
現代的航母更大，擊沉它更難喔。2500km範圍也很大呢🤭 別忘記航母是會移動的
